Example sentences of "[pron] set [adv prt] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She set out for the cemetery where both her parents were buried . |
| 2 | She had slammed the door as she set out for the Dallam wedding , leaving Odette in tears . |
| 3 | Flavia was working ; the long days in the tower were intact , only in the evening she set out for the house on the other bay ; the difficult hour at the cafe was cut , even writing became bearable . |
| 4 | Prince Adam promptly donated the entire museum to a foundation which he set up for the purpose , to which he also ceded all his rights to his pre-war estates and property . |
| 5 | And at last he set out for the meeting-place . |
| 6 | But there was a FOR SALE board up , new today , he had n't seen it there this morning when he set out for the meeting with the AC . |
| 7 | Checking his watch , he set off for the hilltop once more . |
| 8 | As he set off for the airport Lewis remembered that he had told Adam from the first that only trouble could come from a person of his youth and inexperience inheriting a big house and land of the dimensions of Wyvis Hall . |
| 9 | He set off for the Canal Turn in glorious isolation while behind him the rest of the field manically tried to salvage some hope from the disaster . |
| 10 | The aircraft-carrier Clemenceau , though it set off for the Gulf and its movements were followed initially by Le Monde , returned to Toulon in October after a 55-day voyage . |