Example sentences of "set off for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked as if she were about to set off for a provincial cocktail party , an office party of female executives . |
| 2 | A MOTHER has condemned thieves who stole the wheels off the family car just before her cancer victim daughter was to set off for a hospital check up . |
| 3 | When the rain stops I set off for a walk in the cool , after-rain air . |
| 4 | So we set off for a last look round . |
| 5 | We set off for a five mile run in the woods to the south of the camp . |
| 6 | Oag has just returned from Tokyo , and will set off for a climbing exhibition in Grenoble in a few days . |
| 7 | THREE or four times a month a Royal Bank lorry laden with 4 tonnes of waste paper pulls out of Drummond House and sets off for a paper mill in Fife . |
| 8 | But in August , just before setting off for a month in Switzerland , he still hoped to have finished a draft of the third act by the end of the year . |
| 9 | After meeting the Soviet culture minister , and the musical director of the Bolshoi opera , Mr Palmer set off for a cellar club-cum-recording studio and gallery to hear a folk singer break the musical mould and , hopefully , erase the memory of the song ( ‘ I Belong To … ’ ) |
| 10 | I collect a dozen or so from the dewy grass in the early morning and set off for a few hours ' chubbing , knowing I am going to catch several fish , providing , of course , the weather and water conditions are favourable . |
| 11 | And he immediately set off for a long Bank Holiday break ! |
| 12 | Following two days ' rest Venables and Renshaw set off for a final attempt taking a more direct line , avoiding sections of 70 degree snow and ice by passages of rock and mixed climbing . |
| 13 | She was eighteen and had never been out of England , yet she unhesitatingly set off for a remote and savage country in Africa . |