Example sentences of "setting out for [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are setting out for Shrewsbury tomorrow , so must Saint Winifred . |
| 2 | He urged holidaymakers to check with hotels before setting out for Llandudno , and for day-trippers to stay away this week-end . |
| 3 | Rosemary will be teaching others her skills in creating a market stall complete with special effects in the form of ‘ rosy ’ apples and ‘ muddy ’ parsnips at the Women 's Institute 's Denman College in Marcham before setting out for Staffordshire on a dolls-house holiday ! |
| 4 | Setting out for France again two years later , the king was described by the anonymous author of the Brut as leaving England with ‘ ordynaunce gadred and welle stuffyd , as longyd to such a ryalle Kinge ’ . |
| 5 | When first setting out for Basle , he had expressed the conviction that his grasp of life 's " true and essential problems " was already strong enough to meet the threat to his " philosophic sense " posed by academic specialization . |
| 6 | The note of personal ambition here is reminiscent of that zeal which the young professor-elect had felt , among other feelings , on setting out for Basle . |
| 7 | Murdock lost no time in setting out for London to take out a patent for his model . |
| 8 | ‘ Just caught your nippers apparently setting out for Siena , ’ Fosdyke said . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |