Example sentences of "[vb past] to take up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were some cottage industries which came to take up part of the " space " left by factory spinning , such as straw-hat making and lace making , but they were more localised and tended even by the standards of hand spinning to be low-paid . |
| 2 | The continuing Gulf crisis was characterized during September by ( i ) the progressive strengthening of the military position of the multinational anti-Iraq coalition , as forces arrived to take up positions in the region and further commitments were made ; ( ii ) the tightening of the economic embargo , extended to include interdiction of air traffic from Sept. 25 ; and ( iii ) the growing perception on the diplomatic front that a negotiated solution might only be achievable in the context of a wider consideration of conflicts in the region . |
| 3 | And you decided to take up floristry because you saw a course advertised in a magazine ? ’ |
| 4 | William III 's one ambition was to topple Louis XIV of France and when James II went to Ireland to establish a following there , William decided to take up arms against him . |
| 5 | Huy had been more help to the Medjay than he realised ; but it was on his own account that he decided to take up Taheb 's invitation and visit her . |
| 6 | On the death of his father in 1853 he decided to take up medicine , and became a student at the London Hospital ( MRCS and LSA , 1856 ) , where he won many prizes . |
| 7 | 30–4 " The court met to take up consideration of Archibald Currie 's case . |
| 8 | Bolney Estates agreed to take up £1,000 worth and others agreed to buy a further £3,000 worth . |
| 9 | ‘ Sole ’ of my Saviour , she thought and started to giggle , but then she had to take up Jitka who had fallen by the kneeling board and was crying . |
| 10 | A few people remained to take up lives in the new Wadi Halfa , a bleak tenuous place which sprang up where the railway line from Khartoum comes to an apparently arbitrary end against a low wall of sleepers . |