Example sentences of "set [adv prt] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When the rain stops I set off for a walk in the cool , after-rain air . |
| 3 | Oag has just returned from Tokyo , and will set off for a climbing exhibition in Grenoble in a few days . |
| 4 | Quite how to choose your destination is not clear : You might set out for a holiday in Virgo and end up in the Crab Nebula . |
| 5 | The sky was gun-metal but the deluge had not come when they set out for a cafe . |
| 6 | She arranged them on the big table on the terrace where they looked impeccable , like clothes set out for a wedding . |
| 7 | It 's just basically set up for a rape scene . |
| 8 | Social groups are often deliberately set up for a purpose . |
| 9 | ‘ Zoo Check ’ was set up for a number of reasons , here are its six aims : |
| 10 | A few months as a registrar in Nottingham , then he would be well set up for a job in the place of his choice . |
| 11 | THREE or four times a month a Royal Bank lorry laden with 4 tonnes of waste paper pulls out of Drummond House and sets off for a paper mill in Fife . |
| 12 | A beat that sets out for a destination may have to renavigate on the way or may even have to change destination . |
| 13 | But in August , just before setting off for a month in Switzerland , he still hoped to have finished a draft of the third act by the end of the year . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ There would be no point in setting out for a star if you did n't know how far away it was . ’ |
| 16 | After meeting the Soviet culture minister , and the musical director of the Bolshoi opera , Mr Palmer set off for a cellar club-cum-recording studio and gallery to hear a folk singer break the musical mould and , hopefully , erase the memory of the song ( ‘ I Belong To … ’ ) |
| 17 | Set the temperature to a degree or two higher than that of the maintenance tank and place the female in this set up for a time to associate herself with the layout and hiding places . |
| 18 | This time our hero Kevin ( Culkin ) gets on the wrong plane as he and his family set out for a Christmas break in Miami . |