Sentence examples for has set off for from inspiring English sources

Ed Miliband has set off for South Africa to pay his respects.

Nikola Gruevski, the prime minister, has set off for Washington seeking support for his attempts to speed EU and NATO integration, but he may get his ear chewed off when he arrives.

When a fellow traveler, a German named Mathias, says he's heading into the countryside to look for his missing brother (Henrich has set off for a remote archaeological site, where a girl he liked was supposedly working), Jeff announces that the four of them will go along.

Trix by Stephanie Theobald 352pp, Sceptre, £10.99 In Stephanie Theobald's third lovingly detailed ode to food, foreigners and lesbian sex, Mo is a Scarborough waitress who has finally given up waiting for her husband to stop being gay, and has set off for America on a consolatory road trip which she hopes to subsidise by writing a feature about the American breakfast.

By midmorning, we were done with the Eiffel Tower and had set off for Versailles.

It was 14 August 1976 and she had set off for confession with some school friends.

The next morning, Aikau removed his lifejacket, so he could better swim, and, using a surfboard rescued from the Hokule'a, set off for land to find help.

By the afternoon, a cavalcade of 15 cars and a bus full of journalists had set off for Zakharchenko's summer cottage.

Iva the name she had embraced, casting off "Ikuko"—had set off for Japan in 1941 with her trunks full of American food, and her letters home wailed at the misery of three rice meals a day.

While Bayern Munich flew off to conquer north London, troubled Schalke had set off for its long journey to Istanbul to face a reinforced Galatasaray with high ambitions of its own.

He had crept past the recreation center's outdoor swimming pool (unavailable to the "out-of-town guests") and had set off for the road that linked Bayou Black to the rest of the parish.