Example sentences of "set up house [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surveying reports on the relevant customary behaviour in 350 separate ‘ societies ’ , Tylor was able to demonstrate that , when the newlyweds set up house with the wife 's kin , avoidance behaviour between the latter and the husband occurred more frequently than could be expected on the basis of mere chance . |
| 2 | Would it , he was thinking , be like the ending of Forster 's as yet unpublished Maurice , a somewhat tame homo novel of which he was to say , commenting on the male lovers setting up house at the end , ‘ I give it three weeks ? ’ |
| 3 | You did not go off and set up house with the man in your life and perhaps think about marriage if it seemed like a good idea , after a year or two . |
| 4 | In their second year , Robyn and Charles moved off campus and set up house in a small flat in Brighton , commuting to the University by local train . |
| 5 | Anyway , the Tallentires never gave up their music because when Grandfather Tallentire set up house in a little farm called Northside he went to buy an organ but took a fancy to a piano and came back with that instead . |