Example sentences of "setting [pron] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edberg stamped his world class authority on the match , dominating the 90 minute final and setting himself up for the defence of his Wimbledon title . |
| 2 | It sounded as if Irina was setting herself up for the planned return to Moscow , ahead of the Brückner lawyers . |
| 3 | they probably enjoyed it , cos they probably setting it up on the market stalls up there and there afford it . |
| 4 | From McIntosh 's point of view it was not an easy decision to pull out of institutional sector research as he was involved in setting it up in the mid '70s . |
| 5 | It was difficult to abandon the RPF precisely because de Gaulle had so compromised himself and his unique prestige by setting it up in the first place , by fighting elections , and by being a politician " like the others " . |
| 6 | People setting themselves up as the philosophers and artists and intelligentsia and other people setting themselves up as their assessors ? |