Example sentences of "he set [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I had a er I got him set up for the morning jobs and then I did the afternoon jobs with him . |
| 2 | He gets up early in the morning , saddles his ass , cuts the wood for the sacrifice , and taking two young servants and Isaac with him , he sets off for the place of which God has told him . |
| 3 | When even the milkmen and the postmen are not on the streets , he sets off for his daily three hour run , then swims for an hour before finally starting his day 's work as a leather goods salesman . |
| 4 | Before he sets off for the next stage , he 's sharing his seafaring experiences . |
| 5 | Prince Adam promptly donated the entire museum to a foundation which he set up for the purpose , to which he also ceded all his rights to his pre-war estates and property . |
| 6 | In the city itself there is the Oskar Reinhart Foundation , which he set up for Winterthur in his lifetime , and which houses over six hundred works by Swiss , German and Austrian artists of the sixteenth , seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |
| 7 | Until 1190 , they were kept up-to-date ; but in that year , Count Henry II of Champagne took one copy of the list with him when he set out for Outremer , and this may have inhibited his officials from making further changes in the copy left behind at Troyes . |
| 8 | And at last he set out for the meeting-place . |
| 9 | His political position in the USA had , however , begun to weaken even before he set out for Paris . |
| 10 | Once when Denis Wirth-Miller was staying at Allen Street he set out for Soho in a cab with Minton who had four sailors in tow . |
| 11 | He set out for the presidential palace about 6 a.m. but heard the place was surrounded . |
| 12 | In 1669 he was first approached by the French statesman J. B. Colbert , and in December 1682 he set out for France , having been commissioned by Colbert to plan and construct the fountains at Versailles . |
| 13 | By six o'clock he was weary and bad tempered and he set out for home . |
| 14 | He then passed on to Constantinople , where again he stopped for a while ; and on 23 January 1433 ( I Jumada II 836 ) he set out for Edirne . |
| 15 | But there was a FOR SALE board up , new today , he had n't seen it there this morning when he set out for the meeting with the AC . |
| 16 | He set off for the Canal Turn in glorious isolation while behind him the rest of the field manically tried to salvage some hope from the disaster . |
| 17 | It started with his first kick , and keeping the machine as quiet as possible until clear of the village , he set off for Berkeley . |
| 18 | Next he set off for Jerusalem , then to Rome again , and back to England and London . |
| 19 | And so when he set off for home the red bitch was with him , loping along by his side . |
| 20 | Perhaps we might have a look at things , at this stage , through the eyes of young Benjamin Titford , the youngest surviving son , left motherless at nine years old ; waving his big brother William Charles goodbye as he set off for London soon afterwards ; watching brother John cough himself into an early grave ; listening to endless conversations about high prices , shortages , and a war across the channel ; dragged out of his bed in the middle of the night to cries of ‘ Fire ! ’ and ‘ Flood ! ’ ; struggling to keep warm every winter ; watching his father die of a long illness — these experiences made his childhood , in modern terms , an awful , albeit a dramatic one . |
| 21 | As he set off for the airport Lewis remembered that he had told Adam from the first that only trouble could come from a person of his youth and inexperience inheriting a big house and land of the dimensions of Wyvis Hall . |
| 22 | ‘ That fateful day he set off for work and their lives changed forever is etched on Wyn 's memory . |
| 23 | But Denis 's hopes took flight with the break-up of the Soviet empire and he set off for Russia this summer . |
| 24 | He set off for Ayr yesterday with five more under his belt and promptly won the first three races , two in photos . |
| 25 | Naturally I agreed , and he set off for paris immediately with Ted Church as the UK observer . |
| 26 | When it came time for him to be knighted by Henry I in Rouen , he set off for Normandy with a crowd of these young men about him . |
| 27 | When he had had his lunch , which he brought with him in the suitcase , a packet of salami sandwiches , a croissant with jam in it and a fruit-and-nut bar , he set off for West End Lane , to the Electricity Board and the Gas Board , to make inquiries about a chimney sweep , and put an advertisement for tenants in a newsagent 's window . |
| 28 | Frustrated , he set off for London . |
| 29 | Checking his watch , he set off for the hilltop once more . |
| 30 | He shivered a little as he set off for home . |