Example sentences of "[verb] set [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He tried to set up as a fridge and freezer engineer , but that did n't work . |
| 2 | He intends to set up as a PR and communications consultant , freelance writer and designer . |
| 3 | If they did set out on a journey , it was usually on business or a pilgrimage or to go to war . |
| 4 | You 've set up as a designer in your own right , Gary ! ’ |
| 5 | Jake , by contrast , quite independently of his father , who had also made his fortune in the building industry , had set up as a building contractor on his own . |
| 6 | Violette had set up as a paper restorer , an arcane occupation which took precise scientific skill but involved her in outlandish escapades with police and businessmen or lawyers . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's terrible that all these quacks can come along without proper qualifications , ’ Lipsky complained , forgetting that he himself had set up as a dentist without qualifications , there being as yet no legal requirement for special training as there was for doctors . |
| 8 | Headed by Iqbal Riza , a Pakistani UN political officer , and Philippe Texier , a French senior appellate court judge , this was the first mission of its type the UN had set up inside a member country [ see p. 38187 ] . |
| 9 | Sheriff Principal Robert Hay was told how Mr Watts , of Preston , Lancs , had set out on a week-end jaunt on the fatal day . |
| 10 | In Dew v. Parsons ( 1819 ) 2 B. & Ald. 562 an attorney was held entitled to set off against a claim by a sheriff the excess amount which he had paid to the sheriff for the issue of warrants over what the sheriff was legally entitled to charge . |
| 11 | I recently bought a 4ft aquarium , which I have set up as a community tank . |
| 12 | Even in Wales , where gloom and doom should have been the order of the next year or two , the clubs have set off in a style which has brought , instead , a nervous smile or two . |
| 13 | The Football Supporters Association have set out on a project to democratise the game , taking control of the clubs and institutions that so ruthlessly exploit their support . |