Example sentences of "he set up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why was he set up ? ’ |
| 2 | No sooner had he set up these new procedures than Coleman was summoned to the American Embassy in Nicosia by the Department of Defense attaché , Col. John Sasser , to whom he had reported on leaving Beirut as a CBN ‘ refugee ’ a few months earlier . |
| 3 | He sets up long , colourful and emotional speeches that are in turn both funny , beautiful and violent , and his work can not be compared with anything that has preceded him . |
| 4 | He sets up poetry , rhetoric , and textuality , as against the myth of presence , the poem as the life-blood of a master spirit , and the Romantic ideal of expressiveness . |
| 5 | After accidentally bringing about the death of his wife and child , he sets up his own suicide . |
| 6 | Chops the dwarf takes lodgings here when he ‘ goes into society ’ , CS 11 : so does Montague Tigg when he sets up his fraudulent insurance company , MC 27 ; Twemlow , seated in the window of his club , is ‘ respectfully contemplated by Pall Mall ’ , OMF ii 3 . |
| 7 | It is to be hoped that the Secretary of State , when he sets up the national appraisal arrangements to which he is committed , will build on this goodwill . |
| 8 | I shall argue that he overstates the significance that can be attributed to literacy in itself : that he lends authority to a language for describing literacy practices that often contradicts even his own stated disclaimers of the ‘ strong ’ case ; that he understates the qualities of oral communication ; that he sets up unhelpful and often untestable polarities between , for instance , the ‘ potentialities ’ of literacy and ‘ restricted literacy ’ ; and that he polarises the differences between oral and literate modes of communication in a way that gives insufficient credit to the reality of ‘ mixed ’ and interacting modes . |
| 9 | No child to save the marriage , so he sets up some fishing straight away instead . |
| 10 | It is unfortunate that the considerate father who aims to prevent his daughter becoming the victim of a faithless fortune-hunter or the testator eager that his possessions should not fall into the hands of his widow 's second husband rather than his own children should find that the trust he sets up may well bear double liability to tax , both when the funds are settled in trust and when they are paid out . |
| 11 | He sets up a fair few goals but we really need a finisher something Wallace managed to do ( if you gave him enough chances in the game ) . |
| 12 | It follows , in my opinion , that the servant may , whilst in the employment of the master , be as agreeable , attentive , and skilful as it is in his power to be to others with the ultimate view of obtaining the benefit of the customers ' friendly feelings when he calls upon them if and when he sets up business for himself . |
| 13 | The Shah was equal to these demolitions : ‘ If we pulled one down , he set up three . ’ |
| 14 | At the age of 22 he set up shop in Sweeting 's Alley , which was near the Royal Exchange . |
| 15 | He set up as a freelance industrial designer making furniture from a basement studio in 1952 . |
| 16 | He set up an organisation called BSC Industry , which had the prime task of counselling redundant steel workers , retraining them and helping them to redirect their careers and , in many instances , set up their own small businesses . |
| 17 | Welsh- Pearson , the company he set up in 1915 , remained small , making only three or four films a year , thus resisting the pressures for mass production that prevailed at the larger studios . |
| 18 | In order to wean the company away from a reliance on theatre plays , he set up a major script department which drew on the talents of writers like Frank Launder , Sidney Gilliatt , Val Guest and Michael Pertwee , as well as occasionally giving jobs to young writers like Christopher Isherwood . |
| 19 | In order to ensure that every department at the studio was of the best , he set up training schemes for new entrants to the industry . |
| 20 | In 1847 he set up his own practice in Truro and designed the Old Rectory when he was only twenty-four years old . |
| 21 | In Figueres , his Catalan hometown , he set up his own museum ( which has also become his mausoleum since his death two years ago ) , with its own foundation to administer it . |
| 22 | It 's now ten years since he set up Some Bizzare , and in that time he has enticed Matt Johnson , You 've Got Foetus On Your Breath , Psychic TV , Einstuerzende Neubauten and Berlin-born cabaret singer Anges Bernelle into his entourage . |
| 23 | He set up on his own because the company he worked for , Top Man , did n't really know what was going on , on a street level . |
| 24 | Soon he set up his own lecture school . |
| 25 | After qualifying , he settled at Bath , where he set up one of the first acute psychiatric units in a general hospital in the country . |
| 26 | He set up a hat-trick of tries for Spiller , one a beauty which originated with his devastating break from deep within his own half . |
| 27 | He set up the first try with a fine break after 11 minutes , for Lloyd to round off the move with an impudent dummy . |
| 28 | He set up Merson 's first with a bit of right wing trickery after Palace had had the audacity to take an eighth minute lead and then laid on Campbell 's stunning left foot volley , Arsenal 's third , all in the first 16 minutes . |
| 29 | Later he set up his own research centre , the Glynn Research Laboratories in Cornwall . |
| 30 | While he was still in his twenties he set up his own factory in Welwyn Garden City and became a millionaire . |