Example sentences of "[be] setting [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | David 's application was successful and along with nine other students he will shortly be setting off for one of eight specially selected Earthwatch projects for two weeks of hard work , learning and fun . |
| 2 | Mr Harris , 51 , and his wife were setting out for church in Lisburn , Co Antrim . |
| 3 | The taxi driver who left us at the station , enchanted by the idea that we were setting off for the source of the Nile , refused to accept any fare . |
| 4 | At Westons cidermill in Much Marcle , Herefordshire three hundred revellers are setting off for the apple orchards.They 're following in the footsteps of their pagan ancestors in the hopes of ensuring a bumper harvest . |
| 5 | If you are setting out for Shrewsbury tomorrow , so must Saint Winifred . |
| 6 | Your employer 's contributions to the scheme represent the money he is setting aside for your pension and other benefits . |
| 7 | Another man in another village was setting off for the fields , his hoe over his shoulder . |
| 8 | Sigarup was setting out for home . |
| 9 | As the Russian engineers were arriving in Scotland , Gordon Beattie from Scottish Nuclear 's Contracts and Purchasing department was setting out for Bulgaria for a six month secondment working at the Headquarters of the Bulgarian Energy Committee in Sofia . |
| 10 | According to Goscelin 's account of the translation of the relics of St Mildred from Thanet to St Augustine 's Canterbury , written in the late eleventh century , Cnut went to Canterbury as he was setting out for Rome and promised that he would allow the translation if he returned safely . |