Example sentences of "set [adv prt] towards [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I had only a vague idea where the circle was , but nevertheless set off towards it .
2 Moving with the easy gliding movement that is second nature Liessa sets off towards her own dragon , Laolith , who turns his great horsey head towards her .
3 She took his arm , and they turned their backs upon the wreckage , and set off towards their home .
4 I still thought she should be keener , however , so I knocked yet another half an ounce off her flying weight , until she was so eager that she set off towards me virtually the moment she saw me putting on the glove .
5 She set off towards what she imagined was the outer door , intending to walk in the open , but in a moment she had somehow lost herself in the maze of corridors .
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