Example sentences of "then set [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She will then set off for Shetland again at 2 am , arriving at 2pm .
2 Yet at the time , he admits , he saw it merely as a way to travel , learn the ropes and then set up in business on his own account .
3 We then set out for Muscat , but with nightfall approaching , we landed in Abu Dhabi .
4 With a sinking heart she arranged for her things to come up by an outside porter , and then set off for home .
5 The Mozarts then set off for Mannheim , which , under the music-loving Elector Carl Theodor , had one of the finest orchestras in Europe ; and since 1742 the Electoral palace had also included an opera house in the west wing .
6 The Squadron had originated as the idea of a New Englander , Norman Prince , who had learned to fly in Massachusetts in 1914 , and then set off to France with the intention of forming a unit for American volunteer flyers .
7 Miss Logan made indeterminate gestures to the priest , then set off in pursuit of her employer .
8 He then sets out to scourge the thronging temples of moneychangers and idolators .
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