Example sentences of "set up [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last spring , a whitethroat set up its territory in a field of rape near my home . |
| 2 | At Thame itself where Leyland Daf set up their base in 1987 , there 's relief the company is staying : |
| 3 | John Warnock and Chuck Geschke of Adobe both worked for Xerox at the Palo Alto Research Centre where PDLs were invented and set up their company to commercially exploit the concepts they had helped develop . |
| 4 | John had the name first , this being about the only tangible asset retrieved from the Wavesports collapse , but when Pete set up his firm at a later date there was no indication that John would be producing clothing . |
| 5 | A world was coming in which it would almost certainly never again be possible to walk quietly , as Frederica and Alexander walked , through the village where Van Gogh tramped and set up his easel in the clean dust . |
| 6 | In the last five years since he set up his consultancy from his Bayswater home with a £20,000 overdraft and a stack of letterhead stationery , he has insisted that he will only work for causes in which he believes , and these causes are , by and large , left-wing . |
| 7 | Mr Miegel set up his think-tank in 1977 . |
| 8 | In this spirit , and doubtless moved by these very arguments , early in 1987 Kenneth Baker set up his committee under the chairmanship of G. R. Higginson , the Vice-Chancellor of Southampton University , to recommend principles that should govern A level syllabuses and their assessment ‘ in the light of the Government 's commitment to retain GCE Advanced level examinations as an essential means for setting standards of excellence , and with the aim of maintaining or improving the present character and rigorous standards of these examinations ’ . |
| 9 | He set up his school in Edinburgh and in 1838 graduates of that school were made eligible to serve as army veterinary surgeons . |
| 10 | Nowicki , son of John the professional at Wilmslow , set up his triumph with a brilliant course record 67 in third round over the testing Hoylake links . |
| 11 | When the King left London in 1642 to travel north and set up his standard for the Civil War , he visited Little Gidding , together with Prince Rupert and Prince Charles . |
| 12 | Caxton had learned the art of printing from movable types in Cologne , and set up his press in the abbey precincts , close to the chapter house , where he printed books under the patronage of the English kings Edward IV , Richard III and Henry VII . |
| 13 | It was nearly dark when he arrived at Stobs and set up his equipment in a previously selected position above a deep cutting on the Whitrope side of the station . |
| 14 | Stephens set up his victory with a second round 64 , a course record , and a final round which included only 19 putts . |
| 15 | On the near corner is the shop where Simpson set up his business in the 1840s — which later became the firm of Simpson , Maule & Nicholson . |
| 16 | Then , five or six years ago , Brand came into money and set up his place on the moor . ’ |
| 17 | The latter set up his artillery in the Broyle and bombarded the defendants for eight days before resistance collapsed . |
| 18 | Tony set up his tripod in a snow drift and started to contemplate a shot , so we left him to it and visited the town 's Polar Museum . |
| 19 | probation officer with the state in Texas and they decide they want a trial at monitoring and they ask if I would be interested and so we begin the programme , the first in-house operative programme in Texas , and we set up our programme from scratch and started just kind of working on trial and error trying to make the thing worked . |