Example sentences of "take up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some would take up for ever more space than they were entitled to — like my mother 's wedding dress , shrouded in sheet linen , suspended in time , uncrushed by the other more workaday but less significant garments that crowded together as though they were cold , waiting in a queue , inmates of a zenana to be taken up or not at the Pasha 's pleasure , promiscuously gathered , at the mercy of their owner . |
| 2 | The underlying idea of the central focus with its grouped dependencies here exactly meets the requirements of the case , and one need not hesitate as to whether the drawing-room or the dining-room carpet should be taken up for dancing … . ’ |
| 3 | Ten thousand people were taken up for a guinea a ride of a few moments . |
| 4 | Have there been any developments on the guitar synth front which you 've taken up for this album ? |
| 5 | He explained that there were a limited number of places , with sixteen or seventeen taken up for September already ( I wondered whether this meant Balbinder might be unlucky , but did not like to ask ) . |
| 6 | Finally , at the low end , Acorn spin-off , Advanced RISC Machines , seems set to battle it out with AT&T 's Hobbit RISC in the handheld computer market — ARM has been taken up for Apple 's Newton range , while Hobbit is expected to be the RISC target for Go Corp 's PenPoint operating system . |
| 7 | The boarding plank had been taken up for the night . |
| 8 | Surely it had been a joke , prompted by the dreadful heavy seriousness of Dwight Kronweiser and the overreverent attitude to Walter taken up for public reasons by Viola . |
| 9 | As in the past , a collection is to be taken up for the Ecclesiastical Students Fund , and this will take the place of the regular second collection . |
| 10 | The usual collection is to be taken up for the Communications work of the Church . |
| 11 | What is more , it has been taken up for use in other situations , so that J.C . |
| 12 | There has been reference in the Selby area for the likelihood that land initially allocated for industry will in fact be taken up for a supermarket . |
| 13 | My accountant is n't sitting here on my shoulder , and I 'd have to ask her , Bill , but it 's certainly we do n't assume a hundred per cent take up for the purposes of estimating like this . |