Example sentences of "set off for [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day they were due to set off for France , Shanti had a swathe of her black curly hair bleached and dyed crimson . |
| 2 | Our escorting Wellington was delayed due to phenomenal sandstorms in the Delta area , and it was only on 18 March that it arrived and we set off for Benina to refuel before the sea leg to Malta . |
| 3 | They set off for Siwa , arriving on 21 June only to discover that the LRDG was in the process of abandoning the place . |
| 4 | With a companion in a BN Islander and Spencer in an Aero Commander they set off for Botswana . |
| 5 | HOUNSLOW will be defending an unbeaten record in the European Cup-Winners ' Cup when they set off for Holland today to compete in this season 's final stages . |
| 6 | St. George realised that there was every chance that Ofahengaue would become one of the best players of the World Cup and went to the extreme to sign Ofahengaue before the Wallabies set off for London . |
| 7 | First thing this morning campaigners set off for London , and Downing Street . |
| 8 | My father was thirty-eight , my mother twenty-nine when they married ; a few months later they set off for Addis Ababa . |
| 9 | Louise kept up a flow of bright chatter as they set off for Wigmore Street . |
| 10 | At last the great day arrived , and 17 players and supporters set off for England . |
| 11 | At 10:16 we boarded the Sprinter on platform one.Then we set off for Shrewsbury : |
| 12 | Maggie was not cheerful as they set off for Granada . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ On March 19 and I set off for Birmingham and a hotel close to the airport . |
| 15 | and eventually hauled me aboard as we set off for Blackpool . |
| 16 | Everyone knows that in fact you can get organised — so — leaving the family , animals and business I set off for Avery Hill College . |
| 17 | I set off for Duxford cursing . |
| 18 | Lifeline to the warzone : Relief supplies set off for Croatia . |
| 19 | A UN convoy which set off for Srebrenica yesterday was turned back by Serbian police backed up by an armoured car . |
| 20 | The following morning we set off for Verona . |
| 21 | Lawrence will set off for England on Sunday . |
| 22 | She will then set off for Shetland again at 2 am , arriving at 2pm . |
| 23 | and wife visited Sydney en route to Hobart and then also set off for London before flying to New York . |
| 24 | THIS is a bit hard to understand but some audacious young men from Newcastle have set off for Europe in the company of Ermentrude the Cow from The Magic Roundabout . |
| 25 | Your cousin Henry has set off for Alma Ata in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan , hoping to finance himself by selling articles to The Spectator , where he has asked me to use my influence . |
| 26 | After a good night 's sleep , we arrived at breakfast with about 15 minutes to spare , and eventually set off for Hungary where we were due to stay the night with a Weymouth girl married to a Hungarian and is living in Gyor . |
| 27 | Then , from U hu , someone else sets off for Lāmri and for Lorpa . |
| 28 | Edward Browning , a night club bouncer , called at his father 's home shortly before setting off for Scotland . |
| 29 | He recognizes in Raskolnikov a fellow-struggler , and repeatedly he says that the two of them are birds of a feather ; but he also bids him farewell with a pointed ‘ You to the right and I to the left , or the other way round if you like ’ towards the end of their final meeting , because setting off for America , unlike the North Pole , while it may or may not amount to doing anything ( Crime and Punishment does n't raise the question ) marks a parting of their ways . |
| 30 | Hardly a week passed without Anna Essinger setting off for London on a fund raising mission , invariably returning with promises to sponsor more refugee children . |