Example sentences of "set up [pron] [noun] in [art] " in BNC.

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1 Actors in travelling companies used to set up their stage in a town or village , mix among the inhabitants , watching and listening to the local news , gossip and scandal .
2 Yet by March the next year , Brian Courtenay had set up his mistress in the luxury love nest that would help to empty the family coffers .
3 During the time of Rudolf II and later it was used like some grand art market , the stall-holders setting up their wares in the window embrasures .
4 Certainly when I was setting up my studio in the country , the nice thing was that we did n't do anything standard ; we did n't take anything for granted , whether it was mics , positions of drums or anything .
5 Last spring , a whitethroat set up its territory in a field of rape near my home .
6 He let two male sticklebacks , a and b , set up their territories in an aquarium .
7 After the fiasco over the programmes I shall take full control of this project and set up my headquarters in the Jessie Matthews Lounge at the Duck and Forceps .
8 A world was coming in which it would almost certainly never again be possible to walk quietly , as Frederica and Alexander walked , through the village where Van Gogh tramped and set up his easel in the clean dust .
9 Caxton had learned the art of printing from movable types in Cologne , and set up his press in the abbey precincts , close to the chapter house , where he printed books under the patronage of the English kings Edward IV , Richard III and Henry VII .
10 It was nearly dark when he arrived at Stobs and set up his equipment in a previously selected position above a deep cutting on the Whitrope side of the station .
11 On the near corner is the shop where Simpson set up his business in the 1840s — which later became the firm of Simpson , Maule & Nicholson .
12 The latter set up his artillery in the Broyle and bombarded the defendants for eight days before resistance collapsed .
13 Tony set up his tripod in a snow drift and started to contemplate a shot , so we left him to it and visited the town 's Polar Museum .
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