Example sentences of "set he [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When an attempt is made to set him up as a Saint , it is scarcely possible for any man of good sense who knows the history of his times to preserve his gravity . |
| 2 | His family could n't afford to set him up as an independent farmer . |
| 3 | Patrick was studying medicine , and it was her wish to set him up in a practice of his own one day . |
| 4 | It sets out , by example as well as by direct command , the differences between right and wrong , so that the man who measures his conduct by Bible standards gains from it both " reproof " when he is in the wrong and " correction " to set him back on a right course . |
| 5 | It is not known who gave him the letter but it was to set him off on the road to fame and fortune . |
| 6 | Early last week the Sun apologised for saying he had never had a real job , but in truth a four-year stint as a tutor organiser in industrial and trade unions at the Workers ' Educational Association 25 years ago does not exactly set him up for a glittering new career . |
| 7 | That would set him up for a world title shot at the end of this year in Belfast . |
| 8 | That would set him up for a world title shot at the end of this year in Belfast . |
| 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 has to compose around something , so his isolating ( once strident ) individualism sets him up for a Bowiesque plummet into British nationalism and a flirtation with racism with overtures to the Nazis . |
| 11 | But Tony 's sparkling form at England B level is sure to give him the left wing spot and set him up for the Test against Canada on October 17 . |
| 12 | Mr Anderson therefore gave him the Hailing Ferry in perpetuity and set him up in a shed selling chandlery to the barge owners . |
| 13 | Nick set him down on the terrace and he rushed indoors . |