Example sentences of "[noun sg] left [noun prp] for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The ferry left Ramsgate for Dunkirk at 9.00am British time and docked two and a half hours later at 12.30pm continental time .
2 With 125 people on board — students , teachers , education officials — the vessel left Norway for Aberdeen and called at Lerwick before returning to Bergen during the ten-day itinerary .
3 By 1811 Stark was in bad health and on medical advice left Glasgow for Edinburgh , where the writers to the Signet and the Faculty of Advocates commissioned him to redesign their libraries ( later both occupied by the Signet ) for which the carcase had already been erected by Robert Reid [ q.v . ] .
4 On that day a plane left Baghdad for London with 133 people on board , mainly women and children .
5 Before the archbishop left England for Rome , he apparently denounced Calandrini to James I as a dangerous Puritan .
6 On 28 June , before any request had been received from the ruler , Centaur and Bulwark were sailed for the Gulf ; the Amphibious Squadron left Bahrein for Kuwait with instructions to stay out of sight of land ; the Hunters and Shackletons were flown north from Aden to Bahrein ; a Canberra squadron was sent from Germany to Bahrein as well ; and 24th Brigade was alerted in Kenya and preparations were made to fly it to Kuwait in chartered civil aircraft .
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