Example sentences of "have set himself [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He has set himself up as a left-wing leader taking on the Government , ’ Mr Clarke said .
2 In recent years he has set himself up as a crusader for higher press and broadcasting standards , regularly harking back to the golden days of his journalistic apprenticeship in Yorkshire , where every fact was triple-checked and every speculation ruthlessly suppressed in the Hebden Bridge Times .
3 Engineer and motorbike enthusiast Terence Bird has set himself up as the sole European importer of Nanchang bikes .
4 Courtney had set himself up as a pioneer working with women victims of sex abuse , drug addiction and Aids problems .
5 The dapper , 52-year-old economist with his trademark owlish glasses had set himself up as a beacon of the reform movement as long ago as April 1991 when he led his party out of government .
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