set up house
set up home BrE
set up housekeeping AmE

They had bought a house together and set up home.

He set up home in the village with his family.

Eventually he learned that she had set up home with another man.

Many set up home across the south, beginning lives again from scratch.

After several months touring Europe, they return and set up home in the country.

They set up home and lived there in exile, for many years.

Overall, only three had managed to set up homes of their own.

A. I'd been searching in various countries how to set up homes for those children.

These have set up home on top of a suspended ceiling.

So how do you go about persuading the birds to set up home?

All the costs of getting a mortgage, moving and setting up home can run into thousands.

Things go so well between them that they agree to set up home together and prepare plans to marry.

Seriously though, why not include all the useful things you need to set up home in your wedding budget?

This is the last place on earth I'd expect you to set up home.'

They had no children and initially set up home in Solihull.

Having fallen in love with each other, the couple are now setting up home together at lightning speed.

At 16 he set up home on his own, against the wishes of Social Services.

In 1237 a group of these monks came to Lichfield to set up home.

The Chinese came to do business or to open vegetable farms and have since stayed to set up home here.

Why not just leave - set up home in a more tolerant spiritual pew?

They were married in six weeks and set up home on Park Avenue.

He hit the roof when the pair left to set up home in a bedsit.

"He was happy doing work for the Department until you and I set up home together.

Shortly after setting up home he ran into a series of mishaps.

Time was, when two people would be setting up home together for the first time outside the family nest.

They soon set up house and have been together ever since.

They set up house in No. 93, which was now to let.

Another pair set up house in a different tree, about 50 feet away.

And I could see no reason in the world why we shouldn't set up house together.

Also - how many people really do "set up house" these days as opposed to living together prior to marriage?

The fundamental thought behind both attempts at marriage was quite sound: to set up house, to become independent.

She sets up house in Pierre's apartment and begins to take care of him.

The campaigns have even set up house party help lines and e-mail addresses where people can get information.

"But the little picture, the setting up house process, is hideous."

A whole family of symbionts could've set up house in there with room for guests.

He would take it to research colonies to set up house before bringing the family along."

I set up house right here and found the room you stayed in last night, and started learning about what had happened to my people.

Fear like a viral infection sets up house in us.

This had helped Lara over the difficulties of setting up house in a new place.

"We plan to be together," she said, suggesting that down the line the group might even set up house together.

"Can you see setting up house with an alpha werewolf?"

By the time they get the urge again or run out of money, we'll be setting up house in Paris."

By the time she is provided for, it will be a long while before I can afford to set up house, as he very well knows.

He had even established a system for sending money home to their families once they had set up house in this country.

Val left him for the first time since they had set up house, and went briefly 'home'.

Commenced on the day of our setting up house.

They set up house together but are continually troubled by their inability to have physical intimacy.

Initially, Con felt almost like a newlywed setting up house.

Many restaurants will also set up house accounts for regular customers who can then simply sign their checks.

The government has just begun an advertising campaign to persuade more foreign businesses to set up house on French soil.

The only question left was where we were going to set up housekeeping.

Then he let us set up housekeeping and start a fire.

Later in the novel she and Tom set up housekeeping together.

"There are some areas in the system where homeless people set up housekeeping."

The two orphans set up housekeeping as father and son.

"I think he wants to set up housekeeping with her.

"I'm not asking you to move in and set up housekeeping."

The two set up housekeeping together - living in sin, it used to be called.

This was "new work" for him, he added, having never set up housekeeping before.

"It's hard work setting up housekeeping in a foreign language."

It's not like he could have set up housekeeping with Tom, even if he'd been so inclined.

I've never set up housekeeping with anyone before, is all."

"Suppose whatever's set up housekeeping down here is between us and the workshop?"

We set up housekeeping in this house and I have never regretted it.

We went on up and set up housekeeping for a month or so.

"I said I was not about to let the front door set up housekeeping on its own."

On the Rim you can't just go off and set up housekeeping.

What does she think we're doing here, setting up housekeeping?"

And on the other hand, how would you like someone setting up housekeeping inside your mouth?"

In many cases, the older generation wants to retire and move, while the younger one is ready to set up housekeeping.

That also describes the apartment in Cairo where she has set up housekeeping.

And so we went back to the tower and set up housekeeping.

There, they become lovers, set up housekeeping, have a baby, and play at being responsible adults.

On several of my expeditions I had set up housekeeping in an empty tomb.

My landlord was a butler, who had married a cook, and set up housekeeping.