Example sentences of "[pers pn] set up [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Realizing the kicks that many men get out of listening to women mouthing obscenities , he set up a unique telephone service to cater for the need and gave it the name Just Filmz Inc . |
| 33 | He set up a list of twelve components of skill , including such items as ‘ mental effort ’ , ‘ dexterity ’ , ‘ responsibility ’ , and ‘ decision making ’ , and a set of four broad levels of mechanisation . |
| 34 | He set up a beehive barricade as bulldozers moved in to dig a pipeline near his land . |
| 35 | He set up a test area in the Hawthorne Plant of the General Electric Company , where telephone relays were made . |
| 36 | He set up a select committee with the job of trying to devise a political settlement to the problem of Tamil separatism ; but it got nowhere . |
| 37 | 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 . ’ |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | He set up a pile of cushions on the sofa and propped two telephone directories against them . |
| 40 | Co-operative or not , Cotterell was obviously in charge and not to be messed about with while he set up a commission . |
| 41 | In 1961 he set up a working group , in the Ministry , ‘ to study the long term development of roads and traffic in urban areas and their influence on the urban environment ’ ; the leader was Colin Buchanan . |
| 42 | He set up a couple himself but also put some big money into a facilities house that hired out videotape machines , camera crews , and picture editing . |
| 43 | He set up a settlement there and named it Isabella . |
| 44 | After finishing his apprenticeship he set up a business with this uncle , but it failed . |
| 45 | In the 1860s Spence became interested in copper smelting , and in 1866 he set up a company in Gode to develop his ideas . |
| 46 | In about 1784 he set up a press there , and founded an ambitious system of circulating libraries ; to anyone wishing to set one up he offered a stock of books , a catalogue , and instructions . |
| 47 | On returning to Vietnam , he wasted no time in spreading his knowledge , and when the Japanese invaded , he set up a guerrilla resistance force , the Viet Cong , to fight the invaders . |
| 48 | Do you know , at Fontainebleau he set up a system of mirrors so he could watch his young ladies pose and inspect them from every angle , whilst his palaces were full of secret passageways with peep-holes in every bedroom for Francis was deeply interested in the sexual exploits of others . |
| 49 | The same day he set up a Cabinet committee to investigate such a union and Helmut Haussmann , the West German Economics Minister , presented a three-stage plan to introduce economic and monetary union by the end of 1992 . |
| 50 | He set up a Press release and organised a Press Announcement to be made in London at The Natural History Museum . |
| 51 | In January 1857 he set up a " Secret Committee on the Peasant Question " to discuss ways in which the abolition of serfdom might be achieved . |
| 52 | Before he set up a special fund for its upkeep it looked like this . |
| 53 | The court heard he set up a bank account with the Royal Bank of Scotland in Darlington in the name of Momen Garawand and then used cheque books to spend almost £6,500 . |
| 54 | He set up the first try with a fine break after 11 minutes , for Lloyd to round off the move with an impudent dummy . |
| 55 | When he returned from exile , he was fired with the wish to help his country catch up with the advanced industrial countries of the west , so he set up the Czech Industrial Museum in his family brewery . |
| 56 | He set up the TV Times coverage , and we all pretended to be having a wonderful time for the benefit of the camera . |
| 57 | And he set up the third , after 44 minutes , with a 20-yard effort that Strakosha could only shove out . |
| 58 | He set up the Koetser Foundation in Zurich in order to acquire Old Masters and donated seventy works to it . |
| 59 | ‘ My father was n't exactly short of money when he set up the trust . ’ |
| 60 | In 1880 he set up the Art Furnishers ' Alliance at Bond Street to sell ‘ artistic house furnishing material ’ . |