Example sentences of "set up home " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd set up home wherever we were . ’ |
| 2 | For the past five days now she had been living somewhere on cloud nine , and had decided that she might just as well set up home there , as it was such a wonderful place to be . |
| 3 | Said waitress promptly decamps to the vacant love nest where she swiftly sets up home , insisting to the locals that she is Newton 's new spouse . |
| 4 | Anyway , one of them escapes and sets up home in an abandoned but working car-wash in Hayes , Middlesex , while the rest die of starvation in the internment cells . " |
| 5 | The Transkei 's military leader , Major General Bantu Holomisa , said yesterday that he had no objection to Mr Mandela setting up home in his territory . |
| 6 | He was already into the champagne and mansion bracket up in the hills and very soon began his first famous relationship , setting up home with Joan Collins . |
| 7 | He would n't say what was n't working out , though I guess it was the sexual frustration and not being able to put a date on setting up home together . |
| 8 | In other cases he remains cut off , although he may then recover well enough physically and mentally to start a new life , perhaps even setting up home with someone else and taking on a new job . |
| 9 | Family and friends are drawn together to witness the covenant and contract the couple make , to launch them into their new life together , and to provide practical help in setting up home . |
| 10 | And that ma of course erm posed problems for people just getting married or setting up home or people who had lost their homes due to bombing . |
| 11 | In the beginning priority was given to those setting up home for the first time , families with young children , and people who had lost their homes and furniture through enemy action . |
| 12 | I will discuss past and likely future trends in households and housing , and give particular attention to the experience of young people setting up home for the first time . |
| 13 | It should be something useful for setting up home , if only a rather expensive bottle-opener , possibly with other small mementoes of his favourite bachelor activities or sport such as golf balls , presented inside something amusing and clearly feminine but not in bad taste , such as a pair of stockings , with a blue garter for him to give to his bride for the wedding so that she can wear ‘ something borrowed , something blue , . |
| 14 | The gift presented should be one of value and usefulness for setting up home ( so that she is not disappointed ) , perhaps with a memento of her bachelor days , such as a cassette by her favourite pop singers , but inside a container gift which is a joke , e.g. a silver cake slice , or selection of kitchen implements , or telephone address book , plus cassettes in the bottom of a pair of large man 's football socks ( the correct size to fit her husband to be ) , or a pair of pillowcases embroidered ‘ his ’ and ‘ hers ’ . |
| 15 | It would probably be an area acceptable to those contemplating setting up home anew on retirement , and their previous homes would then be freed to each new generation of wealth-producers . |
| 16 | All the costs of getting a mortgage , moving and setting up home can run into thousands . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Having fallen in love with each other , the couple are now setting up home together at lightning speed . |
| 19 | and , and kind of transporting themselves elsewhere , and setting up home elsewhere . |
| 20 | ‘ All I meant was that I find it hard to imagine myself setting up home with someone else again . ’ |
| 21 | Some day , she supposed , Fen would be setting up home there with his girlfriend , and the less she knew about the interior of Chimneys the less material her jealous imagination would have to fester upon . |
| 22 | Many of them fled to neighbouring parishes where the manorial structure was far weaker and poor immigrants were not prevented from setting up home . |
| 23 | It is , as my colleague in the Establishment Division remarked , shaking his head sagely , when I made application to him , ‘ a difficult time to be setting up home ’ . |
| 24 | Er Brides and Setting up Home , no that 's not the whole year , that oh she 's just talking what we 've spent so far . |
| 25 | Brides and Setting up Home is something like five hundred pounds is n't it . |
| 26 | ‘ Homesickness only strikes occasionally now , but when I first arrived in February and setting up home here seemed so alien I was often mopey . ’ |
| 27 | Young married couples setting up home have the daunting task of choosing all the major electrical equipment at once . |
| 28 | To help out couples with the expense of setting up home Gilmore 's have a special discount scheme . |
| 29 | The key decisions in setting up home |
| 30 | SETTING up home can be a very expensive business . |