Sentence examples for setting off for school from inspiring English sources

Bower is not the first to tell the story of how he would complete two paper rounds before setting off for school; the money he earned would be spent on buns, sold on at a profit to his classmates.

After waking at 8am, he washes and dresses himself before eating breakfast, and in term time, setting off for school.

She set off for school, wondering how she would get there without the bridge.

The girls have to fetch water and cook before they set off for school and when they get back.

Before Samir and Shelley set off for school, Shelley checks the fridge and kitchen cupboards to make sure there's food for supper and for tomorrow's breakfast.

"Now, only a few years later, I was conducting my own autopsy on all those dead Chinese I had seen lying by the roadside as I set off for school".

It was the last Friday before half term – 21 October 1966 – and, like hundreds of other children across Aberfan, Jeff set off for school that day looking forward to the holiday ahead of him.

AFTER all those attentive early childhood rituals -- the flashcards, the Kumon, the Dora the Explorer, the mornings spent in cutting-edge playgrounds -- who wouldn't want to give their children a head start when it's finally time to set off for school?

Others have talked with their children about safety and strangers, and struggled to explain to them how someone could kidnap and kill a buoyant, animal-loving 10-year-old girl as she set off for school with her backpack, purple-and-pink glasses perched on her nose.

Prentice said he did not suggest the killer had set off for school that morning intending to kill Bailey, but added: "If he had not been carrying a knife the outcome of the conflict would have been a few bruises and perhaps a fat lip".

In the morning he washes and dresses himself before eating breakfast and then sets off for school.