Example sentences of "[pers pn] set off for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They were always holding hands and he kissed her goodbye every day as she set off for work . ’ |
| 2 | For about six weeks before she set off for France , the long way via Cape Town , they made love feverishly . |
| 3 | There was a new sense of purpose in her step as she set off for the ‘ speeder . |
| 4 | She set off for Alès feeling comforted . |
| 5 | She set off for the second floor , but there was no police officer there . |
| 6 | ‘ She said , ‘ This is what love is for — I 'm coming over , ’ and she set off for Rocamar and arrived at breakfast next day . ’ |
| 7 | She set off for Monte Samana alone . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It started with his first kick , and keeping the machine as quiet as possible until clear of the village , he set off for Berkeley . |
| 10 | Next he set off for Jerusalem , then to Rome again , and back to England and London . |
| 11 | And so when he set off for home the red bitch was with him , loping along by his side . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ That fateful day he set off for work and their lives changed forever is etched on Wyn 's memory . |
| 15 | But Denis 's hopes took flight with the break-up of the Soviet empire and he set off for Russia this summer . |
| 16 | He set off for Ayr yesterday with five more under his belt and promptly won the first three races , two in photos . |
| 17 | Naturally I agreed , and he set off for paris immediately with Ted Church as the UK observer . |
| 18 | When it came time for him to be knighted by Henry I in Rouen , he set off for Normandy with a crowd of these young men about him . |
| 19 | When he had had his lunch , which he brought with him in the suitcase , a packet of salami sandwiches , a croissant with jam in it and a fruit-and-nut bar , he set off for West End Lane , to the Electricity Board and the Gas Board , to make inquiries about a chimney sweep , and put an advertisement for tenants in a newsagent 's window . |
| 20 | Frustrated , he set off for London . |
| 21 | Checking his watch , he set off for the hilltop once more . |
| 22 | He shivered a little as he set off for home . |
| 23 | Leaving Colonel Doughty-Wylie in charge of the Legation , he set off for Dire Dawa by caravan on 4 May and arrived in England on 15 June . |
| 24 | Unable to face his wife in the bungalow in High Park Avenue and fearful of meeting her in one of the shops if he hung about the town , he set off for another walk along the beach , striking out this time in the opposite direction from the one he 'd taken that morning . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He set off for Spain in August 1965 to film A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum with director Richard Lester . |
| 27 | When they set off for church he set off for London , driving fast . |
| 28 | One day he set off for Barnard Castle to address a meeting , but got so hopelessly drunk on the journey he was unable to speak on his arrival . |
| 29 | 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 . |