Example sentences of "set [adv prt] for [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the rain stops I set off for a walk in the cool , after-rain air . |
| 2 | Before I set off for the station for the train to Puno , I loaded up with imodium to seal my loose , nervous bowels ; folded my chain and felt its weight in my hand . |
| 3 | In no sense could they be said to be members of industrial co-operatives : that is , of organisations set up for the manufacture of goods or the provision of services and wholly , or very largely , owned and ultimately controlled by those working in them . |
| 4 | Quite how to choose your destination is not clear : You might set out for a holiday in Virgo and end up in the Crab Nebula . |
| 5 | It was once more about five minutes before we set out for the alleyway behind the Love Me Tender massage parlor . |
| 6 | And when three men turned back just below camp 4 because of bad weather Harry Taylor climbed on … and then set out for the summit on his own . |
| 7 | They set out for the club toward the end of the afternoon . |
| 8 | I set out for an appointment in Sunderland on the day of its launch , full of hope as York station 's displays indicated the 11.34 InterCity to Newcastle was running ten minutes late . |
| 9 | ‘ Zoo Check ’ was set up for a number of reasons , here are its six aims : |
| 10 | A few months as a registrar in Nottingham , then he would be well set up for a job in the place of his choice . |
| 11 | Your machine may already have been set up for the size of paper you are using . |
| 12 | But real life , both human life and plant and animal life , is not set up for the benefit of spectators . |
| 13 | Trust fund accounts have been set up for the protection of clients and their , and their moneys . |
| 14 | High expectations are set up for the client to gradually learn to achieve deep feelings of heaviness and relaxation throughout the body . |
| 15 | The Bookish Portfolio , comprising shares in companies in the book business , was set up for The Bookseller in December 1981 , and liquidated last autumn . |
| 16 | Here are set out for the benefit of a person intending to become a candidate a few of the many matters which must be complied with in order that the candidature shall be declared valid by the returning officer . |
| 17 | Situations and characters to be portrayed can be set out for the learner on a worksheet . |
| 18 | He gets up early in the morning , saddles his ass , cuts the wood for the sacrifice , and taking two young servants and Isaac with him , he sets off for the place of which God has told him . |
| 19 | A white , middle-class widow sets out for the hinterland in search of her maid 's son ; but the police have found him first . |
| 20 | But in August , just before setting off for a month in Switzerland , he still hoped to have finished a draft of the third act by the end of the year . |
| 21 | The man giggled — a horrible noise — before setting off for the curtain at the back of the room . |
| 22 | The taxi driver who left us at the station , enchanted by the idea that we were setting off for the source of the Nile , refused to accept any fare . |
| 23 | Below : A conference of the Women 's Liberal Federation setting out for a tour of Blackpool and St. Annes in May 1926 , using six toastrack trams , here drawn up on both tracks at North Pier . |
| 24 | I 'd seen Chola and Mina setting out for the forest in the early morning , and three times during the day I 'd watched them coming back , stooped over and staggering under the weight of the enormous loads that spread across their backs , stretching three times broader than their shoulders and several feet above their heads . |
| 25 | Thirteen ships , led by two of Earl Siward 's , continued north past the estuary and were last seen setting round for the mouth of the Tay . |
| 26 | Malcolm Edwards , British Coal 's commercial director , told an electricity conference in London that the corporation was prepared to enter supply deals lasting eight years — the same period set down for the bulk of initial contracts between privatised electricity generators and distribution companies . |
| 27 | When the Dragons first eleven set off for the sun in a couple of weeks time they 'll be taking with them a pretty impressive record , just 2 defeats in the last seven seasons . |
| 28 | Val set off for the interior in the best of the hire cars available , a well worn seat with grudging breaks , and drove alone on empty roads through a barren and alien territory . |
| 29 | The colonel set off for the airport with the general in custody . |
| 30 | He got up and dressed as though in a trance , and set off for the Castle with the hangdog look of a condemned man . |