The phrase "set up guards" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the action of establishing security measures or personnel to protect a location or event.
Example: "Before the event starts, we need to set up guards at all entrances to ensure safety."
Alternatives: "establish security personnel" or "deploy security guards."
If a team has shot rock — the one closest to the button, or center of the house — it may try to set up guards to prevent the other team from knocking it out.
When Milashina broke the story on how the married, middle-aged Chechen police chief was able to marry the 17 year old girl, and how he had allegedly set up guards around the Chechen village of Baytarki to prevent her from escaping, an upswell of outrage swept throughout Russia.
To protect the settlement -- illegal in the eyes of many -- Israel has set up guard posts, checkpoints and road closures.
There he set up guard against another of Muḥammad of Ghūr's slaves, Tāj al-Dīn Yildiz of Ghazna, who also claimed his former master's Indian possessions.
Finding places to train was difficult: many a platoon was forced into a humiliating argument with the park keeper over their right to march on the grass, or hounded by an over-zealous caretaker from a school classroom or church hall where they had set up guard posts.
Near the small, white house in the town where Lubitz lived and where police quickly set up guard, neighbor Hans-Juergen Krause said he was "really shocked" by the news.
In attacking the Byzantine Empire, the Cumans were also assisted by the Vlachs living in the Balkan Mountains (now in Bulgaria) who showed them the mountain paths where no imperial guard was set up.
During the three-week trial, Robert F. Gold, the lawyer for the acknowledged jailhouse killer, Ambrose Harris, persuaded the 12 members of the jury that Mr. Harris, 49, had reason to believe he was being set up by guards to be attacked by Robert Simon, a three-time murderer.
Make sure you set up perimeter guards so they cannot attempt to escape.
Since the melting away of the Soviet threat it was set up to guard against, NATO has been striving to find a new reason to stay together.
