Example sentences of "[adj] set up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had planned to buy a flat with Geraldine but realized that if — no , when — John came back I would rather have a home all set up for him . |
| 2 | We were all set up for it in Britain : a Labour government anti-nuclear movement swinging along on borrowed money with Carnaby Street and the Beatles — they were going to bring World Peace all by themselves — fat dumb and happy . |
| 3 | ‘ The youth policy is now firmly on the way , and no matter who comes to take charge , it 's all set up for them ’ |
| 4 | We are all set up for the perfect ending for George to live in peace while Lennie , tended the rabbits , but somehow the author still made it seem impossible as there was always trouble brewing for them . |
| 5 | So we are all set up with booze , sex , unrequited love , thoughts of separation , ambiguous sexual status , a grand piano for the singing of old songs and a sniffy Law dispensing trifle with a gimlet stare . |
| 6 | Calero mentioned that the American revolutionaries too had front companies like those set up under the Enterprise , established in Europe to take in money from France and Spain . |
| 7 | Between the build-up to the national railway dispute in 1907 and the end of 1909 no fewer than sixty-seven new boards were established , not including those set up as part of the settlement of the rail strike itself . |
| 8 | Proposals by the neighbouring countries for the establishment of so-called safe havens ( similar to those set up for Kurdish civilians after the Gulf war ) were not taken up either , largely because they required the deployment of ground troops , for which there was no consensus . |
| 9 | The Spanish system is modelled on those set up in the U.S. ( Indemnity Act of 1975 ) and the U.K. ( National Indemnity act of 1980 ) . |