Example sentences of "and set [adv prt] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Herringman is probably best known as the publisher of John Dryden [ q.v. ] , but his first enterprising move was to purchase the stock of John Holden , who had died in May 1652 , and to set up business at Holden 's former shop at the Blue Anchor in the Lower Walk , New Exchange , during 1653 .
2 Duties include preparing apparatus and setting up equipment for use in practical classes .
3 Official sources claimed that John Garang , the commander of the " Torit faction " of the Sudanese People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) , and other leaders had escaped from the town and set up headquarters in Kajokaji , in the border region .
4 So they scanned the local horizon and set up agreements with Strathclyde for management skills , Napier Poly for plastic skills , Paisley College of Technology for Materials skills , and so on .
5 Johnson & Johnson chief executive Frank De Angeli did a management buy-out and set up Devro in Scotland , where it quickly become a major exporter world wide .
6 Take himself off to Yzordderrex and set up business with Peccable ; marry Hoi-Polloi despite her crossed eyes ; have a litter of kids and retire to the Hills of the Conscious Cloud , in the Third , and raise parrots .
7 , John ( 1772–1842 ) , architect , born in 1772 , was a pupil of Thomas Hardwick [ q.v. ] and set up practice in London in 1796 .
8 The 96-article " Statutes Governing Relations Between People in the Taiwan Region and People in the Mainland Region " opened the way for visits to Taiwan by Chinese communists , and set out regulations for cross-strait marriages , divorces , inheritance and employment of workers from the mainland .
9 According to the report the SSPV , led by Nguyen Kiet , had planned to assassinate a number of high-ranking officials and set off bombs near Ho Chi Minh 's mausoleum on Sept. 2 , Vietnam 's national day .
10 Detaching his fifty Dalwolsey men to add to Moray 's two hundred , he said farewell to the Regent , Douglas and the others , and set off north by east , up Liddesdale .
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