Example sentences of "[noun sg] to take [pers pn] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact was that there was no place in British films for an actor of Burton 's particular quality and no director to take him up . |
| 2 | In Sydney , while they waited for a steamer to take them up the coast to Newcastle , the Goulds stayed with Dr George Bennett , secretary to the Australian Museum . |
| 3 | Having fallen in love with the theatre in the Free German Youth , a left-wing group dedicated to rebuilding Germany for socialism , Ruth called Bloomsbury House to say ‘ she was very interested in dramatic work and hopes one day to take it up as a career ’ . |
| 4 | If you do n't feel capable of leading it get your mate to take you up , it 's worth it . |
| 5 | Rather than go through the entire process again in a later session , it would make more sense to take it up at the point where it was left off in the previous session , if desired . |
| 6 | Oh yes when the war started yes , you , you see the people would have been called up into the forces anyway people young enough to fly , who , who had an interest , because er one of the air displays I remember very much a tomboy as she was she they used to give pleasure flights and she had defied this pilot to take her up and make her sick , and he was took her up there looping rolling and everything and er |
| 7 | Gazzer wasted twenty minutes on the sea front waiting for a bus to take him up as far as the Leisure Centre . |
| 8 | And in a year or two perhaps I might be in a position to take you up on it . " |
| 9 | It occurs in a book called The Scots Week-end , published by the Carswells in the late 1930s , and crying out for some other publisher to take it up and put it on the market , where it would be grabbed by many eager Scots . |
| 10 | GUIL : ( Returning in time to take it up ) But with much forcing of his disposition . |
| 11 | He and his friends would deliberately allow the quicksand to take them up to their knees before being extricated by the other members of the gang . |