Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] set [adv prt] for [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother wept to see Father 's state , and proposed that we set out for Chiguana , the nearest town where we might expect to find a hospital , immediately . |
| 2 | ‘ On March 19 and I set off for Birmingham and a hotel close to the airport . |
| 3 | ‘ She said , ‘ This is what love is for — I 'm coming over , ’ and she set off for Rocamar and arrived at breakfast next day . ’ |
| 4 | Our escorting Wellington was delayed due to phenomenal sandstorms in the Delta area , and it was only on 18 March that it arrived and we set off for Benina to refuel before the sea leg to Malta . |
| 5 | But Denis 's hopes took flight with the break-up of the Soviet empire and he set off for Russia this summer . |
| 6 | For about six weeks before she set off for France , the long way via Cape Town , they made love feverishly . |
| 7 | His political position in the USA had , however , begun to weaken even before he set out for Paris . |
| 8 | and eventually hauled me aboard as we set off for Blackpool . |
| 9 | HOUNSLOW will be defending an unbeaten record in the European Cup-Winners ' Cup when they set off for Holland today to compete in this season 's final stages . |
| 10 | Maggie was not cheerful as they set off for Granada . |
| 11 | Louise kept up a flow of bright chatter as they set off for Wigmore Street . |
| 12 | Known as ‘ Puffin' since childhood because of his hooked nose , he had worked with Baird on four previous films and had just finished making The Millionairess , starring Sophia Loren , when he set off for Sweden in October 1960 . |
| 13 | Until 1190 , they were kept up-to-date ; but in that year , Count Henry II of Champagne took one copy of the list with him when he set out for Outremer , and this may have inhibited his officials from making further changes in the copy left behind at Troyes . |
| 14 | Perhaps we might have a look at things , at this stage , through the eyes of young Benjamin Titford , the youngest surviving son , left motherless at nine years old ; waving his big brother William Charles goodbye as he set off for London soon afterwards ; watching brother John cough himself into an early grave ; listening to endless conversations about high prices , shortages , and a war across the channel ; dragged out of his bed in the middle of the night to cries of ‘ Fire ! ’ and ‘ Flood ! ’ ; struggling to keep warm every winter ; watching his father die of a long illness — these experiences made his childhood , in modern terms , an awful , albeit a dramatic one . |