Example sentences of "[pers pn] set sail [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reluctantly , I hired a pea-green boat , and with my faithful Siamese cat ( Doc Wat Son ) I set sail for Nursery Isle . |
| 2 | WE SET SAIL for Europe in the summer of 1948 — for Europe , and for war . |
| 3 | From there we set sail with sixteen fierce Bugis tribesmen on a 2,500-mile voyage through the Spice Islands in search of the Greater Bird of Paradise . |
| 4 | My first visit to ‘ the daughter of fire ’ was back in the summer of 1969 , when with two friends , Ian and Marie Brooker , we set sail from the port of Leith on the old mail steamer ‘ Gullfoss ’ , and after several days of not too comfortable travelling , we had our first glimpse of Iceland . |
| 5 | On 5 July they set sail with a fair wind , but the adventure ended almost before it had begun for , 120 miles [ 192 km ] off the coast of Brittany , the little taskforce was challenged by the 60-gun Lion . |
| 6 | On Sunday morning , 16 September , they set sail in the packet-boat on a boisterous sea . |
| 7 | They set sail from the Guadalquivir River under the proud corporate title of the Armada de Molucca , amply armed but hopelessly provisioned , with crews composed of men of nine different nationalities and of innumerable and in many cases mutually antagonistic temperaments . |
| 8 | After the ship 's foghorn had blasted out six times , they set sail from Dover , one thousand men huddled together on the deck of HMS Resolution singing , ‘ It 's a Long Way to Tipperary ’ . |