Example sentences of "[pron] set off for the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Before I set off for the station for the train to Puno , I loaded up with imodium to seal my loose , nervous bowels ; folded my chain and felt its weight in my hand . |
2 | It was a little confusing to find ourselves setting off for the summits of the Viluyos barely an hour after the decision to do so . |
3 | Mohammed came with us to Taroudant where Aziz organised the Tichka end ( his patch ) and we set off for the mountains . |
4 | In the morning providentially we set off for the frontier , and there to my great delight I saw the familiar face of Mr Derrick Robinson , Rhodesia 's Assistant Commissioner of Police , standing beside a BMW motor car which was to convey me to Salisbury . |
5 | A young attendant in a blue uniform respectfully opened the door , and as soon as Luce had been settled into the grey suede luxury of the front passenger-seat they set off for the mainland . |
6 | So they follow their pseudo-parents as they set off for the village shops , until they feel themselves getting too far from the ‘ nest ’ , and then break off to return to safety . |
7 | He is in London with Jacob , his wife Judy and daughter Julia , 10 , and before they set off for the Odeon , Leicester Square , last night , he said : ‘ None of us would be here today without Jake 's idea . ’ |
8 | Side by side , a matching pair , both in their best clothes , they set off for the police station on Royal Hill . |
9 | He gets up early in the morning , saddles his ass , cuts the wood for the sacrifice , and taking two young servants and Isaac with him , he sets off for the place of which God has told him . |
10 | Checking his watch , he set off for the hilltop once more . |
11 | As he set off for the airport Lewis remembered that he had told Adam from the first that only trouble could come from a person of his youth and inexperience inheriting a big house and land of the dimensions of Wyvis Hall . |
12 | He set off for the Canal Turn in glorious isolation while behind him the rest of the field manically tried to salvage some hope from the disaster . |
13 | The aircraft-carrier Clemenceau , though it set off for the Gulf and its movements were followed initially by Le Monde , returned to Toulon in October after a 55-day voyage . |