Example sentences of "[v-ing] up shop [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one stage , he considered closing up shop for good . |
| 2 | There 's a theatre marketing which is closing it , well , sort of shutting up shop at the end of the month , maybe |
| 3 | Shoemender Brian Webb is setting up shop at Preston Park Museum , Eaglescliffe , for the day , to demonstrate the traditional and fast dying out craft of cobbling . |
| 4 | ‘ If you are staying some while , sir , you must tell it me privately , ’ Mary said , ‘ since I am setting up shop as a connoisseur of grave stories . ’ |
| 5 | It recently undertook such a project for a major oil company which was setting up shop in Moscow . |
| 6 | France 's Carrefour is also setting up shop in Britain . |
| 7 | SunPro is setting up shop in Europe to market software products geared towards software development . |
| 8 | The ‘ beware ’ is aimed most urgently at women , the chosen workforce of the multinational corporations who have begun setting up shop in Western ‘ enterprise zones ’ . |
| 9 | Picking up the pieces was no easy task but Connors was one of the first traders to get back on its feet , temporarily setting up shop in a portacabin . |