Example sentences of "[conj] he set [adv prt] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In fact it was at this time just as the United States was beginning to take up his Girls that he set up a school there .
2 Ginger 's greatest single claim to fame is that he set up a record for an inside-forward that has never been beaten at our club , when he scored five goals in the game against Southend at The Palace on 25 September 1909 .
3 She said Mr Venables had turned Tottenham into a family club , adding : ‘ He always talks to us and he set up a creche at the club . ’
4 Co-operative or not , Cotterell was obviously in charge and not to be messed about with while he set up a commission .
5 Johnnie Armstrong of Gilnockie had defied an agreement between the Wardens of the Marches that no building should be erected by either side within the confines of the Debatable Land when he set up a tower above the Esk .
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