Example sentences of "set [adv] shop " in BNC.
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| 1 | Westerners come and go , crowding into the Marriott , Warsaw 's only top-class hotel , but few bother to set up shop . |
| 2 | Wade Smith was given salesman of the year in January and promptly left to set up shop on his own . |
| 3 | Now Betterware plans to set up shop elsewhere in Europe , with Spain the likely first stop . |
| 4 | Should both the Clacton and Harwich travel-to-work areas receive assisted area status firms can be given grants to set up shop in the area . |
| 5 | There was nothing capricious about Mendoros ' choice of Britain as the place to set up shop . |
| 6 | Bishop Auckland friers grumbled in 1936 that unskilled rivals were coming off the dole to set up shop . |
| 7 | A HAMBLETON businessman is to set up shop outside the area after allegedly being given a rough ride by the district council . |
| 8 | In the last BT sale in December 1991 only eight organisations volunteered to set up shops , which provided low-cost , no-frills share dealing . |
| 9 | Perhaps the first task facing Mr Chris Patten , or whoever takes over from the current Governor , Lord Wilson , will be to break the deadlock over whether the People 's Liberation Army of China should set up shop in the glossy commercial heart of Hong Kong island . |
| 10 | While Russia is an area of interest , he does n't believe Coda will set up shop there over the next couple of years at least , until economic stability is re-established . |
| 11 | Any more and I could set up shop ! ’ |
| 12 | Liverpool Street has changed enormously in recent years , but those who remember the taxi ramp leading into the station from the old Broad Street side will recognise immediately where the RCM set up shop . |
| 13 | American Technologies set up shop in Warsaw in 1990 , and is best known as one of two local distributors of printers from IBM Corp spin-out Lexmark International Inc . |
| 14 | This week , the company opened its first European office in London to serve US expatriates and UK investors with an eye on the US market — locking horns in the process with its main American rival , Fidelity Brokerage , which set up shop in the UK four years ago . |
| 15 | A recent study by the University of Michigan suggests that 90% of the parts in Japanese cars built in America come either direct from Japan or from Japanese manufacturers which have set up shop in the United States . |
| 16 | Some claim that Disney should have set up shop in sunny Spain rather than chilly Paris . |
| 17 | The hypocrites could continue their spiel for ever , but are destroyed by forces from outside , notably the unexpected return of the master of the house in which they have set up shop . |
| 18 | The SIR in question is Systems Integrated Research which has recently set up shop in the UK . |
| 19 | Antoinette was the best of the Leicester modistes , run by a little French émigrée who had set up shop and named it in memory of her martyred Queen . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | It is n't hard to see here , once again , Pound 's baffled exasperation that , instead of setting up shop as maître d'école , ‘ the very learned British Museum assistant ’ should resolutely duck back into doing such a worthy and humane but undoubtedly over-modest activity as editing such of the letters of his old friend Hewlett as could not conceivably give offence . |
| 22 | Setting up shop |
| 23 | West Country Living : Putting great store in setting up shop Cheryl Taylor on the lure of cottage industry for restless townies |
| 24 | It recently undertook such a project for a major oil company which was setting up shop in Moscow . |
| 25 | France 's Carrefour is also setting up shop in Britain . |
| 26 | SunPro is setting up shop in Europe to market software products geared towards software development . |
| 27 | Banker 's guide to setting up shop |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 29 | The ‘ beware ’ is aimed most urgently at women , the chosen workforce of the multinational corporations who have begun setting up shop in Western ‘ enterprise zones ’ . |
| 30 | 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 . |