Example sentences of "[verb] set [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's either that or take the job the youth employment officer has set up for me . ’ |
| 2 | Your cousin Henry has set off for Alma Ata in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan , hoping to finance himself by selling articles to The Spectator , where he has asked me to use my influence . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | On this typical page of shooting script are given the essential directions needed to set up for each shot in a sequence . |
| 5 | I have a four foot tank which I was going to set up for Malawis , however , with the above in mind , what would you consider the best course of action : |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She and Ella had plenty of time before they needed to set off for school . |
| 8 | Supply control measures would also be introduced which would encourage set aside for cereals , lower milk quotas and place upper limits on sheep premia . |
| 9 | I mean , I do n't think Mary and Joseph would have set out for Bethlehem yet . |
| 10 | By this one Tutilo must have set out for Longner , and by this one he had returned , only to happen upon this grievous discovery along the way . |
| 11 | Persuading them to adhere to the doctrine of the Church of England , to persevere in that good old way ; … for having set up for Primitive Christianity , he counted Popery as well as Puritanism arrant novelty . |
| 12 | Freud compares taboos with the obsessional prohibitions that some neurotics had been observed to set up for themselves , and sometimes for those around them , such as the frequent need to wash their own hands before performing a task . |
| 13 | Although this disparity reflects the real world of budget limits , it could scupper the care programmes that the psychiatry department is meant to set up for seriously mentally ill patients and make planning for discharge more difficult . |
| 14 | The English girls , as I recall , were still faithfully standing by the camera we had set up for long shots , having been asked to press the button at appropriate moments when we were not in frame . |
| 15 | In Roirbak 's laboratory wing , Ari was watching a movie too , though of a slightly different nature to any Roirbak had set out for Nathan 's entertainment . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , I brought her the tray Mrs Porter had set out for her in the kitchen . |
| 17 | This is what I had set out for last week . ’ |
| 18 | Before Father Kendrick had set off for his new city parish — racial mix , boys ' club , mothers ' union , young people 's fellowship ; the proper challenge for a mildly high-church , ambitious young priest with one eye on a mitre — he had had a brief word about Beryl McBride . |
| 19 | The policeman had been genuinely pleased by the invitation , and the two had set off for the river . |
| 20 | When most of the dancers had set off for home , and Lucy had given Josie reason to assume that she 'd done the same , she sat in one of the empty offices for a while and then returned to the wardrobe department . |
| 21 | During the hours they had set aside for practising , such girls are whisked off to Neiman-Marcus , where they are instructed on the difference between Bill Blass and Geoffrey Beene with a degree of rigour reminiscent of their earliest scale-drumming days . |
| 22 | He stayed awake and after midnight he went to the room which Kate 's mother had set aside for his father to write about birds in . |
| 23 | I tabled a question asking how much the Government had set aside for bad debts , and the answer showed that not one penny had been set aside . |
| 24 | I just wanted to set out for you we do n't agree with the assessment on landscape impact on the A sixty four south . |
| 25 | Can you explain the cultural foundation that you have set up for this loan ? |
| 26 | THIS is a bit hard to understand but some audacious young men from Newcastle have set off for Europe in the company of Ermentrude the Cow from The Magic Roundabout . |
| 27 | ‘ But now it is up to the Catholic officials and the county to find the money from the £243,000 I have set aside for church school repairs . |
| 28 | This year I think it 's the first week in July we have set aside for this purpose . |