Example sentences of "[coord] set [adv prt] as [art] " in BNC.
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1 | In 1799 , having decided that strict attention to work was undermining his health , Edwards turned his business over to R. H. Evans [ q.v. ] and set up as a gentleman collector . |
2 | At sixteen he ran away from Harrow , and set up as a film director , work which took him to central Europe and east Africa , but proved financially unrewarding . |
3 | In 1889 he left the lace business in search of larger fortunes and set up as a stockbroker in Nottingham . |
4 | He fled to Cyprus without his wife and set up as a storekeeper and contractor . |
5 | In the late Sixties , Kasmin swallowed his pride and set off as a travelling salesman on behalf of the gallery to America , travelling the States with a bagful of transparencies , finding out who was interested in art from the local museums , and visiting people who did n't get to New York . |