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

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31 Some of Middleton 's slag had been used to build Darlington 's roads the famous blue scorriae bricks that line the town centre yards and back alleys are made from slag and when the RAF set up at Goosepool , the rest of the heaps were turned into runways .
32 Belgium and Holland may be considered together ; both were ‘ new nations ’ created by splitting the kingdom of the Netherlands set up in 1815 .
33 In 1862 Smith set up in business on his own account .
34 Mattocks Roses go back 4 generations to 1875 when Mark 's great grand-father , John Mattock set up in business in Headington in Oxford .
35 Leaving Gossage in 1865 Hargreaves worked for two other soap manufacturers in Runcorn and Liverpool ; in 1871 he and his youngest brother John set up as consulting chemists in Widnes .
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