Example sentences of "he set up [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He set up a beehive barricade as bulldozers moved in to dig a pipeline near his land .
2 On returning to Vietnam , he wasted no time in spreading his knowledge , and when the Japanese invaded , he set up a guerrilla resistance force , the Viet Cong , to fight the invaders .
3 In the 1860s Spence became interested in copper smelting , and in 1866 he set up a company in Gode to develop his ideas .
4 Do you know , at Fontainebleau he set up a system of mirrors so he could watch his young ladies pose and inspect them from every angle , whilst his palaces were full of secret passageways with peep-holes in every bedroom for Francis was deeply interested in the sexual exploits of others .
5 He set up a pile of cushions on the sofa and propped two telephone directories against them .
6 In fact it was at this time just as the United States was beginning to take up his Girls that he set up a school there .
7 He set up a settlement there and named it Isabella .
8 In about 1784 he set up a press there , and founded an ambitious system of circulating libraries ; to anyone wishing to set one up he offered a stock of books , a catalogue , and instructions .
9 He set up a Press release and organised a Press Announcement to be made in London at The Natural History Museum .
10 He set up a couple himself but also put some big money into a facilities house that hired out videotape machines , camera crews , and picture editing .
11 He set up a test area in the Hawthorne Plant of the General Electric Company , where telephone relays were made .
12 Ginger 's greatest single claim to fame is that he set up a record for an inside-forward that has never been beaten at our club , when he scored five goals in the game against Southend at The Palace on 25 September 1909 .
13 On the contrary , at government expense , he set up a Kyoto institute of nationalist historical anthropology to demonstrate the spiritual civilization that supposedly provides the source of the modern Japanese .
14 The court heard he set up a bank account with the Royal Bank of Scotland in Darlington in the name of Momen Garawand and then used cheque books to spend almost £6,500 .
15 Fothergill was a doctor and in 1740 he set up a practice in White Hart Street very near the Collinson establishment and flowers from Peckham might well have adorned yet another house in the City .
16 The same day he set up a Cabinet committee to investigate such a union and Helmut Haussmann , the West German Economics Minister , presented a three-stage plan to introduce economic and monetary union by the end of 1992 .
17 Co-operative or not , Cotterell was obviously in charge and not to be messed about with while he set up a commission .
18 He set up a Christmas Carnival , taking over the entire St James 's hall and theatre complex , putting on side shows and trade exhibits .
19 He set up a hat-trick of tries for Spiller , one a beauty which originated with his devastating break from deep within his own half .
20 He set up a list of twelve components of skill , including such items as ‘ mental effort ’ , ‘ dexterity ’ , ‘ responsibility ’ , and ‘ decision making ’ , and a set of four broad levels of mechanisation .
21 She said Mr Venables had turned Tottenham into a family club , adding : ‘ He always talks to us and he set up a creche at the club . ’
22 Johnnie Armstrong of Gilnockie had defied an agreement between the Wardens of the Marches that no building should be erected by either side within the confines of the Debatable Land when he set up a tower above the Esk .
23 After finishing his apprenticeship he set up a business with this uncle , but it failed .
24 ‘ My father was n't exactly short of money when he set up the trust . ’
25 By getting out of the bargain books field now , he believed he might well be ‘ ahead of the game ’ , just as he had been when he set up the company .
26 He set up the TV Times coverage , and we all pretended to be having a wonderful time for the benefit of the camera .
27 In 1880 he set up the Art Furnishers ' Alliance at Bond Street to sell ‘ artistic house furnishing material ’ .
28 He set up the Koetser Foundation in Zurich in order to acquire Old Masters and donated seventy works to it .
29 The process of information-gathering which ensued was certainly no more radical than that sanctioned by Nicholas I when he set up the Committee of 6 December 1826 .
30 He set up the prize to give aspiring writers a chance to step on the first rung of the literary ladder .
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