Example sentences of "setting up [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the nineteenth century , as more people survived their last child leaving home , it became a particularly important form of support , with perhaps a quarter of working-class older people in some towns taking in boarders : a pattern which persisted until young people began to marry much earlier in the 1950s , setting up on their own instead — and leaving more of the old on their own . |
| 2 | ‘ The costs are the biggest bar to people setting up on their own but I could use his phones , his photocopier , computer , telex , even his secretary to begin with . ’ |
| 3 | Many headhunters see setting up on their own as an ultimate ambition , despite the risks of flying from the safe nest of a large firm with many clients and a high level of repeat business . |
| 4 | This is currently one of the most popular — and safest — ways of setting up on your own . |
| 5 | Alternatively , as many people do , you may look on retirement as the opportunity for a job switch ( with perhaps a reduction in hours ) or the chance you have always wanted of setting up on your own . |
| 6 | Setting up on his own six years later to provide a service for companies recruiting people in this field , he charged a $200 non-returnable retainer , which was subsequently deducted from his commission : 5% of the successful candidate 's first year 's salary . |
| 7 | Stuart stayed only ten months before setting up on his own in 1956 . |
| 8 | also worked in the Sisson workshop before setting up on his own almost next door in 1745 . |
| 9 | He had also , ten years ago or more , worked for Grunt 's Garages before setting up on his own as a builder/developer . |
| 10 | A young Cornish shoemaker married at the time he was setting up on his own : " his wife 's immediate fortune was ten pounds — a sum to him at that time , of great importance " . |
| 11 | I only wish that my father could know that I 'm at last setting up on my own … |