Example sentences of "set out for [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when ye would set out for Castille , let all the people know in secret , that they make themselves ready , and take with them all that they have , so that none of the Moors in the suburb may know thereof ; for certes ye can not keep the city , neither abide therein after my death . |
| 2 | The threatening cloud of gloom that had been pea-sized when they 'd set out for Host Street grew to storm proportions . |
| 3 | And then , restraining himself from a farewell blast on the Dixie horn , he 'd set out for Liston Hall . |
| 4 | The truce of Espléchin in September did nothing to quieten importunate creditors , and on 30 November , having sent a bitter denunciation of Archbishop Stratford to the pope , Edward frustrated , desperate and furious — set out for England to wreak revenge and secure funds . |
| 5 | The day after I got back from Moscow , I set out for Philadelphia , where I was due to receive a medal from the Franklin Institute . |
| 6 | The Seasiders set out for Cyprus today needing a win or a higher scoring draw than 1-1 in Wednesday 's return game to secure a lucrative first round tie with Paris St Germain . |
| 7 | We then set out for Muscat , but with nightfall approaching , we landed in Abu Dhabi . |
| 8 | Mother wept to see Father 's state , and proposed that we set out for Chiguana , the nearest town where we might expect to find a hospital , immediately . |
| 9 | Knowing the risk he was taking , he still set out for Peking : why ? |
| 10 | By this one Tutilo must have set out for Longner , and by this one he had returned , only to happen upon this grievous discovery along the way . |
| 11 | In Roirbak 's laboratory wing , Ari was watching a movie too , though of a slightly different nature to any Roirbak had set out for Nathan 's entertainment . |
| 12 | Over a hundred armed agents set out for Mount Carmel . |
| 13 | With the bishop of Winchester he presented Kilwardby with his pallium in May 1273 and immediately set out for Burgundy to meet Edward I on his return from crusade . |
| 14 | I mean , I do n't think Mary and Joseph would have set out for Bethlehem yet . |
| 15 | In pursuit of these , Mopsus proposes marriage to a fine lady and is beaten by her servants ; he steals his father 's rent money and sets out for London where he is robbed by a prostitute and thrown into gaol ; his father sends more money which he uses to bribe the gaoler ; he is tricked into marrying an aristocrat 's mistress who promptly gives birth ; the woman leaves and the baby dies ; the prodigal returns to his father . |
| 16 | After the death of Haran , Terah sets out for Canaan , with his grandson Lot and his son Abram and childless daughter-in-law Sarai . |
| 17 | If you are setting out for Shrewsbury tomorrow , so must Saint Winifred . |
| 18 | He urged holidaymakers to check with hotels before setting out for Llandudno , and for day-trippers to stay away this week-end . |
| 19 | Rosemary will be teaching others her skills in creating a market stall complete with special effects in the form of ‘ rosy ’ apples and ‘ muddy ’ parsnips at the Women 's Institute 's Denman College in Marcham before setting out for Staffordshire on a dolls-house holiday ! |
| 20 | Setting out for France again two years later , the king was described by the anonymous author of the Brut as leaving England with ‘ ordynaunce gadred and welle stuffyd , as longyd to such a ryalle Kinge ’ . |
| 21 | When first setting out for Basle , he had expressed the conviction that his grasp of life 's " true and essential problems " was already strong enough to meet the threat to his " philosophic sense " posed by academic specialization . |
| 22 | The note of personal ambition here is reminiscent of that zeal which the young professor-elect had felt , among other feelings , on setting out for Basle . |
| 23 | Murdock lost no time in setting out for London to take out a patent for his model . |
| 24 | ‘ Just caught your nippers apparently setting out for Siena , ’ Fosdyke said . |
| 25 | According to Goscelin 's account of the translation of the relics of St Mildred from Thanet to St Augustine 's Canterbury , written in the late eleventh century , Cnut went to Canterbury as he was setting out for Rome and promised that he would allow the translation if he returned safely . |
| 26 | As the Russian engineers were arriving in Scotland , Gordon Beattie from Scottish Nuclear 's Contracts and Purchasing department was setting out for Bulgaria for a six month secondment working at the Headquarters of the Bulgarian Energy Committee in Sofia . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | We collected our packed lunch from the manageress , and , as the sun again was shining , set out for Helvellyn . |
| 29 | I joined a small group of three Germans , a Dutchman and an American who , with a young interpreter and a terrifyingly fit-looking guide from Kiev , set out for Europe 's icy crown at four o'clock one morning last July . |
| 30 | But by the time the delegation set out for Paris , the French Draft Constitution had already been rejected — and with it the principle of free consent on which the French Union was to be based — and while he was still en route to France Ho learned that a Provisional Government of Cochinchina had been announced . |