Example sentences of "he set [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to wean the company away from a reliance on theatre plays , he set up a major script department which drew on the talents of writers like Frank Launder , Sidney Gilliatt , Val Guest and Michael Pertwee , as well as occasionally giving jobs to young writers like Christopher Isherwood . |
| 2 | He set up a hat-trick of tries for Spiller , one a beauty which originated with his devastating break from deep within his own half . |
| 3 | Fothergill was a doctor and in 1740 he set up a practice in White Hart Street very near the Collinson establishment and flowers from Peckham might well have adorned yet another house in the City . |
| 4 | The ability to read and write was confined to churchmen ( this was common throughout the whole of northern Europe ) , not even William or his Norman Barons were able to read , so William appointed Lanfranc as Archbishop of Canterbury and he set up a diocesan pattern which endured and encouraged the growth of ecclesiastical courts of law and a succession of ‘ clerks ’ who became the forerunners of the civil servants . |
| 5 | On the contrary , at government expense , he set up a Kyoto institute of nationalist historical anthropology to demonstrate the spiritual civilization that supposedly provides the source of the modern Japanese . |
| 6 | There he set up a small photographic portrait business , and made some early forays into recording ethnic ‘ types ’ and customs . |
| 7 | After leaving university he set up a roadying business on the government 's Enterprise Allowance Scheme . |
| 8 | Ginger 's greatest single claim to fame is that he set up a record for an inside-forward that has never been beaten at our club , when he scored five goals in the game against Southend at The Palace on 25 September 1909 . |
| 9 | He set up a Christmas Carnival , taking over the entire St James 's hall and theatre complex , putting on side shows and trade exhibits . |
| 10 | In fact it was at this time just as the United States was beginning to take up his Girls that he set up a school there . |
| 11 | Realizing the kicks that many men get out of listening to women mouthing obscenities , he set up a unique telephone service to cater for the need and gave it the name Just Filmz Inc . |
| 12 | He set up a list of twelve components of skill , including such items as ‘ mental effort ’ , ‘ dexterity ’ , ‘ responsibility ’ , and ‘ decision making ’ , and a set of four broad levels of mechanisation . |
| 13 | He set up a beehive barricade as bulldozers moved in to dig a pipeline near his land . |
| 14 | He set up a test area in the Hawthorne Plant of the General Electric Company , where telephone relays were made . |
| 15 | He set up a select committee with the job of trying to devise a political settlement to the problem of Tamil separatism ; but it got nowhere . |
| 16 | She said Mr Venables had turned Tottenham into a family club , adding : ‘ He always talks to us and he set up a creche at the club . ’ |
| 17 | Johnnie Armstrong of Gilnockie had defied an agreement between the Wardens of the Marches that no building should be erected by either side within the confines of the Debatable Land when he set up a tower above the Esk . |
| 18 | He set up a pile of cushions on the sofa and propped two telephone directories against them . |
| 19 | Co-operative or not , Cotterell was obviously in charge and not to be messed about with while he set up a commission . |
| 20 | In 1961 he set up a working group , in the Ministry , ‘ to study the long term development of roads and traffic in urban areas and their influence on the urban environment ’ ; the leader was Colin Buchanan . |
| 21 | He set up a couple himself but also put some big money into a facilities house that hired out videotape machines , camera crews , and picture editing . |
| 22 | He set up a settlement there and named it Isabella . |
| 23 | After finishing his apprenticeship he set up a business with this uncle , but it failed . |
| 24 | In the 1860s Spence became interested in copper smelting , and in 1866 he set up a company in Gode to develop his ideas . |
| 25 | In about 1784 he set up a press there , and founded an ambitious system of circulating libraries ; to anyone wishing to set one up he offered a stock of books , a catalogue , and instructions . |
| 26 | On returning to Vietnam , he wasted no time in spreading his knowledge , and when the Japanese invaded , he set up a guerrilla resistance force , the Viet Cong , to fight the invaders . |
| 27 | Do you know , at Fontainebleau he set up a system of mirrors so he could watch his young ladies pose and inspect them from every angle , whilst his palaces were full of secret passageways with peep-holes in every bedroom for Francis was deeply interested in the sexual exploits of others . |
| 28 | The same day he set up a Cabinet committee to investigate such a union and Helmut Haussmann , the West German Economics Minister , presented a three-stage plan to introduce economic and monetary union by the end of 1992 . |
| 29 | He set up a Press release and organised a Press Announcement to be made in London at The Natural History Museum . |
| 30 | In January 1857 he set up a " Secret Committee on the Peasant Question " to discuss ways in which the abolition of serfdom might be achieved . |