Example sentences of "[was/were] setting [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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1 | Mr Harris , 51 , and his wife were setting out for church in Lisburn , Co Antrim . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Another man in another village was setting off for the fields , his hoe over his shoulder . |
4 | Sigarup was setting out for home . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |