Example sentences of "[noun prp] set out for " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the death of Haran , Terah sets out for Canaan , with his grandson Lot and his son Abram and childless daughter-in-law Sarai . |
| 2 | So the following afternoon , as soon as Mrs Wormwood had departed in her car for another session of bingo , Matilda set out for Fred 's house to investigate . |
| 3 | Only six weeks after her confinement , the Mozarts set out for Salzburg to visit Leopold , a visit promised ever since their marriage but continually put off , much to Leopold 's annoyance . |
| 4 | By 10 minutes to 12 everything was ready for the bazaar , so Amanda set out for home , tingling with a mixture of excitement and fear . |
| 5 | They became engaged in England and next year Miss Brooke set out for New York chaperoned by her brother Edgar , a solicitor . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Chola and Mina set out for the fields to continue the millet harvest , and Kalchu fetched the flat wooden spade and began beating down the mud to repair the leaking roof . |
| 8 | Soon afterwards Chola and Mina set out for the hills to gather grass . |
| 9 | Thus , in March 1990 , Christine set out for Heathrow with a stack of documents required by the Romanian authorities , and little idea of what awaited her . |
| 10 | With Leoncico snapping genially at his heels , with a force of 190 Spaniards and with several hundred more local guides and porters embarked on a fleet of nine canoes and a small ship named the Chapinera , Balboa set out for Acla on the morning of Thursday , 1 September 1513 . |
| 11 | While Pavel set out for the next town on his list . |
| 12 | Yet I seemed to hear the distant cheers , as each Province selected its king and the champions of Ulster , Leinster , Connaught and Munster set out for Tara and the kingship trials . |
| 13 | On Good Friday 1958 the first march set out for Aldermaston , the atomic research establishment in Berkshire , under the CND symbol , a black circle forked with a white ‘ drooping cross ’ , the semaphore symbols for N and D , which became the membership badge not only for the campaign but for a certain kind of non-conformity among young people . |