Example sentences of "set [adv] for [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Did n't you even stop to consider that , before you set off for an evening drive ? ’
2 I remarked to my friend , ‘ You 'd have to wait for a long time to get a train from here , ’ he smiled and we both set off for the youth hostel down the road .
3 Side by side , a matching pair , both in their best clothes , they set off for the police station on Royal Hill .
4 Oag has just returned from Tokyo , and will set off for a climbing exhibition in Grenoble in a few days .
5 The first should consist of short courses for teachers brought about by expanding the teachers ' centres set up for the Nuffield mathematics and science projects , and should include a one-term secondment in every seven years .
6 But they set out for the Town Hall none the less .
7 Later that day , approximately 3,000 students gathered at ‘ Tianda ’ , Tianjin University from where they set out for the city centre shouting the familiar slogans of the movement .
8 The last day had been set aside for a hunting trip , a full day out in the field , putting into practice , hopefully , all we had learned .
9 However , money has been set aside for a refurbishment programme across the group 's 30 hotels .
10 An addition to Rotterdam 's World Trade Center was built in 1986–87 and one part of it was set aside for a V.I.P. entertainment suite .
11 The committee also believes that time should be set aside for the trial disposal and subsequent recovery of radioactive waste ( which is the practice in the United States and Canada ) .
12 Up in the ‘ Fish Tank ’ is an area set aside for the Inlay Operator , still many years away from his grander title of Electronic Effects Designer .
13 It 's just basically set up for a rape scene .
14 We kept guard against the security forces and helped in the communal kitchen which was set up for the support committee .
15 The residency was set up for the Oxfordshire Area Health Authority by the City Gallery Arts Trust
16 Norway was of course seeded last in FIFA 's set up for the world cup ( no surprise as FIFA 's seeding is just base on recent world cup 's ) .
17 THREE or four times a month a Royal Bank lorry laden with 4 tonnes of waste paper pulls out of Drummond House and sets off for a paper mill in Fife .
18 He is probably a murderer himself ; the lightmindedness of his retrospective half-confirmations and half-denials is oddly disgusting ; and for him killing people is no more doing something than sleeping with little girls or setting off for the North Pole .
19 There was a breakfast room set aside for the train party where a piece of the mystery would unravel each morning .
20 After meeting the Soviet culture minister , and the musical director of the Bolshoi opera , Mr Palmer set off for a cellar club-cum-recording studio and gallery to hear a folk singer break the musical mould and , hopefully , erase the memory of the song ( ‘ I Belong To … ’ )
21 On the contrary , all seemed set fair , and when they had loaded the packing-cases on to the cart Matey and McAllister set off for the church hall , to lay out the stall , to have everything ready for the afternoon 's visitors , Dr Neil having promised to come along to help them .
22 Early that afternoon , as soon as she could get away from a lunch with colleagues from her department , Loretta set off for the Sunday Herald building .
23 At matches he had to be watched like a hawk in case he wriggled out of his headcollar , and set off for the tea tent , where his doleful yellow face and black-ringed eyes could coax sandwiches and cake out of the most stony-hearted waitress .
24 He set off for the Canal Turn in glorious isolation while behind him the rest of the field manically tried to salvage some hope from the disaster .
25 She combed her hair , applied her make-up and set off for the Post Office .
26 This is an important tier within the complicated government structure set up for the health service , with responsibilities for the allocation of resources and for strategic planning .
27 As with all guitar noise problems , this effect is most prevalent when the amp is very loud , or set up for an overdrive sound .
28 This time our hero Kevin ( Culkin ) gets on the wrong plane as he and his family set out for a Christmas break in Miami .
29 She had slammed the door as she set out for the Dallam wedding , leaving Odette in tears .
30 In 1980 McDevitt and an accomplice dressed up as Federal Express employees and set out for the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls , New York .
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