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Example sentences of "[verb] set [pron] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1	Er , but I mean , everything you do is , is designed to set yourself up in the best possible position for when the staff come in and , and throughout the shift leaving it as best you can for the branch manager the next day .
2	He has set himself up as a left-wing leader taking on the Government , ’ Mr Clarke said .
3	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 .
4	Engineer and motorbike enthusiast Terence Bird has set himself up as the sole European importer of Nanchang bikes .
5	‘ This has set me up for the rest of the season and now I can have a real crack at the England squad , ’ he said .
6	I fear that our nation has set itself up for a decade of national strife .
7	Not so for Locke , you will recall that so f the way Locke sets it up is a legitimate civil society is first established by a social contract and that creates a community , a body politic , which has a capacity to act , and I 'll put a little question mark over that shortly , erm and that community then as a separate act sets up a government which , because it has set it up as a trust , erm it can change or dismiss pretty well at will .
8	We agreed to set it up at the last meeting .
9	When an attempt is made to set him up as a Saint , it is scarcely possible for any man of good sense who knows the history of his times to preserve his gravity .
10	Riding on a high she had decided to set herself up as an independent designer .
11	Anna Wolska , heiress to the palace of Wilanow outside Warsaw , and the Potocki and Branicki collections in it , has offered to set it up as a public institution .
12	I have a 30 gallon corner tank , and would like to set it up for a Black Peacock , Pterois volitans .
13	Surely the place would have the mental institution would have set you up with a home or something when you left ?
14	Its excellent PR and the enthusiasm of the press might simply have set it up for a great fall if the use of its powers had proved to be weak or ineffective .
15	It was a great disappointment to me that when having set it up with an invitation couple or three years ago , about three members turned up , and I think that was very regrettable .
16	His family could n't afford to set him up as an independent farmer .
17	It 's not that he wishes to set himself up as a leader .
18	The manager had been trying to set himself up in the Business when he knew full well that Clive had the franchise .
19	In this area a number of small clothing-manufacturers had set themselves up since the war , migrating out from the East End of London .
20	Courtney had set himself up as a pioneer working with women victims of sex abuse , drug addiction and Aids problems .
21	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 .
22	When Margie had mentioned his association with Greg Martin , the financier who had made him the loan which had set him up in a small showroom and enabled him to move the sewing machines out of the living room and into a work room , Hugo became not so much evasive as totally silent .
23	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 .
24	‘ He wanted to set me up in a flat he said he owned .
25	It is easier to bring off if you have an assistant to hold the camcorder , otherwise , you have to set it up on a tripod or some other suitable support and switch it on with a remote control or time-delay .