Example sentences of "have set [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has set himself up as a left-wing leader taking on the Government , ’ Mr Clarke said . |
| 2 | In recent years he has set himself up as a crusader for higher press and broadcasting standards , regularly harking back to the golden days of his journalistic apprenticeship in Yorkshire , where every fact was triple-checked and every speculation ruthlessly suppressed in the Hebden Bridge Times . |
| 3 | Engineer and motorbike enthusiast Terence Bird has set himself up as the sole European importer of Nanchang bikes . |
| 4 | I fear that our nation has set itself up for a decade of national strife . |
| 5 | In this area a number of small clothing-manufacturers had set themselves up since the war , migrating out from the East End of London . |
| 6 | Courtney had set himself up as a pioneer working with women victims of sex abuse , drug addiction and Aids problems . |
| 7 | The dapper , 52-year-old economist with his trademark owlish glasses had set himself up as a beacon of the reform movement as long ago as April 1991 when he led his party out of government . |
| 8 | Selene never again made a long speech , but she was happy ; and after Mrs Gracie died Dinah took shares in the business , which by then had set itself up in the old Asshe house while Dinah moved out to Hampstead . |