Example sentences of "[conj] setting [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is probably a murderer himself ; the lightmindedness of his retrospective half-confirmations and half-denials is oddly disgusting ; and for him killing people is no more doing something than sleeping with little girls or setting off for the North Pole . |
| 2 | There was time only to grab a piece of burnt toast before jumping into her car and setting off for London . |
| 3 | He recognizes in Raskolnikov a fellow-struggler , and repeatedly he says that the two of them are birds of a feather ; but he also bids him farewell with a pointed ‘ You to the right and I to the left , or the other way round if you like ’ towards the end of their final meeting , because setting off for America , unlike the North Pole , while it may or may not amount to doing anything ( Crime and Punishment does n't raise the question ) marks a parting of their ways . |
| 4 | Watercolour would never have dried and I would have died of exposure whilst setting up for oils . |
| 5 | Ideally tanks should be as large as is possible when setting up for large fish ( not only cichlids ) . |