Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] set [adv] for " in BNC.

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1 So we set off for a last look round .
2 In the morning providentially we set off for the frontier , and there to my great delight I saw the familiar face of Mr Derrick Robinson , Rhodesia 's Assistant Commissioner of Police , standing beside a BMW motor car which was to convey me to Salisbury .
3 My father was thirty-eight , my mother twenty-nine when they married ; a few months later they set off for Addis Ababa .
4 This is where one sets off for what are often called the Loch Lochy Munros : Sron a'Choire Ghairbh and Meall na Teanga , and the no less worthy Corbett of Ben Tee .
5 Later that day , approximately 3,000 students gathered at ‘ Tianda ’ , Tianjin University from where they set out for the city centre shouting the familiar slogans of the movement .
6 But there was a FOR SALE board up , new today , he had n't seen it there this morning when he set out for the meeting with the AC .
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