Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] set [adv prt] towards " in BNC.
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1 | By the time we had driven to Port Eynon , the wind had really picked up but not easily deterred , we abandoned the car and set off towards the cliffs . |
2 | They mounted the white dune and set off towards town square and church , past a few white cottages . |
3 | I parked my car at around midday and set out towards the Press tent . |
4 | Randolph , smiling from ear to ear , quickly dressed into warm clothes and set out towards the toy factory . |
5 | But He hummed a little tune , cheery as a plague pit , and — pausing only to extract the life from a passing mayfly , and one-ninth of the lives from a cat cowering under the fish stall ( all cats can see into the octarine ) — Death turned on His heel and set off towards the Broken Drum . |