Example sentences of "set up [noun sg] as [art] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | And , like Sir Geoffrey and Mr Heseltine , he routinely sets up federalism as a straw man to knock down . |
3 | And , like Sir Geoffrey and Mr Heseltine , he routinely sets up federalism as a straw man to knock down . |
4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
5 | 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 . |
6 | When Ernest set up shop as a photographer , she had gone to work as his assistant and their friendship blossomed into romance . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Hickman set up practice as a surgeon in Ludlow . |