Example sentences of "took up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The male then took up guard , fanning the eggs constantly with his large pectorals and turning upside down to fan them as well . |
| 2 | Fluid took up air space … you never saw anyone with emphysema run upstairs . |
| 3 | ‘ We read ’ , he read , ‘ in Richard Milward 's unreliable , tendentious and often plainly wrong book Early and Mediaeval Wimbledon that ‘ in 878 a Danish army took up winter quarters just across the river at Fulham . |
| 4 | An accident , in the sense that it could have been the ancestors of lions that took up grass-eating , and the ancestors of antelopes that took up meat-eating . |
| 5 | Geoff took up Vet running at a serious level two or three years ago and has forged through the ranks until arriving at the top of the O50s this season . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In 1986 , however , only 31% of all newly qualified Ph D graduates took up university employment ( Anderson 2 ) , and the boom period for academic jobs was around 1965 , when 53% of all such researchers found employment in universities , so that it may be that the majority of successful Ph D researchers over the period have not had access to those facilities which would have helped them to publish . |
| 9 | In 1986 , however , only 31% of all newly qualified Ph D graduates took up university employment ( Anderson ) , and the boom period for academic jobs was around 1965 , when 53% of all such researchers found employment in universities , so that it may be that the majority of successful Ph D researchers over the period have not had access to those facilities which would have helped them to publish . |
| 10 | But for hundreds of sightseers who took up vantage points in the nearby mountains and on the main deck of an Urnersee pleasure boat , it was the disappointment of the year . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Billy had come home a physical wreck and it was only when Danny himself took up boxing seriously that his friend regained some of his self-esteem by helping and instructing him . |
| 13 | She took up tennis after finding that she was simply in the way if she appeared on the film set . |
| 14 | With the sort of guitar riff we have n't heard much since George Harrison took up yoga , Weller proved the more banal Style Council meanderings are not to be his epitaph . |
| 15 | Instead they took up battle positions , said Colonel Marc Martens of US Central Command . |
| 16 | He trained as an engraver but took up work with deaf people and became their missioner in Paisley , Scotland . |
| 17 | In less than three months he , too , had moved — to a cottage just outside the village , where he took up gardening and fishing with great energy and enthusiasm . |
| 18 | A detachment of Cromwell 's troops guarding the bridge at nearby Bewdley came to Kidderminster to cut off their retreat and took up position in the square . |
| 19 | Then a short blast and six monitors took up position at the top of the lower playground . |
| 20 | In the summer , strawberry sellers usually took up position around the Crimean Cannon at the side of the Council House and they had to dispose of all their perishable wares before returning home . |
| 21 | At least 20 officers in personnel carriers and patrol cars took up position outside the old Billingsgate fish market , just yards from the Baltic Exchange , where three people died in the IRA bomb blast in April . |
| 22 | On his head was the horned-moon helm of Saphery and he swiftly took up position between the queen and the Keeper of Secrets . |
| 23 | " Keep an eye on our friends , " he muttered and while Brady took up position beside the door , Tom helped Patrick over to the bar . |
| 24 | The cutters then took up position in a square around Guiding Lights which was still moving at about ten knots . |
| 25 | A total of 250 troops from France 's 4,200-strong local garrison took up position around the town of Dikhil in the south-west of the country , the scene of recent fighting between the government and the FRUD rebels [ see p. 38711 , where Dikhil is wrongly given as Kikhil ] . |
| 26 | A posse of the Party 's agents took up position behind a group of Young Conservatives who were threatening to unfold a banner . |
| 27 | The dog curled a lip at me but made no sound , then took up position in the front room doorway . |
| 28 | Policemen , armed , filed out of the building and took up position . |
| 29 | They took up position between the harpoons and the fleeing whales . |
| 30 | The troops gathered the Croats in the Franciscan monastery on Tuesday after Muslims overran the area and took up position on all sides . |