Example sentences of "set up [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hit the roof when the pair left to set up home in a bedsit . |
| 2 | A bird which was once a common sight along Britains riverbanks has been tempted to set up home in a sanctuary . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm surprised you did n't set up somewhere in a city , ’ she went on , tearing her glance from his face . |
| 4 | Did they set up again under a different name ? |
| 5 | Why not just leave — set up home in a more tolerant spiritual pew ? |
| 6 | A semantic relation may be set up either within a sentence or between sentences with the consequence that , when it crosses a sentence boundary , it has the effect of making the two sentences cohere with one another ( Halliday and Hasan 1976 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ She 's set up there like a part of the Rameses II exhibition , ’ came the answer . |
| 8 | Mr Matthew Kelly , Mr Jeremy Beadle 's erstwhile co-presenter on the televisual feast Game For A Laugh , has apparently ‘ set up home with a drag queen ’ named ‘ Dave ’ . |
| 9 | One such group is the Haitian Information Bureau , which was set up recently as a news and information service designed to provide an accurate picture of the current situation in Haiti . |
| 10 | But was n't it a risk setting up alone at a time when you would n't be able to work continuously ? |
| 11 | He could easily be presented as a modest example of Samuel Smiles 's self-help — the illegitimate son of a farm-servant and a weaver , totally lacking in formal education , who advanced from Oldham textile-worker to foreman in an engineering works , until in 1861 he set up independently as a dentist , dying worth almost £15,000 , which was by no means negligible : a lifelong radical Liberal and temperance advocate . |
| 12 | A song thrush opted for a life on the road when it set up home on a pick-up truck at Harwell , see below . |