Example sentences of "[vb past] set [pers pn] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We agreed to set it up at the last meeting . |
| 2 | The old fear lurked at the back of his mind : suppose Lorton had set him up for Newley 's murder ? |
| 3 | When Margie had mentioned his association with Greg Martin , the financier who had made him the loan which had set him up in a small showroom and enabled him to move the sewing machines out of the living room and into a work room , Hugo became not so much evasive as totally silent . |
| 4 | Lately he had been troubled by rheumatism brought on by the damp in the house , and his doctor had set him up in sleeping quarters on the ground floor with independent heating arrangements . |
| 5 | They had previously won compensation of 1 million yen each for eight former employees dismissed in the ‘ red purge ’ and had set them up in business near the company 's housing project . |
| 6 | Zeinab had set it up for Owen to meet her theatrical friends at their usual cafe and as she and Owen turned into the square , there they were , occupying their usual tables on the edge of the pavement . |
| 7 | ‘ He wanted to set me up in a flat he said he owned . |