Example sentences of "and set [adv prt] towards " in BNC.
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| 1 | I parked my car at around midday and set out towards the Press tent . |
| 2 | Clare went immediately to pay the bill for the stone , and set out towards Shaston , where he found Mrs Durbeyfield and her children living in a small house . |
| 3 | Randolph , smiling from ear to ear , quickly dressed into warm clothes and set out towards the toy factory . |
| 4 | Before he could close it the crowd swarmed past him in their hundreds and set off towards the castle at a trot . |
| 5 | She took his arm , and they turned their backs upon the wreckage , and set off towards their home . |
| 6 | Alec slipped by me and set off towards the changing room at a sprint . |
| 7 | Eventually the little bus was summoned again , and we jumped in thankfully and set off towards the plane , only to grind to a halt at Operations again . |
| 8 | Mary Godwin and Clairmont got out early when they ran away at 16 with Mary 's lover Percy , had themselves rowed to France overnight , and set off towards Switzerland on foot . |
| 9 | By the time we had driven to Port Eynon , the wind had really picked up but not easily deterred , we abandoned the car and set off towards the cliffs . |
| 10 | I then got into a tracksuit , donned a newish pair of expensive running-shoes , and set off towards Wimbledon Common . |
| 11 | They mounted the white dune and set off towards town square and church , past a few white cottages . |
| 12 | He chuckled quietly and set off towards the feeding animals . |
| 13 | But He hummed a little tune , cheery as a plague pit , and — pausing only to extract the life from a passing mayfly , and one-ninth of the lives from a cat cowering under the fish stall ( all cats can see into the octarine ) — Death turned on His heel and set off towards the Broken Drum . |