Example sentences of "set off 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 … ’ ) |