Example sentences of "set [adv prt] for london " in BNC.

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1 Miss Harker set off for London with her young charge two days later .
2 Perhaps we might have a look at things , at this stage , through the eyes of young Benjamin Titford , the youngest surviving son , left motherless at nine years old ; waving his big brother William Charles goodbye as he set off for London soon afterwards ; watching brother John cough himself into an early grave ; listening to endless conversations about high prices , shortages , and a war across the channel ; dragged out of his bed in the middle of the night to cries of ‘ Fire ! ’ and ‘ Flood ! ’ ; struggling to keep warm every winter ; watching his father die of a long illness — these experiences made his childhood , in modern terms , an awful , albeit a dramatic one .
3 This Act of 1806 may well have given young Ben the final push he needed : in that or the following year he packed his bags for good , waved his loving sisters a fond farewell , and set off for London , fame and fortune .
4 Frustrated , he set off for London .
5 When they set off for church he set off for London , driving fast .
6 In England and Wales these lessons were taken further through the creation of a series of urban development corporations — first set up for London 's Docklands and Merseyside , and later extended to a number of other areas , including the Black Country , Trafford Park , Teesside , Salford , Tyne and Wear , Cardiff Bay and Sheffield .
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