Example sentences of "to set [pron] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He wanted to set me up in a flat he said he owned . |
| 2 | Where several holes were to be tired it was possible to set them off in a desired order by lighting in appropriate sequence . |
| 3 | It 's not that he wishes to set himself up as a leader . |
| 4 | A self-confessed con-artist and charlatan , he used his ‘ nimbleness of wit ’ to set himself up as a quack doctor and an exorcist . |
| 5 | Where did he get the money to set himself up with a yacht in Burnham-on-bloody-Crouch if it was n't a pay-off from Maurice Abberley for services rendered ? ’ |
| 6 | There was little enthusiasm , then , as the paper moved towards the alien financial world of the City to set itself up as a public limited company . |
| 7 | ‘ What about asking Albert 's to set you up with a really quiet-looking business outfit for New York ? |
| 8 | ‘ He 's more likely to set you up as a courier on an over-sixties package holiday to Majorca . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ If only I had the means to set you up in a house where I could visit you . ’ |
| 10 | When an attempt is made to set him up as a Saint , it is scarcely possible for any man of good sense who knows the history of his times to preserve his gravity . |
| 11 | Patrick was studying medicine , and it was her wish to set him up in a practice of his own one day . |
| 12 | It sets out , by example as well as by direct command , the differences between right and wrong , so that the man who measures his conduct by Bible standards gains from it both " reproof " when he is in the wrong and " correction " to set him back on a right course . |
| 13 | I have a 30 gallon corner tank , and would like to set it up for a Black Peacock , Pterois volitans . |
| 14 | It is easier to bring off if you have an assistant to hold the camcorder , otherwise , you have to set it up on a tripod or some other suitable support and switch it on with a remote control or time-delay . |
| 15 | Anna Wolska , heiress to the palace of Wilanow outside Warsaw , and the Potocki and Branicki collections in it , has offered to set it up as a public institution . |
| 16 | And accordingly they treat it , as if , in the present age , this were an agreed point , among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained , but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule , as it were by way of reprisals , for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world . |
| 17 | The aim was to separate the individual membership section of the Party from the unions and to set it up in a relationship reminiscent of that with the ILP before 1932 . |
| 18 | It was heavy for him , he was glad to set it down for a while . |