Example sentences of "[coord] take up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teclis returns to Ulthuan and takes up the position of High Loremaster in the Tower of Hoeth . |
| 2 | It is critical at this stage , though , that the head conveys positive messages and takes up the opportunities on offer . |
| 3 | Within months of Ray McSharry leaving Irish politics and taking up the post of E.C . |
| 4 | If the Home Secretary does not want the Bill to do serious damage to internal discipline in prisons , resulting in matters that should be dealt with by internal disciplinary procedures going to court and taking up the time of the criminal justice system — making it far more difficult for prison governors to run their prisons — he had better look again at that clause and amend it . |
| 5 | Five minutes later a passenger aircraft appeared overhead and took up a hold at 7,000 feet . |
| 6 | Most of my friends collapsed thankfully on to their beds , but I slunk down the long flights of stone stairs and took up a position in the foyer where I could watch the front door . |
| 7 | He emigrated to Washington D.C. with his wife and two young sons , John and Philip , and took up a job as cornet player with the Barnum & Bailey Circus band . |
| 8 | He and took up a career as a TV commentator with Murray Walker and was recently reported to have cash problems . |
| 9 | Those who rejected the conventional view and took up the cause of Czechoslovakian children were largely outside the mainstream of refugee aid . |
| 10 | Paul Owen has was appointed Director of the BCU and took up the post on February 17th . |
| 11 | Rachel rose from the bed and took up the tray from the bed-side table . |
| 12 | When the war ended in 1813 , he returned to New York and took up an appointment in charge of the design and construction of ships for the U.S. Navy in its Brooklyn yard . |
| 13 | And you ca n't let people touch them so they have to be in glass cases which are hugely expensive and take up a lot of room , and the director is not very interested in costume . |
| 14 | It is merely my desire that you complete your studies and take up a form of employ that may be useful for my purposes at some time in the future . |
| 15 | When the War Office discovered in 1881 that Clarke had been at a home station for twenty-seven years , it ordered him to sever his connection with the Ordnance Survey and take up a post in Mauritius . |
| 16 | Beowulf says that he would like to sail for Hrothgar 's land and take up the fight against the monster . |
| 17 | Her fingers swim with the water between folds of flesh and take up the rhythm of the light . |
| 18 | When this bizarre situation had resolved itself , as it must , she would put her Venetian adventure behind her and take up the threads of her life once more . |