Example sentences of "set [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furious , Richard hired thirty ships from the Marseilles merchants and set sail for Genoa , where Philip had arrived before him and promptly fallen ill . |
| 2 | Reluctantly , I hired a pea-green boat , and with my faithful Siamese cat ( Doc Wat Son ) I set sail for Nursery Isle . |
| 3 | And yesterday , after a week-long stay , 73 vessels , ranging from the massive Russian four-master the Sedov to the Boa Esperanca , a replica of Columbus 's boat , set sail for home . |
| 4 | Yarnell decided to prove his point so he detached two aircraft carriers , the Saratoga and Lexington and a few destroyers from his battle fleet and set sail for Oahu in poor weather conditions , radio silence and no lights . |
| 5 | He rode off towards Dunbar and set sail for his dukedom of Orkney and then for Norway , where he was arrested and confined in due course in the castle of Dragsholm in Denmark . |
| 6 | WE SET SAIL for Europe in the summer of 1948 — for Europe , and for war . |
| 7 | You have now set sail for a new destination and it 's too late to turn back . |
| 8 | The fisherman cut their lines and set sail for port , but the sea serpent continued to follow them . |
| 9 | In 1928 an Indian graduate student , Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar , set sail for England to study at Cambridge with the British astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington , an expert on general relativity . |
| 10 | The vessel had left Portugal in January , docked in Darwin , Australia , on March 8 , and set sail for East Timor on March 9 . |
| 11 | FOUR young pigs set sail for the Falklands last month and to make sure they did n't get hungry on the way they took their own feed with them . |
| 12 | On 5th June , Richard finally set sail on the final leg of his long journey , reaching Tyre next day . |
| 13 | We enjoyed a lovely day in the sun and set sail on the return trip in time to be back in harbour before dark . |
| 14 | The Dunera , an 11,000 ton former troopship , bound for Australia , set sail on 10 July . |
| 15 | So she gazed and her finger traced the outlines of nymphs — thinner , higher cheek-boned than she could ever hope to be , garlanded with flowers , stepping barefoot through the forest ; and sometimes she saw an exhausted Venus , a hand below her belly , lying in a countryside where oxen were driven and ships set sail on uncharted seas . |
| 16 | He glanced back at the house as if afraid that it might pull up an anchor and set sail across the lawn after them . |
| 17 | ‘ Then the twenty-five ships from Denmark sailed over to Siward 's ships and took aboard the men from the wrecked ships , and greeted the ones on the three ships that were not damaged , and , led by the three ships , set sail across the mouth of the estuary . |
| 18 | On 5 July they set sail with a fair wind , but the adventure ended almost before it had begun for , 120 miles [ 192 km ] off the coast of Brittany , the little taskforce was challenged by the 60-gun Lion . |
| 19 | At the end of the month , the Arandora Star , once advertised as ‘ the world 's most delightful cruising liner ’ , set sail with nearly 1200 internees and 200 British troops to guard them . |
| 20 | From there we set sail with sixteen fierce Bugis tribesmen on a 2,500-mile voyage through the Spice Islands in search of the Greater Bird of Paradise . |
| 21 | SUNDAY : Set sail from Corfu to the beautiful bay of Syvota . |
| 22 | It was from Holkham that the first Devons were commercially exported to the USA , though in fact the Pilgrim Fathers , who set sail from Plymouth , took some Devons with them in the seventeenth century . |
| 23 | They set sail from the Guadalquivir River under the proud corporate title of the Armada de Molucca , amply armed but hopelessly provisioned , with crews composed of men of nine different nationalities and of innumerable and in many cases mutually antagonistic temperaments . |
| 24 | My first visit to ‘ the daughter of fire ’ was back in the summer of 1969 , when with two friends , Ian and Marie Brooker , we set sail from the port of Leith on the old mail steamer ‘ Gullfoss ’ , and after several days of not too comfortable travelling , we had our first glimpse of Iceland . |
| 25 | In April 1982 , a Task Force of warships and marines set sail from British ports to dispute with a tin-pot dictatorship the ownership of a territory on the other side of the world , of which many Britons had never before heard . |
| 26 | He was only a youngster when a party of keen Warrington anglers set sail from East Ferry Quay , in Cork Harbour , with local skipper Brian Byrne aboard the 30ft Lagosta . |
| 27 | After the ship 's foghorn had blasted out six times , they set sail from Dover , one thousand men huddled together on the deck of HMS Resolution singing , ‘ It 's a Long Way to Tipperary ’ . |
| 28 | On Sunday morning , 16 September , they set sail in the packet-boat on a boisterous sea . |
| 29 | So , after years of preparation , Columbus finally set sail in 1492 . |
| 30 | For administrative reasons the problems we set have to be multiple choice . |