Example sentences of "[noun] take up the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only disturbance to its surface happened in the nineteenth century when the architect Gilbert Scott took up the edges in order to install a heating system . |
| 2 | It would require suicidal altruism to take up the cudgels for the Palestinians . |
| 3 | She was going home to England to take up the threads of her life and forget Alain and her time in France . |
| 4 | The " Hallelujah lasses " had been used to raising their own voices in protest and employing some fairly dramatic methods to attract attention from the time Catherine Booth took up the cudgels on behalf of women in the early days of the movement . |
| 5 | Herbert Read in his book Education through Art took up the categories of types put forward by Jung . |
| 6 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |