Example sentences of "[noun prp] took up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward took up a position at the door-post . |
| 2 | The only disturbance to its surface happened in the nineteenth century when the architect Gilbert Scott took up the edges in order to install a heating system . |
| 3 | Devon and Cornwall police last Friday took up the case of Pipe 's Her Honour , found to have been doped when flopping at Kempton in January . |
| 4 | Always lying handy as Coco Dancer led for most of the trip , Limeridge took up the running from Coco Dancer going to the last fence and at this stage was hotly pursued by the favourite Canute Express . |
| 5 | Mr Robinson took up the case for a majority of the Castlereagh firemen who left the Fire Service because they were not prepared to uproot their families and move to Carryduff . |
| 6 | Robert took up a position on the boundary , fairly near to the maths master . |
| 7 | When , in the Republican Party 's presidential primaries , Patrick Buchanan took up the endowment as a weapon to wield against George Bush , Mr Frohnmayer 's stay was over . |
| 8 | The " Hallelujah lasses " had been used to raising their own voices in protest and employing some fairly dramatic methods to attract attention from the time Catherine Booth took up the cudgels on behalf of women in the early days of the movement . |
| 9 | Facing an uncertain future in Jamaica as a single mother supporting four children , ( her husband had just left her ) , Rita took up the invitation of a relative who had emigrated to Canada and came to try her luck . |
| 10 | On 9 March , fully one month after the Paris telegram , the Comintern took up the slogan of " the United Front against Fascism " . |
| 11 | Jim took up the slack on his own chain and four others , like the Casting-Master almost naked except for a blackened leather apron and tight-fitting skull cap , pulled and cursed the liquid iron on its descent to the earth . |
| 12 | Herbert Read in his book Education through Art took up the categories of types put forward by Jung . |
| 13 | Forster took up a position with his back to the bows , wedging himself into a corner as Delaney tried the ship 's telephone again , speaking slowly and deliberately . |
| 14 | Professor Juliet Cheetham took up the Directorship in January , 1986 . |
| 15 | Miki and Chris took up the challenge from the Jim Rose Travelling Circus to drink the bile ! |
| 16 | McFarlane took up the question of self-fulfilling prophecies in relation to the perceived incomer/Shetlander conflict which the SIC Structure Plan envisaged . |
| 17 | Beverly Anderson took up the theme of new media . |
| 18 | Dr Mann took up the post of organist and choir master at Beverley at a time when the music at the Minster was at a fairly low ebb . |