Example sentences of "he set [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Shah was equal to these demolitions : ‘ If we pulled one down , he set up three . ’ |
| 2 | At the age of 22 he set up shop in Sweeting 's Alley , which was near the Royal Exchange . |
| 3 | He set up as a freelance industrial designer making furniture from a basement studio in 1952 . |
| 4 | He set up an organisation called BSC Industry , which had the prime task of counselling redundant steel workers , retraining them and helping them to redirect their careers and , in many instances , set up their own small businesses . |
| 5 | Welsh- Pearson , the company he set up in 1915 , remained small , making only three or four films a year , thus resisting the pressures for mass production that prevailed at the larger studios . |
| 6 | In order to wean the company away from a reliance on theatre plays , he set up a major script department which drew on the talents of writers like Frank Launder , Sidney Gilliatt , Val Guest and Michael Pertwee , as well as occasionally giving jobs to young writers like Christopher Isherwood . |
| 7 | In order to ensure that every department at the studio was of the best , he set up training schemes for new entrants to the industry . |
| 8 | In 1847 he set up his own practice in Truro and designed the Old Rectory when he was only twenty-four years old . |
| 9 | In Figueres , his Catalan hometown , he set up his own museum ( which has also become his mausoleum since his death two years ago ) , with its own foundation to administer it . |
| 10 | It 's now ten years since he set up Some Bizzare , and in that time he has enticed Matt Johnson , You 've Got Foetus On Your Breath , Psychic TV , Einstuerzende Neubauten and Berlin-born cabaret singer Anges Bernelle into his entourage . |
| 11 | He set up on his own because the company he worked for , Top Man , did n't really know what was going on , on a street level . |
| 12 | Soon he set up his own lecture school . |
| 13 | After qualifying , he settled at Bath , where he set up one of the first acute psychiatric units in a general hospital in the country . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He set up the first try with a fine break after 11 minutes , for Lloyd to round off the move with an impudent dummy . |
| 16 | He set up Merson 's first with a bit of right wing trickery after Palace had had the audacity to take an eighth minute lead and then laid on Campbell 's stunning left foot volley , Arsenal 's third , all in the first 16 minutes . |
| 17 | Later he set up his own research centre , the Glynn Research Laboratories in Cornwall . |
| 18 | While he was still in his twenties he set up his own factory in Welwyn Garden City and became a millionaire . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The ability to read and write was confined to churchmen ( this was common throughout the whole of northern Europe ) , not even William or his Norman Barons were able to read , so William appointed Lanfranc as Archbishop of Canterbury and he set up a diocesan pattern which endured and encouraged the growth of ecclesiastical courts of law and a succession of ‘ clerks ’ who became the forerunners of the civil servants . |
| 21 | ‘ As a matter of fact , he set up in business for himself — not far away , in Mile End . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | There he set up a small photographic portrait business , and made some early forays into recording ethnic ‘ types ’ and customs . |
| 24 | When he returned from exile , he was fired with the wish to help his country catch up with the advanced industrial countries of the west , so he set up the Czech Industrial Museum in his family brewery . |
| 25 | He set up in business as an antique dealer but , according to Herbert Cranko , ‘ seems to have loved his stock more than his customers , often refusing to sell a cherished piece to a disliked buyer ’ . |
| 26 | After leaving university he set up a roadying business on the government 's Enterprise Allowance Scheme . |
| 27 | When he set up Channel 4 , he was given a mandate to have a very significant chunk as education , which was n't his background . |
| 28 | He set up Whiddett for a header just wide of the mark before being booked with Ecchinswell 's Dean Nelson for retaliating after the latter had put in a late tackle . |
| 29 | He had completed his articles with James Edmeston of Bishopsgate before he was twenty , and was involved in several large building projects including Hungerford Market and the Fishmongers Hall ( 1831–4 ) when he worked for Henry Roberts , before he set up on his own . |
| 30 | He set up his school , St. Enda 's , in 1908 to show by example how a bilingual school in Irish and English could work . |