Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] set [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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1 | We kept guard against the security forces and helped in the communal kitchen which was set up for the support committee . |
2 | You were set up for life with them , ’ Olive Fitzgerald of the Samaritans , bracing for a flood of calls over the next few months on their telephone helpline , told Reuters ' man . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Brazil 's Free Zone of Manaus ( ZFM ) provides a good illustration of the difficulties of adjustment , even though it was set up for quite different purposes . |
5 | It was set up for the administrative convenience of the London banks and the defendant and has been used principally in connection with the buying and selling of stocks and shares on the London market . |
6 | According to Goscelin 's account of the translation of the relics of St Mildred from Thanet to St Augustine 's Canterbury , written in the late eleventh century , Cnut went to Canterbury as he was setting out for Rome and promised that he would allow the translation if he returned safely . |