Example sentences of "to set [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked as if she were about to set off for a provincial cocktail party , an office party of female executives . |
| 2 | The day they were due to set off for France , Shanti had a swathe of her black curly hair bleached and dyed crimson . |
| 3 | She and Ella had plenty of time before they needed to set off for school . |
| 4 | A MOTHER has condemned thieves who stole the wheels off the family car just before her cancer victim daughter was to set off for a hospital check up . |
| 5 | But coming here has made me realize how much time has passed since , as a small boy , we used to set off for dinners and functions . |
| 6 | It was a suspiciously long letter for someone who seldom wrote any , and when Rain was waiting to set off for the office he was still tapping away at it . |
| 7 | It was as if she was n't married ; just as it had been before , going to bed in her pink and white room , setting off for the ‘ Craft Basket ’ at half-past eight in the morning , just as she used to set off for school , home by five thirty , tea , telly , and some needlework to keep herself occupied . |
| 8 | Anxious not to interrupt Veronica 's Sunday lunch , Loretta waited until three to set off for Hallborough . |
| 9 | Well , if you 're about to set off for your Easter weekend , do take care on the roads . |
| 10 | I daresay you find this strange and may think I am ungrateful when after all I have been given the chance to set up for myself which is not given to many of our station but it is a surprise to me too . |
| 11 | I have a four foot tank which I was going to set up for Malawis , however , with the above in mind , what would you consider the best course of action : |
| 12 | On this typical page of shooting script are given the essential directions needed to set up for each shot in a sequence . |
| 13 | Although this disparity reflects the real world of budget limits , it could scupper the care programmes that the psychiatry department is meant to set up for seriously mentally ill patients and make planning for discharge more difficult . |
| 14 | Freud compares taboos with the obsessional prohibitions that some neurotics had been observed to set up for themselves , and sometimes for those around them , such as the frequent need to wash their own hands before performing a task . |
| 15 | A final technical point on audio versus video recording : it takes no longer to set up for a simple video recording than it does to position a microphone for an audio recording . |
| 16 | It takes about half an hour to set up for 2 shots , which will take up about 5 seconds each on screen . |
| 17 | Henry II had five sons who were suspicious and envious of each other , but three of them died before Henry died in the summer of 1189 , and all his possessions passed to Richard , who had pledged himself to set out for the Holy Land on the Third Crusade . |
| 18 | The next time they are able to gather together enough courage to set out for the supermarket they may get only as far as point B before they have had enough , anticipating more extreme levels of anxiety if they continue . |
| 19 | On a number of occasions , I have been glad to set out for the hon. Member in response to his questions in the House detailed information about the contents of the computer records and how many are held on the system at any one time . |
| 20 | They had been about to set out for the main bridge when he had said : |
| 21 | I just wanted to set out for you we do n't agree with the assessment on landscape impact on the A sixty four south . |