Example sentences of "[adv] set out for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just caught your nippers apparently setting out for Siena , ’ Fosdyke said . |
| 2 | As it turned out the final Report , published in 1889 after almost five years of investigation , did embody a number of recommendations regarding the education of deaf children in future Education Acts , thus setting out for the first time proper legislation with regard to compulsory entry , ages of admission , the length of education , the size of classes , and even that Principals/Headmasters of boarding institutions had to reside on the premises . |
| 3 | Dang and I finally set out for the village where she wanted to start the ‘ cottage industry ’ . |
| 4 | When news of this reached El Cid , he at once set out for his city but already in a matter of ten days , much of what he had achieved was undone . |
| 5 | Knowing the risk he was taking , he still set out for Peking : why ? |
| 6 | They had hesitated too long and were regarded with suspicion by those British officials who might have helped them but thought , perhaps , that two people who deliberately set out for Berlin in the last week of August 1939 deserved all that they got . |
| 7 | Such relative positions were clearly set out for me in chains of metaphoric relevance , with ‘ real polises ’ largely symbolized by the use of the body and its social and physical space . |
| 8 | In many ways the CPVE conforms very closely to the goals originally set out for the GCSE . |
| 9 | When voices started rising and violence seemed inevitable , Kalchu told me that it would n't be resolved for hours and , rather than waiting around in the cold on the off-chance of getting some meat , we might as well set out for home . |
| 10 | With the bishop of Winchester he presented Kilwardby with his pallium in May 1273 and immediately set out for Burgundy to meet Edward I on his return from crusade . |
| 11 | We were n't far away from the ruins of an old settlement , abandoned at the time of the dreadful Clearances by islanders who , driven by impossible conditions , bravely set out for the unknown territories of Canada to start their lives afresh . |
| 12 | We then set out for Muscat , but with nightfall approaching , we landed in Abu Dhabi . |
| 13 | 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 . |