Example sentences of "take up [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most immediate is that they take up oxygen from water to support their respiration and produce carbon dioxide . |
| 2 | The one is a very limited exercise — the other will influence their whole lives now and later on , whether they take up painting as a profession , business organisation or tea planting in Ceylon ! |
| 3 | That form of life , with reason as a constitutive part , brings with it a larger transformation in the way individuals approach , view and take up stances towards all their experiences . |
| 4 | They may not have information about users ' success ( or lack of it ) in searching for particular books , or for books on particular subjects , or the extent to which users locate substitutes for their original choices , or the extent to which users browse or take up materials on impulse , or the manner in which impulse choices are taken up . |
| 5 | ‘ We had been escorting a convoy from Halifax to the UK and were ordered to leave the convoy , refuel in Reykjavik and take up patrol of the Denmark Strait , 150 miles west of Iceland . |
| 6 | ‘ Never take up poker as a way of life — you 'd starve . |
| 7 | are also erm being involved in take up campaign for the s for the same thing . |
| 8 | Take up problems with your BT office ( phone number on bill ) , then contact the Office of Telecommunications ( Oftel ) if you live in England ; otherwise , your National Advisory Committee on Telecommunications ( number in phone book ) . |
| 9 | Ian says we both ought to leave and either take up work as a married couple in another practice with a view of eventual partnership or set up on our own somewhere , a good long way from here , of course . |
| 10 | As well as entering professional art practice , students from the course take up work in education , publishing , arts administration , community arts , entertainment , the media , and business , and placements can be arranged in these areas . |
| 11 | I run to the house , creep back up to the Roombed , and take up position at the window . |
| 12 | It 's more comfortable if Herta lies on her side and I take up position behind her . |
| 13 | They then take up positions as if they were the people in the photograph . |
| 14 | To be honest , empty barrels just take up space on the |
| 15 | I take up points of view I do n't actually support strongly and start defending them to the hilt . |
| 16 | I had an ultimatum from Great-gran : if I take up proceedings for a divorce , then I go out of here , but dear Andrew stays . ’ |
| 17 | Take up references before giving credit , lending money , letting in tenants , taking on staff . |
| 18 | Until human beings take up roles in an enterprise , it is merely a collection of buildings and plant . |
| 19 | Cissie had been most reluctant to surrender her independence and take up employment in Moll Sutton 's flower shop . |
| 20 | His ‘ Happy Workers ’ — hand cast in plastic — take up residence at 303 until 19 December . |
| 21 | These group-living females show remarkable degrees of social tolerance and sometimes take up residence in large , communal nests , carrying all their kittens in there and piling them up in a huge , squirming mass . |
| 22 | They take up residence in some numbers in marsh and swampland . |
| 23 | If you wish to get married in a church which is not in either parish , you will have to apply to be put on the electoral roll or take up residence in the parish for the period over which the banns will be read . |
| 24 | She was only disturbed by the fact that , once the funeral was over , her mother-in-law made no attempt to leave the Manor and take up residence in the dower house . |
| 25 | Joan had accepted without reservation her half-sister 's suggestion that she go with Prince Richard and take up residence in the Tower . |
| 26 | Paradoxically however the demand for better films saw the American film industry move away from its natural habitat and take up residence in a suburban section of what was essentially a southern Californian oasis . |
| 27 | Peter Halley 's recent works take up residence in the cool vast spaces of the Gagosian garage on Wooster Street while down the street , at Louver , ‘ Studies for the Iliad ’ - new paintings by Charles Garabedian are on view from 6 until 11 July . |
| 28 | take up residence in caves , deserted houses or barns ; nor are they seen in enclosed places such as box canyons and gullies , or anywhere they could be trapped ; |
| 29 | He can come within us , and take up residence within our very beings . |
| 30 | Yes , five out of six people who take up prescriptions under the umbrella of the NHS are exempt from charges . |