Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This reflection went far to set up Harry again in his own esteem , for it meant that Isambard had been sure of his victim 's obstinate silence even under torture ; more sure of it , if the truth were told , than Harry himself had been at the worst moment . |
| 2 | Now Betterware plans to set up shop elsewhere in Europe , with Spain the likely first stop . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | With the help of a legacy from Raisley Calvert [ q.v. ] , they set up house together at Racedown , Dorset ( 1795 ) . |
| 5 | We 've set up camp now on the bank . |
| 6 | These neutrons are setting off alarms all round your cerebral hemispheres . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Having fallen in love with each other , the couple are now setting up home together at lightning speed . |
| 10 | The present trend of setting up courses only in response to staff shortages will be superseded in the future by any forthcoming legal requirement , and so the administration of courses and the rationale behind them will have to change accordingly . |
| 11 | Instead of setting up situations either in the laboratory or in the field , the researcher studies what is already going on . |
| 12 | Going for world domination , WAC is setting up branches all over America with planned outposts in Amsterdam and Paris . |
| 13 | Out on a train in Cambodia they had even talked lightly of setting up Oz again in London , even as Neville filed stories back to Richard Walsh and Oz in Sydney . |
| 14 | The result of these rules of practice was that the English set up colonies only in places where it was relatively easy to do so , at first because the places they went to were thinly populated , then because political disintegration in India enabled them to advance there , and because in the last phase of imperial expansion they had the sort of technological superiority needed for bringing most African rulers under their control . |