Example sentences of "[noun] to take [adv prt] the post " in BNC.

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1 In 1873 he returned to England to take up the post of electrician to the Highton Battery Company , and in 1877 set up the first experimental overhead telephone line in England , only two years after the invention of the telephone in the United States by Alexander Graham Bell [ q.v . ] .
2 In 1850 he resigned his curatorship to take up the post of mineral surveyor for New South Wales , an appointment that provoked the hostility of W. B. Clarke [ q.v . ] .
3 Peter Zwack , a Hungarian-born millionaire liqueur manufacturer who had renounced United States citizenship to take up the post of Hungary 's ambassador to the USA in September 1990 , was dismissed from the post on April 10 amidst public recriminations with the Hungarian government .
4 Moreover , within just eleven years he had been elevated to the honorific status of ‘ Dom ’ and sent to the abbey of Hautvillers to take up the post of cellarmaster , a position second only to that of abbot .
5 Sturt was just off to Adelaide with his family to take up the post of Surveyor-General of South Australia , and it was a matter of great good fortune that the two met at all .
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