Example sentences of "to take up a [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rice , a controversial omission from South Africa 's World Cup team , has stepped down after 10 years as Transvaal 's captain to take up a position as a TV commentator during the competition . |
| 2 | David came back to Scotland in 1968 to take up a post as an assistant to the director of education with the City of Edinburgh Corporation . |
| 3 | for example , an older sister found a sponsor for Gerta Jassem just two months after arriving in London to take up a job as a chambermaid . |
| 4 | In the summer of 1925 he took part in his last athletics meeting in Scotland , winning the Scottish Amateur Athletics Association titles in the 100 , 220 , and 440 yards , before leaving to take up an appointment as a missionary teacher at the Anglo-Chinese College in Tientsin . |
| 5 | I think I must have realized that Jean-Claude had neither the nerve nor the genuine confidence to take up an appointment in a language he did not speak . |
| 6 | He was educated at Wix 's Lane School , Battersea , leaving at the age of fourteen to take up an apprenticeship to a firm of fur dealers for three years . |