Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] take up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's been monitoring my progress , since I 've taken up the job again , and she is far from pleased . |
| 2 | So far nobody has taken up the suggestion that since goalkeepers have become bigger , scoring would be made easier if the goals themselves were enlarged . |
| 3 | Localisation of protein alone may identify not only producing cells , but also target cells and cells which have taken up the protein by endocytosis . |
| 4 | Ironically , the only Hibs player who appeared to have any kind of conviction going forward was Pat McGinlay , who has taken up the attention of Celtic 's manager , Liam Brady , and will be the object of a move from that quarter when his contract expires in the summer . |
| 5 | Sixty-two years later Charles Black , Adam 's grandson and current chairman , has been sent the same manuscript ( which incidentally has survived a direct hit by a flying bomb in the Second World War ) by a descendant of the colonel who has taken up the search for a publisher . |
| 6 | Anyone who fancies taking up the challenge should contact Jim McCartney at Precision Studios . |
| 7 | But though the blood was pounding in her head and her vision was blurred she managed to take up the envelope again and lie down with it on her bed . |
| 8 | So why have you started taking up the bag ? |
| 9 | She had taken up the idea , she supposed , and made everything bend to it . |
| 10 | On the other hand , when she had taken up the carpets for a dance for Algy and filled the house with sixteen-year-old boys from Harrow and Marlborough , she twitched to the thin soprano signals of public-school lust like a dog hearing the squeak of a rat in its sleep . |
| 11 | By this time he would not have been surprised if she had taken up the lecture and returned him a brief history of the next four centuries . |
| 12 | There might be no ready and easy solution to the problems that taxi drivers face , but there are those , such as the Peace Train organisation , who have taken up the taxi drivers ' case and are concerned to alter public opinion and attitudes generally in Northern Ireland . |
| 13 | A personalised scroll , a car stickers and a copy of the book Investigating the Seashore are among the benefits enjoyed by people who have taken up the offer . |
| 14 | Since you have taken up the Mastership of Jesus College , what have you done to encourage this , especially young contemporary British artists ? |
| 15 | We 're putting some money away for e expenses , we 've taken up the option to purchase , we 've put in a planning application for change of use , we investigated possible grant applications , we 're investigating future expenditure and income generation , and then we report back to this committee once . |
| 16 | That is why we have taken up the position that we have over GATT , a position which is widely welcomed by that industry . |
| 17 | While the Prime Minister himself denied that he would be the first executive President , in the absence of any obvious independent candidates , there was an assumption that whoever did take up the office would closely reflect Lee 's views . |
| 18 | In hindsight , it might have been better for him to have taken up the offer . |
| 19 | He has taken up the challenge to lead . |
| 20 | In fact , Mr Shiratori has been one of Japan 's representative 's on the IASC since 1984 and is well versed in all the issues ; he is also well aware that he has taken up the reins of office at a critical time for the IASC . |
| 21 | It has taken up the cause of a South Ronaldsay mother , seven of whose children have been in care since November 1990 . |
| 22 | Would anyone like to take up the challenge of demystifying this article ; and how would Tania Guha herself ‘ rewrite ’ it if it were to be read by those ‘ others ’ who have not yet been through the intellectual sieve of the university hierarchy ? |
| 23 | One night , in the privacy of their own bedroom , he decided to take up the matter again with Elizabeth . |
| 24 | When I was about eleven , he must have been about fourteen or fifteen , and he decided to take up the concert flute — so he suggested that instead of us staying on tin whistles , we should all take up different instruments . |
| 25 | He chose to take up the issue precisely because he thought it could not possibly lead to war , in that neither the Tsar , nor the Sultan in whose Empire Jerusalem was , would see the issue as of such importance . |
| 26 | In his ten years with Intelligence he rose to the rank of colonel , but his superiors ' prejudice against his British ancestry and education became unbearable and he resigned to take up the post offered to him with UNACO . |
| 27 | Each one of them will know what it means to take up the challenge year after year of a yet higher fund raising target . ’ |
| 28 | If your Association has decided that it wishes to take up the offer of accommodation at South Gyle the Council needs to know : |
| 29 | He had taken up the cello at Gordonstoun , when his housemaster , Bob Whitby , could stand the noise of the bagpipes — his chosen instrument — no longer . |
| 30 | He had taken up the post with the NITB after spending eight years in Glasgow . |