Example sentences of "[pron] to take up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sometimes did little unexpected kid things out of my tenderness for her , and was always glad to be the one to take up tea for her if she was unwell , and so on , or to help her with the housework when she was servantless . |
| 2 | So she hid all his Persian textbooks and persuaded him to take up badminton instead . |
| 3 | He lays down the only terms on which it is possible for him to take up residence with his people . |
| 4 | As Keith explained , it was not any easier for him to take up employment with the RAF because his father had been a career forces man . |
| 5 | It was nearly time for her to take up position at Ludgate Circus , but first she had to get Ruby to leave . |
| 6 | At one stage her mother had felt she would make a good doctor and did all she could to encourage her to take up medicine . |
| 7 | The HNC in CAE is designed to provide potential Technicians/Technician Engineers with the skills necessary to enable them to take up employment in a multi-disciplinary engineering environment . |
| 8 | On the other hand , women are the targets of a mammoth campaign to persuade them to take up family planning on the grounds that large families are anti-social . |