Example sentences of "set [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leftwich moved to London and set himself up as a wholesale confectioner , with outlets in Fleet Street and Kingston upon Thames . |
| 2 | He set himself up as a one-man cult . |
| 3 | So , with one LP , Morrissey set himself up as the new Tom Robinson ? |
| 4 | Australian Daryl Beattie , 23 , covering for Gardner , set himself up for a top-three finish at the first attempt as a factory-supported rider . |
| 5 | The bunkers ate into the fairway at around the 240-yard mark to cool the aggressive ardour of the professional golfer who might try to cut the slight dogleg and set himself up for an easier shot into the two-tier green . |
| 6 | He was born at Preston in 1732 and got little education ; he was apprenticed to a barber , and set himself up in the barbering trade at Bolton later . |
| 7 | He offered her the only chair then set himself down on the edge of the bed , facing her . |
| 8 | On July 12 , 1989 , the Grey Panthers , formerly a group of some 25,000 members within the Greens reflecting the interests of older citizens , split away and set itself up as a new political party called the Greys ( die Grauen ) . |
| 9 | In this case , as in others , television docudrama set itself up as the tidier and balancer of history . |
| 10 | Roads and Traffic in Urban Areas has , by its own proclamation , set itself up as the Bible for traffic planners . |
| 11 | Konitz acknowledges that there is some basis in his history for this view : he and his 1950s musical guru , the pianist Lennie Tristano , in a sense set themselves up as a ( white ) alternative school to bebop : ‘ Tristano was keen to prove that whites could play jazz , though Charlie Parker , Lester Young and Louis Armstrong were his heroes . |
| 12 | ‘ And then , after the war , the newly formed High Council set themselves up as the Time Lords . ’ |
| 13 | I perfected the technique of entering my bedsit without anyone hearing me or noticing me , but eventually it became impossible to stay there ad infinitum without paying my rent , so I took all my military kit and some clothes and set myself up in the changing room at the barracks . |