Example sentences of "to set [pron] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He wanted to set me up in a flat he said he owned . |
| 2 | Where several holes were to be tired it was possible to set them off in a desired order by lighting in appropriate sequence . |
| 3 | Yet to set ourselves up in such a manner contradicts our cherished notion of being part of the community . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He won enough to set himself up in his own business , so if you see a ‘ Terimon Cafe ’ on the outskirts of London you 'll know how it got the name . ’ |
| 5 | The manager had been trying to set himself up in the Business when he knew full well that Clive had the franchise . |
| 6 | Chramn used his position in Aquitaine to set himself up in opposition to his father , Chlothar I , who sent his half-brothers to destroy him . |
| 7 | ‘ If only I had the means to set you up in a house where I could visit you . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ When my name is cleared , ’ he said thoughtfully , ‘ I 'd like to set you up in better premises , supply you with as much leather as you need and get you an apprentice or two . ’ |
| 9 | Organisers say they hope to set one up in Darlington as it has the county 's highest proportion of ethnic minorities . |
| 10 | The alternative was to use her capital to set herself up in business . |
| 11 | Patrick was studying medicine , and it was her wish to set him up in a practice of his own one day . |
| 12 | An attempt in 1775 to set him up in Jamaica was no more enduring . |
| 13 | And , apparently , they 're going to set him up in some kind of arranged marriage . ’ |
| 14 | Anxious about his prospects of liberation , the slave Moschos went for a night of incubation to the temple and had a dream in which the divine pair Amphiaraus and Hygieia ordered him to write down what he had seen and to set it up in stone by the altar . |
| 15 | er and and and nice to know that we want to establish contact and you may be aware that we 've had this plan , and , and what we want it to achieve is so and so , and we 'd like to set it up in this way . |
| 16 | The aim was to separate the individual membership section of the Party from the unions and to set it up in a relationship reminiscent of that with the ILP before 1932 . |
| 17 | She had been going to set it loose in case it got too tame to fend for itself . |
| 18 | This was particularly so in Orkney where the income from the oil industry was being used by young Orcadians to set themselves up in farming . |
| 19 | As commercial disputants look to other means of settling disputes — tribunal , arbitration , alternative dispute resolution — it is hard enough that law firms are having to set themselves up in competition with non-lawyers to provide these services . |
| 20 | Er , but I mean , everything you do is , is designed to set yourself up in the best possible position for when the staff come in and , and throughout the shift leaving it as best you can for the branch manager the next day . |