Example sentences of "setting off for [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward Browning , a night club bouncer , called at his father 's home shortly before setting off for Scotland . |
| 2 | He recognizes in Raskolnikov a fellow-struggler , and repeatedly he says that the two of them are birds of a feather ; but he also bids him farewell with a pointed ‘ You to the right and I to the left , or the other way round if you like ’ towards the end of their final meeting , because setting off for America , unlike the North Pole , while it may or may not amount to doing anything ( Crime and Punishment does n't raise the question ) marks a parting of their ways . |
| 3 | Hardly a week passed without Anna Essinger setting off for London on a fund raising mission , invariably returning with promises to sponsor more refugee children . |
| 4 | There was time only to grab a piece of burnt toast before jumping into her car and setting off for London . |
| 5 | He had been a fisherman and told tales of the waters ‘ boiling ’ with seals near the Monach Isles , of canoeists setting off for St Kilda and of frequent sightings of porpoises , dolphins , basking sharks , even the occasional whale … |