Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] take up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had n't occurred to her that I might take up the blackmail where Jack Mahoney had left off . |
| 2 | ‘ For another , if it is n't too far ahead for you to enquire into this , Harry , then I might take up an invitation I 've received to attend Newmarket races at the beginning of October . |
| 3 | I shall take up the matter more fully later in my remarks . |
| 4 | However , if it really is I will take up a collection for the medical fees . |
| 5 | Er , Erm , another thing you might do , you might take up a hobby that you 've got to think about . |
| 6 | They would sing Welsh songs together , she would take up the descant , he would make up verses with just a little edge to them . |
| 7 | If you can imagine and would like to discover the reality of Slaley Hall you can take up the offer of a special two night inspection visit for only £95 including golf which Slaley will run throughout the spring of 1991 . |
| 8 | If your Customer Care Unit has not been able to sort out your problem , or if you are not satisfied with their reply , you can take up the matter with your District Manager who will try to help . |
| 9 | If your Customer Care unit has not been able to sort out your problem , or if you are not satisfied with their reply , you can take up the matter with your District Head Postmaster who will try to help . |
| 10 | I can not say that in an administrative context we shall take up every item that appears in the new clauses , at least not in the way that is implied . |
| 11 | NatWest Securities analysts said : ‘ Good management deserves the support of shareholders : we would take up the rights . ’ |
| 12 | However , having carelessly left the shed unlocked , our mower and strimmer were stolen and , as we are both getting on a bit , we decided we would take up the lawn and put down gravel instead . |
| 13 | And then — then they would take up the hoe and become farmers . |
| 14 | This year it includes a series of extravaganzas in sports centres at Omagh , Craigavon , Lisburn and Ballymena and the distribution of a booklet telling children how they can take up a sport . |
| 15 | He convinced himself that speaking Italian to Franco presented a good opportunity to learn and therefore he should take up the challenge . |
| 16 | And so I was extremely surprised when no more than weeks later Émile telephoned Jean-Claude and proposed to him the idea that he should take up an appointment as composer-in-residence at an American university . |
| 17 | To this end he reintroduced a school of industrial design , sacked the Professor of Painting , Gilbert Spencer , who had advised students not to visit the 1945–6 Picasso and Matisse exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum , appointed the former fashion editor of Vogue , Madge Garland , as the first ever Professor of Fashion and invited Allan Walton , who died before he could take up the post , to head the textile department . |
| 18 | He had his time-proven tests for this : one was simply to walk over the land and to ‘ feel it through his boots ’ , ; then again he would take up a handful of soil , carefully crumbling it to test it ; or he would bend down and draw his fist backwards through the soil . |
| 19 | He will take up the duties of Counsellor , Atomic Energy , on August 17 and succeeds Chris Loughlin , who has been appointed Director , Transport Division , from September 1 |
| 20 | He will take up the £51,000 a year job as soon as possible and is expected to have to give up his chairmanship of the all-party defence select committee . |
| 21 | ‘ Once he is quite well , he will take up the reins and the business will be booming again , ’ she said out loud . |