Example sentences of "[verb] take up the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	Simon Martin has taken up the new post of Membership Officer based at Malvern .
2	‘ He has taken up the priestly tasks of his father , ’ she says .
3	Continue until just after it starts to take up the steep fellside again , where a small path branches off left .
4	Invalided out of the army in 1915 , Colman began to take up the acting career which had fascinated him since amateur dramatics in childhood .
5	Had there been a verification that nuclear fusion did occur in solids at room temperature , here is one theorist , and I am sure I speak for many colleagues , who would have taken up the new field to see what fundamental implications it had .
6	I mean , I 'm n this is no criticism because you , you could n't er , you 'd have taken up the whole hour if you 'd included examples .
7	Either the compromises begin and records become more accessible , or the band leaves the label , usually by virtue of being dropped or , in contract parlance , the record company failing to take up the next year 's option .
8	Do n't forget to take up the READY position after signalling each word .
9	In his press release the Secretary of State says : ’ Many of the new measures are designed to protect children from being influenced to take up the deadly habit of smoking . ’
10	Hamish had taken up the managerial place at the factory that everyone had expected would be Kenneth 's , when Kenneth had decided to teach .
11	The little cavalryman , embodiment of all the ancient martial instincts and panache of the race , had taken up the German gauntlet .
12	And she said take up the that A B C one .
13	What plans does my hon. Friend have to take up the 20 ecu supplement to the suckler cow premium agreed by the Council of Ministers on 11 December ?
14	‘ Then if we actually go ahead and build the New Jerusalem , they have to take up the full rights , which would amount to … 2.000.000.000,00 . ’

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