Example sentences of "set [adv] from [noun prp] for " in BNC.

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1 The teams set off from Liverpool for Beaune in France on the sponsored run that will raise thousands of pounds for the Macmillan Nurse Appeal , now nearing its target to fund four new hospital support Macmillan Nurses on Merseyside .
2 I set off from Beirut for Jerusalem in the late autumn of 1980 ; and the moment I entered Rafi Horowitz 's office in Jerusalem , I realised that I had set myself no easy assignment .
3 Class V2 60815 sets off from Victoria for the south in about 1950 .
4 Steve , 39 , from Primrose Street , was due to be among the drivers setting out from Edinburgh for the gruelling trip to Monaco .
5 Certainly , as Abraham set out to offer Isaac as a sacrifice in the way God had commanded him , his faith was flying blind in its implicit obedience , just as it had when he set out from Ur for a country which he had never seen .
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