Example sentences of "setting out for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Harris , 51 , and his wife were setting out for church in Lisburn , Co Antrim . |
| 2 | ‘ There would be no point in setting out for a star if you did n't know how far away it was . ’ |
| 3 | Below : A conference of the Women 's Liberal Federation setting out for a tour of Blackpool and St. Annes in May 1926 , using six toastrack trams , here drawn up on both tracks at North Pier . |
| 4 | As it turned out the final Report , published in 1889 after almost five years of investigation , did embody a number of recommendations regarding the education of deaf children in future Education Acts , thus setting out for the first time proper legislation with regard to compulsory entry , ages of admission , the length of education , the size of classes , and even that Principals/Headmasters of boarding institutions had to reside on the premises . |
| 5 | Sigarup was setting out for home . |
| 6 | I 'd seen Chola and Mina setting out for the forest in the early morning , and three times during the day I 'd watched them coming back , stooped over and staggering under the weight of the enormous loads that spread across their backs , stretching three times broader than their shoulders and several feet above their heads . |
| 7 | Setting out for France again two years later , the king was described by the anonymous author of the Brut as leaving England with ‘ ordynaunce gadred and welle stuffyd , as longyd to such a ryalle Kinge ’ . |
| 8 | Murdock lost no time in setting out for London to take out a patent for his model . |
| 9 | ‘ Just caught your nippers apparently setting out for Siena , ’ Fosdyke said . |
| 10 | If you are setting out for Shrewsbury tomorrow , so must Saint Winifred . |
| 11 | When first setting out for Basle , he had expressed the conviction that his grasp of life 's " true and essential problems " was already strong enough to meet the threat to his " philosophic sense " posed by academic specialization . |
| 12 | The note of personal ambition here is reminiscent of that zeal which the young professor-elect had felt , among other feelings , on setting out for Basle . |
| 13 | Rosemary will be teaching others her skills in creating a market stall complete with special effects in the form of ‘ rosy ’ apples and ‘ muddy ’ parsnips at the Women 's Institute 's Denman College in Marcham before setting out for Staffordshire on a dolls-house holiday ! |
| 14 | As the Russian engineers were arriving in Scotland , Gordon Beattie from Scottish Nuclear 's Contracts and Purchasing department was setting out for Bulgaria for a six month secondment working at the Headquarters of the Bulgarian Energy Committee in Sofia . |
| 15 | According to Goscelin 's account of the translation of the relics of St Mildred from Thanet to St Augustine 's Canterbury , written in the late eleventh century , Cnut went to Canterbury as he was setting out for Rome and promised that he would allow the translation if he returned safely . |
| 16 | Harry Taylor , on the left , before setting out for the summit . |
| 17 | He urged holidaymakers to check with hotels before setting out for Llandudno , and for day-trippers to stay away this week-end . |