Example sentences of "[noun sg] set [pn reflx] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | In this case , as in others , television docudrama set itself up as the tidier and balancer of history . |
2 | Where did he get the money to set himself up with a yacht in Burnham-on-bloody-Crouch if it was n't a pay-off from Maurice Abberley for services rendered ? ’ |
3 | ‘ And then , after the war , the newly formed High Council set themselves up as the Time Lords . ’ |
4 | In 58 ‘ your slave ’ , ‘ your vassal ’ is ready to swallow any insult or neglect , the poem concluding : The second-person pronouns come so thick and fast here that we can not miss the bitter criticism of the Friend setting himself up as a law unto himself , becoming so entirely obsessed with his own pleasures that he betrays their relationship . |
5 | Konitz acknowledges that there is some basis in his history for this view : he and his 1950s musical guru , the pianist Lennie Tristano , in a sense set themselves up as a ( white ) alternative school to bebop : ‘ Tristano was keen to prove that whites could play jazz , though Charlie Parker , Lester Young and Louis Armstrong were his heroes . |
6 | There was little enthusiasm , then , as the paper moved towards the alien financial world of the City to set itself up as a public limited company . |