Example sentences of "[pron] set up a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I set up a solicitor two months after I 'd finished the the assignment . |
| 2 | In 1932 she set up a facility at the Settlement Hall in Newport Road , teaching children basic skills , walking , and speech therapy . |
| 3 | She set up a bedside vigil , had special drugs imported from Germany , played him his favourite music and discouraged everyone else from visiting , including his own children . |
| 4 | When that right was withdrawn by Cromwell , who set up a licensing system for books and newspapers , the poet Milton uttered his immortal cry for press freedom , the " Areopagitica " : " Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature . |
| 5 | Among them was an American , John Longyear , who set up a mining operation on the shores of Isfjorden . |
| 6 | The restoration has been further financed by a subsidy of DFl.130,000 ( £40,625 ; $70,684 ) from the Ministry of Culture as well as by contributions from the owners of the villas who set up a foundation specifically for the purpose . |
| 7 | Security forces in Northern Ireland are hunting a woman in black who set up a U D R soldier for murder at the garage where he worked . |
| 8 | That could well be the motto of Miss Pam Bosworth , who set up a hat hire business because her friends kept borrowing from her wardrobe . |
| 9 | A SNAKE handler who set up a group to dispel people 's fear of the reptiles was killed by a bite from his Egyptian cobra . |
| 10 | A milkman who set up a round in competition with his old dairy firm has won a legal battle to continue his business for the time being . |
| 11 | Erm and so they set up a team erm four or five teams within the city , er which included Radford , the Crabtree Meadows area , erm and Bestwood area |
| 12 | He set up a beehive barricade as bulldozers moved in to dig a pipeline near his land . |
| 13 | On returning to Vietnam , he wasted no time in spreading his knowledge , and when the Japanese invaded , he set up a guerrilla resistance force , the Viet Cong , to fight the invaders . |
| 14 | In the 1860s Spence became interested in copper smelting , and in 1866 he set up a company in Gode to develop his ideas . |
| 15 | Do you know , at Fontainebleau he set up a system of mirrors so he could watch his young ladies pose and inspect them from every angle , whilst his palaces were full of secret passageways with peep-holes in every bedroom for Francis was deeply interested in the sexual exploits of others . |
| 16 | He set up a pile of cushions on the sofa and propped two telephone directories against them . |
| 17 | In fact it was at this time just as the United States was beginning to take up his Girls that he set up a school there . |
| 18 | He set up a settlement there and named it Isabella . |
| 19 | In about 1784 he set up a press there , and founded an ambitious system of circulating libraries ; to anyone wishing to set one up he offered a stock of books , a catalogue , and instructions . |
| 20 | He set up a Press release and organised a Press Announcement to be made in London at The Natural History Museum . |
| 21 | He set up a couple himself but also put some big money into a facilities house that hired out videotape machines , camera crews , and picture editing . |
| 22 | He set up a test area in the Hawthorne Plant of the General Electric Company , where telephone relays were made . |
| 23 | Ginger 's greatest single claim to fame is that he set up a record for an inside-forward that has never been beaten at our club , when he scored five goals in the game against Southend at The Palace on 25 September 1909 . |
| 24 | On the contrary , at government expense , he set up a Kyoto institute of nationalist historical anthropology to demonstrate the spiritual civilization that supposedly provides the source of the modern Japanese . |
| 25 | The court heard he set up a bank account with the Royal Bank of Scotland in Darlington in the name of Momen Garawand and then used cheque books to spend almost £6,500 . |
| 26 | Fothergill was a doctor and in 1740 he set up a practice in White Hart Street very near the Collinson establishment and flowers from Peckham might well have adorned yet another house in the City . |
| 27 | The same day he set up a Cabinet committee to investigate such a union and Helmut Haussmann , the West German Economics Minister , presented a three-stage plan to introduce economic and monetary union by the end of 1992 . |
| 28 | Co-operative or not , Cotterell was obviously in charge and not to be messed about with while he set up a commission . |
| 29 | He set up a Christmas Carnival , taking over the entire St James 's hall and theatre complex , putting on side shows and trade exhibits . |
| 30 | He set up a hat-trick of tries for Spiller , one a beauty which originated with his devastating break from deep within his own half . |