Example sentences of "[noun] set [adv prt] for [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last the great day arrived , and 17 players and supporters set off for England . |
| 2 | After the death of Haran , Terah sets out for Canaan , with his grandson Lot and his son Abram and childless daughter-in-law Sarai . |
| 3 | But by the time the delegation set out for Paris , the French Draft Constitution had already been rejected — and with it the principle of free consent on which the French Union was to be based — and while he was still en route to France Ho learned that a Provisional Government of Cochinchina had been announced . |
| 4 | He had been a fisherman and told tales of the waters ‘ boiling ’ with seals near the Monach Isles , of canoeists setting off for St Kilda and of frequent sightings of porpoises , dolphins , basking sharks , even the occasional whale … |
| 5 | When she had eaten , Ruth set off for Dudley House . |
| 6 | But it was precisely Gould 's unshakeable commonsense , which Havell had so reviled , that was beginning to antagonise the rival American camp , and it was with exasperation that they watched Gould set off for Europe on a reconnoitring trip for his second publication . |
| 7 | With this thought in mind , Loretta set off for Paddington . |
| 8 | In July 1816 Sewell set off for Vienna , Berlin and Hanover . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | First thing this morning campaigners set off for London , and Downing Street . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This was not quite ready when Mozart set off for Munich and so Mozart 's letters to his father , who acted as intermediary between him and the librettist , reveal a great deal of the process of writing . |
| 13 | They became engaged in England and next year Miss Brooke set out for New York chaperoned by her brother Edgar , a solicitor . |
| 14 | Then , with a small group of his best experts , Gehlen set off for Bavaria to await the arrival of the Americans . |
| 15 | St. George realised that there was every chance that Ofahengaue would become one of the best players of the World Cup and went to the extreme to sign Ofahengaue before the Wallabies set off for London . |
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| 17 | My bus next morning set out for Ballina , westward to County Mayo , to the place where General Humbert of revolutionary France had landed with his soldiers to help drive the English out of Ireland , in 1798 . |
| 18 | The next morning George and his father set off for Thorsbury , each leading a pair of grey shirehorses . |
| 19 | Miss Harker set off for London with her young charge two days later . |
| 20 | A few months later the Revers and their baby daughter set off for San Francisco . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Hardly a week passed without Anna Essinger setting off for London on a fund raising mission , invariably returning with promises to sponsor more refugee children . |
| 23 | We also installed and operated the concrete batching and mixing set up for St Mawgan with a site presence backed up from the Plymouth Depot . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , British 800 metres record holder Kirsty Wade has arranged a social evening tonight to boost the trust fund set up for Cameron Sharp , the former international sprinter disabled in a car crash last year . |
| 26 | Hence , almost immediately after the Pensions Act was passed , Lloyd George set off for Germany to investigate the longest established national insurance system . |
| 27 | Over a hundred armed agents set out for Mount Carmel . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But yesterday he happily grasped the handles of her frilly carrycot as the Stewarts set off for Los Angeles . |
| 30 | 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 . |