Example sentences of "set up shop " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent study by the University of Michigan suggests that 90% of the parts in Japanese cars built in America come either direct from Japan or from Japanese manufacturers which have set up shop in the United States . |
| 2 | Some claim that Disney should have set up shop in sunny Spain rather than chilly Paris . |
| 3 | The hypocrites could continue their spiel for ever , but are destroyed by forces from outside , notably the unexpected return of the master of the house in which they have set up shop . |
| 4 | The SIR in question is Systems Integrated Research which has recently set up shop in the UK . |
| 5 | Antoinette was the best of the Leicester modistes , run by a little French émigrée who had set up shop and named it in memory of her martyred Queen . |
| 6 | His Celtic tones were complemented by those of Jim Naughtie himself , who had set up shop in an attic room of the Grand , but who had been spending much of the ‘ happy hour ’ between six and seven trawling for ‘ vox pop ’ . |