Example sentences of "to set [pers pn] [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's more likely to set you up as a courier on an over-sixties package holiday to Majorca . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | His family could n't afford to set him up as an independent farmer . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |