Example sentences of "set [vb base] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theseus slew the Minotaur and with Ariadne set sail for home , stopping at Naxos , where , after a night of love , he slipped away at dawn without her . |
| 2 | The Jones family set sail for a new life . |
| 3 | The only commando casualty before the Force set sail for an uneventful passage home , was an officer accidentally shot in the foot . |
| 4 | In my case it was also different , for though I had done no criminal act I had by force of circumstance set sail for Koraloona to build a new life there . |
| 5 | The theme , incidentally , The Age of Discovery , could not be more apt for the city from which Columbus set sail for the Americas 500 years ago . |
| 6 | It 's five hundred years since Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World , but the new ROSE is another achievement not to be sniffed at … because it has stripes . |