Example sentences of "[pers pn] took 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 | Soon afterwards she took up a position at the hospital . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She has been active in local politics since 1985 when she took up a seat on Cleveland county council for Victoria ward , Thornaby . |
| 10 | She took up the pastime after impressing friends and family when she made an engagement cake for her brother-in-law . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was dark when we took up a position among thick briars and long grass . |
| 15 | They took up the whole of the street and nothing could move until this sea of humanity had passed by . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I my money l last time and they took up the limit on my cash card . |
| 18 | One of the best descriptions of the landscape of Madeira is that given by White and Johnson ( Madeira. : Its Climate and Scenery , 1860 ) : ‘ When Columbus was asked by Queen Isabella to give her some notion of the configuration of Jamaica , it is said that he took up a sheet of paper , and after crushing it in his hand , partly opened it out ; then placing it on the table , he told her Majesty that she would derive a better idea of the island from the crumpled paper than from any description conveyed in words . |
| 19 | In October 1911 he took up a position as pupil and lay assistant to the Revd Herbert Wigan , the vicar of Dunsden , near Reading . |
| 20 | He took up a cloth by the side of the cash register and started to move it slowly over the surface , looking up just once as I left the shop , saying , ‘ Goodbye , then . ’ |
| 21 | Nothing is known of him until , at the age of fourteen , he took up a sort of apprenticeship with a widow near Lowestoft . |
| 22 | Bremner is one of many Scottish players who made a remarkable transformation when he took up a career in management . |
| 23 | Avowing his apostasy , he left Dunsden in February 1913 , and , after a short stay with his family , he took up a post as a teacher of English at the Berlitz school in Bordeaux . |
| 24 | He was trained at Bradford Technical College and the Royal College of Art , and was employed as a textile designer in Bradford until 1911 , when he took up a post as inspector of arts and crafts in the Egyptian Ministry of Education in Cairo . |
| 25 | He took up a post as an executive with a engineering firm before winning the South Edinburgh seat in a by-election in 1957 . |
| 26 | In 1892 he took up a post under W. B. Latham in the Birmingham Botanic Gardens , studying at the technical school in Birmingham , where he won the Queen 's prize in botany . |
| 27 | He started work at the Stationers ' Company School , London , in 1874 , and by the time he took up a post at Grantham Grammar School in 1884 he had already taught in Saffron Walden , Winchester , Newbury , and Cambridge . |
| 28 | The following year he registered for study in philosophy and theology at the University of Leyden and , apart from a brief return to Rostock , remained in The Netherlands until he took up a post at the University of Copenhagen in June 1648 . |
| 29 | Having lost the Conservative party leadership contest to John Major he took up the position of President of the Board of Trade after the last election … |
| 30 | Since he took up the position in 1987 , closures of geriatric hospitals , partnership with the private sector , nurse regradings , NHS trusts and a review of maternity and acute services , which will cut over 1,000 hospital beds and possibly lead to a closure of a number of hospitals , are among the controversies which have raged . |