Example sentences of "set up [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To find out what potential customers think of Foodbase , we asked Steve to set up stall in a local health food shop . |
| 2 | It was because of events like that at Castlemorton Common near Malvern in May , when around 20,000 travellers set up camp for an illegal Bank Holiday festival , that the Government announced tough new measures to deal with illegal encampments . |
| 3 | The one thing that these , and other applications have in common , is a measurement of the Hall effect , in which , in certain circumstances , a voltage is set up perpendicular to a magnetic field and a current passing through a material . |
| 4 | Joseph Truman , ‘ based on papers now lost ’ , is said to have set up business as a brewer in 1666 , the year of the Great Fire of London . |
| 5 | His Celtic tones were complemented by those of Jim Naughtie himself , who had set up shop in an attic room of the Grand , but who had been spending much of the ‘ happy hour ’ between six and seven trawling for ‘ vox pop ’ . |
| 6 | Anyway , one of them escapes and sets up home in an abandoned but working car-wash in Hayes , Middlesex , while the rest die of starvation in the internment cells . " |
| 7 | And , like Sir Geoffrey and Mr Heseltine , he routinely sets up federalism as a straw man to knock down . |
| 8 | And , like Sir Geoffrey and Mr Heseltine , he routinely sets up federalism as a straw man to knock down . |
| 9 | Radchenko was the creator , moving into the penalty area before setting up Piatnitski for a simple finish . |
| 10 | If women want to spend their lives with something that is slim , sanitary and sensitive , perhaps they should consider setting up home with a thermometer dipped in Dettol . |
| 11 | ‘ If you are staying some while , sir , you must tell it me privately , ’ Mary said , ‘ since I am setting up shop as a connoisseur of grave stories . ’ |
| 12 | Picking up the pieces was no easy task but Connors was one of the first traders to get back on its feet , temporarily setting up shop in a portacabin . |
| 13 | J. Chapman , Sledmere Drive , Acklam , Middlesbrough : I was a final year pharmacy student in Sunderland and I was setting up apparatus for a chemistry experiment , when another student came in with the sad news that the King had died . |
| 14 | PEARS : Andrew Pears , son of a Cornish farmer , set up shop as a hairdresser in Soho in 1789 and began developing a more gentle soap than the harsh ones then used . |
| 15 | When Ernest set up shop as a photographer , she had gone to work as his assistant and their friendship blossomed into romance . |
| 16 | He set up shop as a publisher and on 26 August 1594 married Jayne Vrique ; a son , Isaac , was baptized on 19 April 1595 ; three other children , Thomas , Joan , and Alice , figure in his will . |
| 17 | It was during this period that a young buyer for Adidas based in Liverpool ( but originally from Yorkshire ) set up shop in a small back-street in Liverpool City Centre . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Hickman set up practice as a surgeon in Ludlow . |