Example sentences of "set [vb base] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reluctantly , I hired a pea-green boat , and with my faithful Siamese cat ( Doc Wat Son ) I set sail for Nursery Isle . |
| 2 | And yesterday , after a week-long stay , 73 vessels , ranging from the massive Russian four-master the Sedov to the Boa Esperanca , a replica of Columbus 's boat , set sail for home . |
| 3 | The vessel had left Portugal in January , docked in Darwin , Australia , on March 8 , and set sail for East Timor on March 9 . |
| 4 | The fisherman cut their lines and set sail for port , but the sea serpent continued to follow them . |
| 5 | WE SET SAIL for Europe in the summer of 1948 — for Europe , and for war . |
| 6 | In 1928 an Indian graduate student , Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar , set sail for England to study at Cambridge with the British astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington , an expert on general relativity . |
| 7 | Yarnell decided to prove his point so he detached two aircraft carriers , the Saratoga and Lexington and a few destroyers from his battle fleet and set sail for Oahu in poor weather conditions , radio silence and no lights . |
| 8 | Furious , Richard hired thirty ships from the Marseilles merchants and set sail for Genoa , where Philip had arrived before him and promptly fallen ill . |