Example sentences of "to set [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked as if she were about to set off for a provincial cocktail party , an office party of female executives . |
| 2 | A MOTHER has condemned thieves who stole the wheels off the family car just before her cancer victim daughter was to set off for a hospital check up . |
| 3 | It was a suspiciously long letter for someone who seldom wrote any , and when Rain was waiting to set off for the office he was still tapping away at it . |
| 4 | A final technical point on audio versus video recording : it takes no longer to set up for a simple video recording than it does to position a microphone for an audio recording . |
| 5 | Henry II had five sons who were suspicious and envious of each other , but three of them died before Henry died in the summer of 1189 , and all his possessions passed to Richard , who had pledged himself to set out for the Holy Land on the Third Crusade . |
| 6 | The next time they are able to gather together enough courage to set out for the supermarket they may get only as far as point B before they have had enough , anticipating more extreme levels of anxiety if they continue . |
| 7 | On a number of occasions , I have been glad to set out for the hon. Member in response to his questions in the House detailed information about the contents of the computer records and how many are held on the system at any one time . |
| 8 | They had been about to set out for the main bridge when he had said : |