Example sentences of "to take up his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poor man was also banished from the grounds of the house to take up his station either at the gate or beyond it . |
| 2 | As they neared their target , Biggins instructed the front gunner to take up his station as the bomb aimer . |
| 3 | At a meeting on 25th September they accepted his explanation and sent him back to Stockport , where he apparently continued his work for a total of thirteen years , until Chorleton returned to take up his position . |
| 4 | Col. Abubakar Dada , seconded from the Nigerian army , arrived in Banjul on Aug. 4 to take up his position as commander of the national army of The Gambia , succeeding Col. Momodou Ndow Njie , who resigned following demands by his forces for his removal ; there was no formal defence treaty between The Gambia and Nigeria . |
| 5 | He may ask his Member of Parliament to take up his case . |
| 6 | Last night he was planning to contact Newton Aycliffe Coun Tony Moore , who has offered to take up his case , and officials of Sedgefield Council 's housing department . |
| 7 | Harry is supposed to be coming home to take up his inheritance of the family estate , but the emotional pressures of his family force him to escape instead to become a medical missionary . |
| 8 | ‘ She had heard from Cuan and decided to take up his offer to see South Africa . ’ |
| 9 | Born the son of a bank official , he was 23 when he made the five-week voyage to Britain aboard the Northern Star armed with an Auckland University degree to take up his scholarship place at Balliol College , Oxford , in the early 1960s . |
| 10 | On the voyage out to take up his appointment he fell ill and , as the inscription in Lucile records , he was sustained by Major L.S. Bence and enabled to arrive in Calcutta in good shape . |
| 11 | HALEY Geoff Haley joined the Company in April to take up his appointment as Chief Designer in the Design Studio . |
| 12 | After the official count , he was shown to have won 25 per cent of the vote , and later released though he was not allowed , at least temporarily , to take up his seat in Parliament . |
| 13 | Angel Alcalde , who became a deputy for United People ( Herri Batasuna — HB ) , the political wing of ETA , following the assassination on Nov. 20 , 1989 , of Josu Muguruza , an HB deputy in the Cortes [ see p. 37050 ] , was released from prison by order of the courts on Dec. 1 in order to take up his seat . |
| 14 | An FPÖ federal deputy , Helmut Weiss , was in October 1989 forbidden by the FPÖ chair , Haider , to take up his seat in the Nationalrat and was also obliged to give up his seat in the Bundesrat , after he had made controversial statements about the Nazi era . |
| 15 | When the new Parish Priest arrives to take up his post he is very quickly introduced to the petty jealousies and gossip mongering of village life . |
| 16 | Rudolf Bing , the director of the festival , was then about to take up his post as director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York . |
| 17 | Trevor was unable to take up his post because , through circumstances beyond the law , he was forced to lie low in the Bahamas for a couple of years . |
| 18 | When my father arrived in Abyssinia in mid-December 1909 to take up his post as British Minister in charge of the Legation , the Emperor Menelik , the greatest ruler the country had known for centuries , was reported to be still alive ; but no one knew for certain , and all men asked what would happen when he died . |
| 19 | I had given them to Menna when he first left to take up his post . |
| 20 | Professor Andrew Likierman ( 49 ) is to take up his post as Chief Accountancy Adviser to the Treasury on December 1 in succession to Sir Alan Hardcastle , who is retiring . |
| 21 | He was a close friend of Sir Thomas Fairfax ( later third Baron Fairfax of Cameron , q.v. ) and travelled in his entourage to London on 18 February 1645 when Fairfax went to take up his command of the New Model Army . |
| 22 | He made a commitment , between himself and God , — ( ‘ No man asked me to do it ’ ) — to take up his father 's goal , ‘ a hate-free , fear-free , greed-free Africa , peopled by free men and women . ’ |
| 23 | Before returning to Bristol in 1938 to take up his Chair , he held a Harkness Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore . |