Example sentences of "setting up [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If women want to spend their lives with something that is slim , sanitary and sensitive , perhaps they should consider setting up home with a thermometer dipped in Dettol . |
| 2 | Would it , he was thinking , be like the ending of Forster 's as yet unpublished Maurice , a somewhat tame homo novel of which he was to say , commenting on the male lovers setting up house at the end , ‘ I give it three weeks ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ If you are staying some while , sir , you must tell it me privately , ’ Mary said , ‘ since I am setting up shop as a connoisseur of grave stories . ’ |
| 4 | Picking up the pieces was no easy task but Connors was one of the first traders to get back on its feet , temporarily setting up shop in a portacabin . |
| 5 | J. Chapman , Sledmere Drive , Acklam , Middlesbrough : I was a final year pharmacy student in Sunderland and I was setting up apparatus for a chemistry experiment , when another student came in with the sad news that the King had died . |