Example sentences of "[pers pn] take up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So I took up a hold on 210 overhead the ditched pilot using Rate 1s as crosswind and base legs . |
| 2 | Here I took up a position with the grand title of ‘ Consultant ’ . |
| 3 | I took up a lot of my daffs and started , erm erm I never take them up every year |
| 4 | ‘ I took up the cups of coffee , five cups , and they give me only four straws , not five , ’ he explained carefully . |
| 5 | I took up the tin-whistle in earnest |
| 6 | I took up the tin with the matches in it and lit the candles ; they burned yellowly and I knelt , clenching my fists and thinking . |
| 7 | Why wo n't she take up the offer of just a fortnight 's short-stay ? |
| 8 | Soon afterwards she took up a position at the hospital . |
| 9 | She then went to Victoria Station and bought a return ticket to Epsom , where she took up a position in the pressing crowd on the inside rails at Tattenham Corner , a few yards before the runners reach the straight . |
| 10 | She has been active in local politics since 1985 when she took up a seat on Cleveland county council for Victoria ward , Thornaby . |
| 11 | She took up the pastime after impressing friends and family when she made an engagement cake for her brother-in-law . |
| 12 | She took up the handles of the hand-cart and began to push it , and now there was room only for the child to walk by the side of it . |
| 13 | After she completed her degree course , they moved to the United States , where she took up an appointment as an instructor in English at Smith College . |
| 14 | It is also important to look at why you took up the job in the first instance , even if 20 years have elapsed in the meantime . |
| 15 | It was dark when we took up a position among thick briars and long grass . |
| 16 | At this point we take up the experience of those who returned to their former jobs . |
| 17 | Later we take up the case of natural or pure monopoly where huge economies of scale allow only a single producer to survive in an industry . |
| 18 | Toby saw him take up the pile of wet flannel from beside the bath and chuck it at his face . |
| 19 | They took up the whole of the street and nothing could move until this sea of humanity had passed by . ’ |
| 20 | However , as time progressed they took up the argument of legislation requirement and professional competence as a form of self-defence and as a means of maintaining their professional standing not only in their own eyes , but in the eyes of other planners , and in the eyes of their fellow colleagues in Kirkwall . |
| 21 | I my money l last time and they took up the limit on my cash card . |
| 22 | John Lowe 's mental attainments at the age of 18 were so great that his father saw nothing incongruous in advising him to take up the law as a profession . |
| 23 | Chris Hani , chief of staff of MK , was not allocated a portfolio , pending a request by the SACP to release him to take up the post of deputy SACP general secretary full-time . |
| 24 | As to what would have happened without the event of the accident in her A level year by way of results , I regret I have to find as a fact that she would not in the year of her accident , have achieved the grades necessary for her to take up a place at Norwich City College . |
| 25 | The shrewd parent now gets our free starter pack for their son or daughter when they take up a place at Manor Park . |
| 26 | Yeah , well they 're all erm like er they 're really , the batteries that they use , they take up the whole of the boot |
| 27 | One eye shifts right round the body so that it takes up a position alongside the other . |
| 28 | I mean , if you 've got a fuzzy-sounding guitar running through everything it takes up a lot of space in the mix . |
| 29 | It is n't a large place , but it takes up a lot of your time . ’ |
| 30 | But anyway I know it takes up a lot of time and a lot of our columns . |