Example sentences of "[coord] set up [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But normally either the land was eventually to be divided equally between the children or , more typically where land was scarcer , the land itself would go to a single son and provision be made for the other children in cash — very often advanced earlier in life , on marriage or to set up in a trade . |
| 2 | The Buddha of Suburbia is about filling that vacuum , which Karim 's father does by leaving his wife for his single-breasted girlfriend and setting up as a Bromley guru , or escaping from it , which Karim himself does by moving north of the river in search of new mainly sexual , experience . |
| 3 | At sixteen he ran away from Harrow , and set up as a film director , work which took him to central Europe and east Africa , but proved financially unrewarding . |
| 4 | In 1889 he left the lace business in search of larger fortunes and set up as a stockbroker in Nottingham . |
| 5 | In 1799 , having decided that strict attention to work was undermining his health , Edwards turned his business over to R. H. Evans [ q.v. ] and set up as a gentleman collector . |
| 6 | He fled to Cyprus without his wife and set up as a storekeeper and contractor . |