Example sentences of "[pron] took up " in BNC.

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1 Simply the sense of physical disgust which filled me whenever I took up a brush and dipped it in paint .
2 I took up my place a short distance in front of the Officer in Command of the parade .
3 Every room in the house contained some form of Bible and I took up a large ancient looking one and opened it as if it had been a door into a cave .
4 I took up dancing again with a vengeance ; grinding through as many as six lessons a week .
5 At first I played the bodhran drum [ he pronounced it ‘ bowran ’ ] and then I took up the guitar .
6 I often used to read it when we were in action and , believe it or not , every time I took up the book it opened at page 92 , although I have never deliberately read that page , as far as I can remember — so I took the hint and wrote … ’
7 Instead , I took up running in order to take more exercise in a shorter time .
8 It happened with me , when at the age of 18 , I took up pen and paper to make a reply to the readers ' letters column of the Glasgow Evening Times , in answer to a man who supported the rise of Nazism in Germany .
9 In the first I shall review activity within the Engineering Branch before I took up my post within the MOD .
10 I took up golf four years ago , while living in Northern Ireland , where club membership was not a problem .
11 ‘ So I took up a hold on 210 overhead the ditched pilot using Rate 1s as crosswind and base legs .
12 I took up a new hold at 500 feet over the pilot and was pleased to see the dinghy on the water , fully inflated , between the helicopter and the pilot — and upwind of him !
13 I like boxing and when I was suspended in the summer of 1990 I took up boxing and accepted , perhaps too quickly , a fight against the then French light-heavyweight champion .
14 By the time 1972 was out I had found a Vets club in join , the VAC as it was called , and I began to pick up something about the scene — where to find the minor races , who to go to for training advice , the way to use blocks and how to seek out physios for repair purposes — and I took up steady training .
15 I was no good at rugby so I took up rowing .
16 Meehan , at the time I took up his case , had had three solicitors , all from Glasgow : Joseph Beltrami for his trial , then Ross Harper and later Leonard Murray .
17 Long before I took up climbing on any regular basis I accompanied a friend for a summer evening 's sport at Lawrencefield in Derbyshire .
18 I was carried ignominiously between two colleagues back to the car and greeted my wife with the sheepish grin she had been dreading ever since I took up the sport .
19 Some years ago , shortly after I took up climbing , a more experienced Geordie acquaintance was taking me up the Barbican on Castle Rock , Thirlmere .
20 I arrived at the shooting school well before the start , wearing a mackintosh , and with my umbrella up , I took up a position to watch .
21 I did n't offer an opinion on that since I did n't have any , so I took up the time admiring the surroundings .
22 Here I took up a position with the grand title of ‘ Consultant ’ .
23 I took up the cups of coffee , five cups , and they give me only four straws , not five , ’ he explained carefully .
24 The act of love did happen — and only once , and only just — immediately before I took up my new post at Schloss Hartheim , near Linz , in the province of Austria .
25 I took up coxing and rowing .
26 Then I took up the painting and carried it back here and I signed it . ’
27 Then I took up the double bass and organ for good measure .
28 Quirinus is lord there and he knows me , for it is with he and his Myrcans that I took up service over a year ago .
29 That 's why I took up PE , training .
30 Or perhaps I took up my Arabic textbook .
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