Example sentences of "and set sail for " 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 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | The fisherman cut their lines and set sail for port , but the sea serpent continued to follow them . |
5 | The vessel had left Portugal in January , docked in Darwin , Australia , on March 8 , and set sail for East Timor on March 9 . |