Example sentences of "set up [noun sg] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Joseph Truman , ‘ based on papers now lost ’ , is said to have set up business as a brewer in 1666 , the year of the Great Fire of London .
2 His Celtic tones were complemented by those of Jim Naughtie himself , who had set up shop in an attic room of the Grand , but who had been spending much of the ‘ happy hour ’ between six and seven trawling for ‘ vox pop ’ .
3 And , like Sir Geoffrey and Mr Heseltine , he routinely sets up federalism as a straw man to knock down .
4 And , like Sir Geoffrey and Mr Heseltine , he routinely sets up federalism as a straw man to knock down .
5 If women want to spend their lives with something that is slim , sanitary and sensitive , perhaps they should consider setting up home with a thermometer dipped in Dettol .
6 ‘ If you are staying some while , sir , you must tell it me privately , ’ Mary said , ‘ since I am setting up shop as a connoisseur of grave stories . ’
7 Picking up the pieces was no easy task but Connors was one of the first traders to get back on its feet , temporarily setting up shop in a portacabin .
8 J. Chapman , Sledmere Drive , Acklam , Middlesbrough : I was a final year pharmacy student in Sunderland and I was setting up apparatus for a chemistry experiment , when another student came in with the sad news that the King had died .
9 PEARS : Andrew Pears , son of a Cornish farmer , set up shop as a hairdresser in Soho in 1789 and began developing a more gentle soap than the harsh ones then used .
10 When Ernest set up shop as a photographer , she had gone to work as his assistant and their friendship blossomed into romance .
11 He set up shop as a publisher and on 26 August 1594 married Jayne Vrique ; a son , Isaac , was baptized on 19 April 1595 ; three other children , Thomas , Joan , and Alice , figure in his will .
12 Hickman set up practice as a surgeon in Ludlow .
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