Example sentences of "take up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In The Games , he was cast as British milkman Harry Hayes , who takes up athletics for a joke , is spotted by a former champion runner and ends up in an Olympic Marathon . |
| 2 | But she now takes up music rather late in her education . |
| 3 | IT TAKES UP GARDENING . |
| 4 | It is not difficult to think of other examples — the man who takes up golf to be seen with the ‘ right sort of people ’ the competitor more interested in the prize than the process of winning it ; the senior common-room member who can not converse without showing off . |
| 5 | First , it takes up water and swells after ingestion so , taken before meals , it exerts a satiating effect and may decrease energy intake . |
| 6 | Detailed data takes up space so it can not be presented in a volume of this scale , yet without it much of the theorizing of social anthropologists seems trivial and obvious or merely boastful . |
| 7 | In 1858 a wild rabbit takes up residence in the garden ; Gustave forbids its slaughter . |
| 8 | Initiated by the CBSO under its electrifying young conductor , Simon Rattle , it will soon receive another boost , when Sadler 's Wells Ballet takes up residence in the refurbished Hippodrome under its new name , the Birmingham Royal Ballet . |
| 9 | The Spirit comes and takes up residence in our bodies , which he wants to use as his temple ( Cor. 6:19 ) . |
| 10 | The Spirit comes and takes up residence in a man once he is invited in . |
| 11 | She plays Isobel Hetherington — a young woman with three daughters — who takes up residence in a seaside resort during the hot summer of 1887 . |
| 12 | The best known of these are zeolite , which takes up ammonia ; and charcoal , which will not remove any part of the nitrogen cycle chemicals but will purify the water of many of the unpleasant things that arrive unwanted through the tap including chlorine , and remove tinges of colour from the water . |
| 13 | Mhoira Robertson did take up golf , which became her favourite pastime , and eventually the promotions came , first as Director of studies and Chief Inspector at Tulliallan Police College and finally in 1987 as Superintendent within the Lothians and Borders force . |
| 14 | Within a few days Caledonia was in complete agreement : the entire team should take up golf . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll take up golf in my old age . ’ |
| 16 | They may be worth considering if you live in a high-rise flat , or have infrequent refuse collection , but they do take up space . |
| 17 | no cold cisterns and pipes in the loft to freeze and take up space |
| 18 | He could take up agroforestry ; he could convert to timber ; he could take up government agency schemes and grow winter grass mixtures for wild geese to graze upon , or engineer his fields to be a home for the stone curlew . |
| 19 | Chairman Mao and his little red book actually sort of advocated table tennis because it did n't take up paddy fields ; it was very economical ; you can stick 10 tables in a canteen , so it was very much conducive to the communist way of life and of course , China … |
| 20 | Shall take up gardening . |
| 21 | He could take up agroforestry ; he could convert to timber ; he could take up government agency schemes and grow winter grass mixtures for wild geese to graze upon , or engineer his fields to be a home for the stone curlew . |
| 22 | You 'll take up decorating will you ? |
| 23 | My mother made me take up tap dancing , because I 'd got sparrow legs . |
| 24 | The track index will take up part or all of the first track on each cylinder . |
| 25 | The track index will take up part of the first track of each cylinder . |
| 26 | There is a local problem of some substance , the police have been there , it is a matter because of circumstances people driving on the wrong side of the road , it 's certainly dangerous conditions er and I think it 's reasonable to er take up councillor the this is the practical problem the committee could look at tonight . |
| 27 | If it 's not the best skate mag on the shelf then we had better give up and take up flower pressing . |
| 28 | Marie McCluskey , who runs the Thamesdown Dance Centre , says people of any age can take up dance . |
| 29 | I was worried 'e was gon na take up boxin' after doin' it in the army . |
| 30 | Mr. Russ would take up position just inside the street door armed with his cane . |