Example sentences of "set he up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When an attempt is made to set him up as a Saint , it is scarcely possible for any man of good sense who knows the history of his times to preserve his gravity . |
| 2 | His family could n't afford to set him up as an independent farmer . |
| 3 | The worrying thing for other World Cup teams next summer is that , if and when Maradona recovers his best form — and he will most likely do so in June — then the rest of the Argentina side looks ready to set him up for another stupendous tournament . |
| 4 | To avoid giving the impression that he had been suckered into coming by US military intelligence , and any reluctance he might feel in consequence to talk freely , Coleman was told to take George home to the family lake house near Auburn , Alabama , and to set him up for questioning by saying that the FBI routinely interviewed all students from the Middle East . |
| 5 | Patrick was studying medicine , and it was her wish to set him up in a practice of his own one day . |
| 6 | An attempt in 1775 to set him up in Jamaica was no more enduring . |
| 7 | And , apparently , they 're going to set him up in some kind of arranged marriage . ’ |
| 8 | Set him up to be a laughing-stock . |
| 9 | Early last week the Sun apologised for saying he had never had a real job , but in truth a four-year stint as a tutor organiser in industrial and trade unions at the Workers ' Educational Association 25 years ago does not exactly set him up for a glittering new career . |
| 10 | That would set him up for a world title shot at the end of this year in Belfast . |
| 11 | That would set him up for a world title shot at the end of this year in Belfast . |
| 12 | We shall set him up in advertising , |
| 13 | If his opponent is not standing correctly , an attacker can set him up by feinting a blow to an area of the body and following up with a sweep . |
| 14 | The old fear lurked at the back of his mind : suppose Lorton had set him up for Newley 's murder ? |
| 15 | When Margie had mentioned his association with Greg Martin , the financier who had made him the loan which had set him up in a small showroom and enabled him to move the sewing machines out of the living room and into a work room , Hugo became not so much evasive as totally silent . |
| 16 | Lately he had been troubled by rheumatism brought on by the damp in the house , and his doctor had set him up in sleeping quarters on the ground floor with independent heating arrangements . |
| 17 | He has to compose around something , so his isolating ( once strident ) individualism sets him up for a Bowiesque plummet into British nationalism and a flirtation with racism with overtures to the Nazis . |
| 18 | Charlie was sensitive about having false teeth at thirty — why had n't all that wartime milk and orange juice set him up for life as it had his contemporaries ? — but he did n't mind Jack knowing . |
| 19 | It set him up for next year , I 'm sure . |
| 20 | But Tony 's sparkling form at England B level is sure to give him the left wing spot and set him up for the Test against Canada on October 17 . |
| 21 | The client set him up in his own office , with a Stock Exchange Automated Quotations ( SEAQ ) screen and access to all the financial press . |
| 22 | When it became obvious that he would not be successful he decided to train as a pharmacist and father set him up in business . ’ |
| 23 | Mr Anderson therefore gave him the Hailing Ferry in perpetuity and set him up in a shed selling chandlery to the barge owners . |