Example sentences of "he [verb] to take up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One night , in the privacy of their own bedroom , he decided to take up the matter again with Elizabeth . |
| 2 | When I was about eleven , he must have been about fourteen or fifteen , and he decided to take up the concert flute — so he suggested that instead of us staying on tin whistles , we should all take up different instruments . |
| 3 | He chose to take up the issue precisely because he thought it could not possibly lead to war , in that neither the Tsar , nor the Sultan in whose Empire Jerusalem was , would see the issue as of such importance . |
| 4 | In his ten years with Intelligence he rose to the rank of colonel , but his superiors ' prejudice against his British ancestry and education became unbearable and he resigned to take up the post offered to him with UNACO . |
| 5 | A quarter of an hour later , he begins to take up the strings of eggs , twining them around his hind legs . |