Example sentences of "[pron] take up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I take up a book and try to read . |
| 2 | I take up a rifle and being that I am a crack shot , I win something to hang on a car mirror . |
| 3 | You take up a left stance and line yourself up so that your left foot is in front of the opponent 's right , and your right is in front of his left . |
| 4 | You take up a new career in advertising … |
| 5 | Robson was , in one sense , simply echoing the words of Maitland that ‘ if you take up a modern volume of the reports of the Queen 's Bench division , you will find that about half the cases reported have to do with rules of administrative law ’ and that you must ‘ not neglect their existence in your general description of what English law is ’ otherwise ‘ you will frame a false and antiquated notion of our constitution ’ The fact that Robson felt the need to propound this view so strongly , and that Maitland 's thoughts seemed to have been almost entirely neglected , serve to indicate that conservative normativism had by the 1920s become established as the dominant tradition . |
| 6 | Now that really does put you directly in the front-line when you 're answering the phone , so that call could be for anybody , when you take up a night-line call . |
| 7 | There are children and families who take up a great deal of teacher time and attention . |
| 8 | The chances are that a management , such as described by Menninger or by myself , who take up a ‘ fight ’ /conflict posture vis-à-vis their workers , thus bring out the latent hostility and anger and push the worker , and themselves , into the rebellious position . |
| 9 | The shrewd parent now gets our free starter pack for their son or daughter when they take up a place at Manor Park . |
| 10 | Beside having a green image , they are particularly popular with supermarkets : on some calculations , they take up a quarter as much shelf space per wash as even concentrated powders . |