Example sentences of "he set [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is obviously related to Foucault 's analysis of the genealogy of the disciplinary society , a society of surveillance and control , which he sets out in his book Discipline and Punish , and to his argument that power proceeds not in the traditional model of sovereignty ( that is negatively , ‘ thou shalt not ’ ) but through administering and fostering life ( that is positively , ‘ you must ’ ) . |
| 2 | Welsh- Pearson , the company he set up in 1915 , remained small , making only three or four films a year , thus resisting the pressures for mass production that prevailed at the larger studios . |
| 3 | ‘ As a matter of fact , he set up in business for himself — not far away , in Mile End . ’ |
| 4 | He set up in business as an antique dealer but , according to Herbert Cranko , ‘ seems to have loved his stock more than his customers , often refusing to sell a cherished piece to a disliked buyer ’ . |
| 5 | He set up in practice in the copper-mining town of Hettstedt but soon discovered that he was out of sympathy with the barbaric medical practices of his time which often showed little compassion for , or understanding of , the patient . |
| 6 | When he left the Kunstgewerbeschule in 1936 he set up in Zurich as a freelance photograph , a job he fitted in between the traditional periods of military service compulsory in Switzerland , then worked for a year in the famous magazine Graphics . |
| 7 | After short periods as general manager and chief engineer of the Mutual and the New Telephone Companies he set up in practice in 1893 as a consulting telephone and telegraph engineer , in which capacity he acted as consulting engineer to the telephone departments of Guernsey ( 1896–1921 ) and Glasgow ( 1900–4 ) , as well as Portsmouth , Hull , Brighton , and Swansea ( 1900–11 ) . |
| 8 | He set up in the West End of London in 1912 , following the death of his first wife and only daughter , having realized that property deals yielded far better returns in the metropolis than in the provinces . |
| 9 | In 1868 he moved back to London , where he set up in practice at 46 Queen Anne 's Gate as a consulting civil engineer , in association with his son Sydney William Yockney . |
| 10 | At the same time he set up in practice as a consulting engineer and naval architect in London , where he remained until his death . |
| 11 | All obstacles in the way of his return to England were now removed , and he set out in May . |
| 12 | I think he set out in plain language the priorities which Britain needs to address and which the present government is failing us on . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't know what 's got into you , May , ’ he shouted , shaking his fist in the air as he set off in pursuit . |
| 14 | Rushing off across the moors he set off in pursuit of Tamara . |
| 15 | They immediately phoned Allen , who has a car business at Lower Wield , and he set off in pursuit of the gang . |
| 16 | He set off in pursuit of the fatally wounded officer shouting : ‘ He is still alive , I am going to get him . ’ |
| 17 | BREATHLESS PC Les Pounder was always going to come off second best when he set off in pursuit of a pub fight suspect . |
| 18 | He left by the gatehouse , openly , and took the road along the Foregate , in case anyone happened to notice and check that he set off in the appropriate direction . |