Example sentences of "set [vb base] for [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | The 2,400-tonne HM Submarine Unicorn is scheduled to set sail for Plymouth on Wednesday , July 21 four weeks after her official commissioning . |
2 | Two weeks of manoeuvres , in which the two navies practised working together , would follow and they would then set sail for Portsmouth , defeating the British fleet , correctly estimated at around 35 major warships , en route . |
3 | The vessel had left Portugal in January , docked in Darwin , Australia , on March 8 , and set sail for East Timor on March 9 . |
4 | WE SET SAIL for Europe in the summer of 1948 — for Europe , and for war . |
5 | In 1928 an Indian graduate student , Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar , set sail for England to study at Cambridge with the British astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington , an expert on general relativity . |
6 | Furious , Richard hired thirty ships from the Marseilles merchants and set sail for Genoa , where Philip had arrived before him and promptly fallen ill . |
7 | Italian and French frigates have set sail for Mogadishu . |
8 | Five top players shocked their province by upping sticks and setting sail for Japan . |
9 | The comic duo , soon to star in Branagh 's new film Peter 's Friends , are seen setting sail for New York in Episode One to escape Bertie 's marriage to the unspeakable Honoria Glossop , but danger lurks among their fellow first-class passengers . |
10 | $4m will be going into the Columbian world fair at Seville ; the Dominican Republic is hoping to build a 390-foot lighthouse for $10m ; 12 full-size replica ships will be setting sail for America ( presumably from their commissioning countries ) , and the fifth Genovese Columbian conference will be exhibiting every plant of the New World . |
11 | A year later , taking leave of his wife with some piercing poems of separation , he set sail for India . |
12 | For Henry Thomas had left Tredegar for railway employment in Swindon and one of his sons , the Uncle Harry who features in the Swindon holidays described so lovingly in The Childhood of Edward Thomas , was a fitter at the Swindon GWR works until he set sail for South Africa in 1891 . |
13 | It was an emotional moment back in nineteen forty as Cliff , Dinah and their sister Sheila waved goodbye to their family and friends and set sail for America . |
14 | Her mother waved the 20-year old off , and she set sail for England . |
15 | On renouncing alcohol he was pardoned and he set sail for Darlington where he became a leading light in the Society . |