Example sentences of "set [pers pn] up in [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ He wanted to set me up in a flat he said he owned .
2 ‘ If only I had the means to set you up in a house where I could visit you . ’
3 Patrick was studying medicine , and it was her wish to set him up in a practice of his own one day .
4 The aim was to separate the individual membership section of the Party from the unions and to set it up in a relationship reminiscent of that with the ILP before 1932 .
5 Got ta set them up in the machine room .
6 When he divorced a wife he would set her up in a house of her own with her children ; and as his twenty-seven sons came to maturity he directed them into various different occupations , to ensure a spread of enterprise which would be useful to all of them .
7 Regarding the Marshall , I criticised the fact that you could n't set it up in a rack with , say , a radio system and leave it rigged , because you 'd have to unplug it every time you used it .
8 You do it down there , you set it up in the middle and you set it up really nice and cosy .
9 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 .
10 He sets it up in the living room .
11 From McIntosh 's point of view it was not an easy decision to pull out of institutional sector research as he was involved in setting it up in the mid '70s .
12 It was difficult to abandon the RPF precisely because de Gaulle had so compromised himself and his unique prestige by setting it up in the first place , by fighting elections , and by being a politician " like the others " .
13 Mr Anderson therefore gave him the Hailing Ferry in perpetuity and set him up in a shed selling chandlery to the barge owners .
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