Example sentences of "to leave for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Ireland survey the wreckage of their worst ever Five Nations campaign as they prepare to leave for New Zealand .
2 Reluctantly Maniguet was allowed to leave for Paris .
3 Similarly , the two brothers and four sisters of the Popaj family who had taken refuge in the Italian embassy in 1985 ( claiming persecution because of their father 's alleged wartime activities — see also p. 34249 ) were issued with passports and allowed to leave for Italy on May 16 .
4 He was released on Feb. 1 and allowed to leave for Damascus , Syria .
5 I 'll be ready to leave for Moscow by twelve . ’
6 The leader of the opposition National Democratic Party of Georgia ( NDPG ) , Georgi Chanturia , was arrested at Tbilisi airport as he tried to leave for Moscow on Sept. 16 , together with his wife Irina Sarishvili and another NDPG leader Vakhtang Talakhadze ( who was released the following day ) .
7 I ca n't remember his second name ; begins with a G. He was supposed to leave for Aberdeen the day I left , to start some job on the rigs .
8 Boswell employs over a thousand words to describe the Monboddo visit , which began around mid-day , and ended when they had to leave for Aberdeen which they did not reach until late that night .
9 On Feb. 9 Albanian police had prevented some 5,000 would-be emigrants from sailing from Durrës , the port ( 30 km west of Tirana , the Albanian capital ) from which a group of Albanians been allowed to leave for Brindisi in July 1990 [ see p. 37618 ] .
10 And time went by , and suddenly I found out that the man I suspected ( who was married to an Englishwoman ) was planning to leave for England .
11 just as I was ready to leave for England I met John Leinster . "
12 Around 2,000 East Germans continued to leave for West Germany each day ( as against 344,000 for the whole of 1989 ) .
13 The appointment of a transport adviser has now been made and she is preparing to leave for Accra at the time of writing this report .
14 In only three days I shall be free to leave for Israel . ’
15 Prior to July 1 Soviet Jews had been able to leave for Israel with only a visa .
16 … we congratulated one another , we embraced , and then the Empress went to change her dress in order to leave for Saint Cloud where she was to live en tête-à-tête with her husband .
17 You had to leave for work at 8.25 .
18 Anne had to leave for work for two o'clock but she proudly displayed her ring to her friends and they all sincerely wished her happiness .
19 Her father was about to leave for work , by the time she had showered and dressed .
20 At about 7 a.m. he walked towards his house and hid in the bushes across the road and watched for his dad to leave for work .
21 Following cluster bombing raids Croatian authorities in Vinkovci on Sept. 25 gave JNA five days to leave for Serbia with their equipment , and Zagreb radio announced on Sept. 26 that the JNA had pulled out .
22 They had been about to leave for Mass when Una had suddenly taken ill .
23 More mysterious , why was such a message delivered hours before the King actually decided to leave for Kinghorn .
24 Soldiers began to leave for home ( although many never left ) , rationing became less strict , the balere reopened ( a great event for the young ) and , most important of all , we could talk freely with out the fear of being overheard .
25 It was with deep regret that I had to leave for home later that evening .
26 Someone sent somebody out to kill two hens ; a local gentleman , knowing the lie of the land , sent his servant to the inn with rum and sugar and an apology for not knowing of their arrival in sufficient time to put them up , and he had to leave for Inverness at the crack of dawn ; Boswell still had some bread despite the amount he had doled out to the Macraes .
27 My car is clamped two hours before we are to leave for Holyhead , though lifted within the hour , after much persuasion and a torrid sobbing session at the clamping office .
28 So , sadly , we had to leave for Siren last November .
29 They had four days together before they had to leave for Estoril and the pre-race qualifying sessions , and by the end of them Kate had to admit that the naïve dreams she 'd had of becoming irresistible to this man were exactly that , and extremely unrealistic into the bargain .
30 The morning after the arrival of the train , we found a lorry in the souk preparing to leave for Abri .
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