Example sentences of "set up house [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This talk , too , was very much influenced by French fashions and preoccupations ; and from it Zeinab acquired the notion that it was possible for a single woman to set up house on her own . |
| 2 | There were two daughters of the marriage , Sophie , born in 1830 , who became the wife of Sir George Bailey , of Seal Close , in the Lincolnshire Wolds , and Christabel , born in 1825 , who lived with her parents until in 1853 a small independence , left her by a maiden aunt , Antoinette de Kercoz , enabled her to set up house in Richmond in Surrey , with a young woman friend whom she had met at a lecture of Ruskin 's . |
| 3 | He then set up house with not only Mary but also Claire ( as she now styled herself ) . |
| 4 | Surveying reports on the relevant customary behaviour in 350 separate ‘ societies ’ , Tylor was able to demonstrate that , when the newlyweds set up house with the wife 's kin , avoidance behaviour between the latter and the husband occurred more frequently than could be expected on the basis of mere chance . |
| 5 | The pair set up house at Tidmarsh Mill , Pangbourne , and their relationship developed regardless of love affairs on both sides and Carrington 's marriage in 1921 to Reginald Sherring Partridge ( always called Ralph from 1919 onwards ) , who joined the ménage . |
| 6 | They set up house in No. 93 , which was now to let . |
| 7 | It does seem unfair that a wheatear or pipit , having survived all the dangers of migration , should arrive home to find a merlin has set up house in its territory ! |
| 8 | He had even established a system for sending money home to their families once they had set up house in this country . |
| 9 | It singles out one form of non-marital living arrangement and penalises it ( if the woman sets up house with her sister , her father , her adult children or her lesbian lover she would still have some entitlement to SB ) . |
| 10 | Would it , he was thinking , be like the ending of Forster 's as yet unpublished Maurice , a somewhat tame homo novel of which he was to say , commenting on the male lovers setting up house at the end , ‘ I give it three weeks ? ’ |
| 11 | On the positive side , his inheritance freed him from financial constraints and so he decided to settle in England , setting up house in London at Carlton Terrace , an event which led Disraeli to write somewhat mockingly : ‘ … |
| 12 | You did not go off and set up house with the man in your life and perhaps think about marriage if it seemed like a good idea , after a year or two . |
| 13 | Though she set up house with him , she still went home to Eccles every Sunday for a traditional roast lunch with the family . |
| 14 | Benjamin James was away in Somerset , and William had a family to accommodate , so the two unmarried children , Charles Frederick and Emily , set up house with their mother at 50 Cumberland Street , Barnsbury . |
| 15 | And he set up house for her in a bungalow further along the river , in a nice secluded part . |
| 16 | In their second year , Robyn and Charles moved off campus and set up house in a small flat in Brighton , commuting to the University by local train . |
| 17 | Anyway , the Tallentires never gave up their music because when Grandfather Tallentire set up house in a little farm called Northside he went to buy an organ but took a fancy to a piano and came back with that instead . |