Example sentences of "[adv] set [adv] for [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just caught your nippers apparently setting out for Siena , ’ Fosdyke said . |
| 2 | She soon set off for Leicester , where she sobbed ‘ hideously ’ and was put in prison with two unlucky fellow-pilgrims . |
| 3 | Devoted to the Lord ( 28 ) : deliberately set apart for God and therefore no longer available to man . |
| 4 | Knowing the risk he was taking , he still set out for Peking : why ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | and wife visited Sydney en route to Hobart and then also set off for London before flying to New York . |
| 7 | After a good night 's sleep , we arrived at breakfast with about 15 minutes to spare , and eventually set off for Hungary where we were due to stay the night with a Weymouth girl married to a Hungarian and is living in Gyor . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He immediately set off for Germany in a van and the rest is history . |
| 10 | She will then set off for Shetland again at 2 am , arriving at 2pm . |
| 11 | We then set out for Muscat , but with nightfall approaching , we landed in Abu Dhabi . |
| 12 | The Mozarts then set off for Mannheim , which , under the music-loving Elector Carl Theodor , had one of the finest orchestras in Europe ; and since 1742 the Electoral palace had also included an opera house in the west wing . |
| 13 | Then , from U hu , someone else sets off for Lāmri and for Lorpa . |
| 14 | In Sweden 's case the move was to be seen in the context of the government 's declared intent to apply for EC membership ( the date for this application was subsequently set formally for July 1 , 1991 ) . |