Example sentences of "takes up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | OUR SOCIETY was formed in 1952 and Andy ( Eileen Anderson ) takes up the story : ‘ The very beginning was in the train returning from the 1950 Summer course held at the Medau Schule in Flensburg . |
| 32 | Ashley 's mother Jeanette takes up the story : |
| 33 | The son of the present owner takes up the story . ’ |
| 34 | The player himself takes up the story . |
| 35 | Her subsequent letter to the Managing Director of ICI Paints [ Thailand ] takes up the story : |
| 36 | Spry takes up the attack . |
| 37 | Patrick takes up the thread . |
| 38 | Feeny laughs , whispers , ‘ Cocorico ’ ; they whisper back and she takes up the thread where she left off back in the bathroom : |
| 39 | Bob Wall , engaged in his first big transfer deal at Arsenal as Chapman 's assistant , takes up the story. : |
| 40 | To lift the patient off the bed onto a chair or commode , one carer takes up the position already described , while the other stands behind the patient on the bed and guides the patient 's seat up and round onto the chair . |
| 41 | Teclis returns to Ulthuan and takes up the position of High Loremaster in the Tower of Hoeth . |
| 42 | The order of salvation takes up the order of creation . |
| 43 | Larkin 's poem complains in concert ; it takes up the question of what it is to be sexually debarred . |
| 44 | Tony takes up the journey . |
| 45 | It takes up the concept of ‘ covenant ’ already familiar in the ancient world . |
| 46 | The article in the Evening Standard takes up the issue in the same vein . |
| 47 | Invited to join the King , with his companions the Chancellor Colonel Sapt and his aide-de-camp Fritz von Tarlenheim , on the ruler 's last night of freedom before he takes up the burden of the Crown , Rassendyll is conveniently available to step in when the monarch collapses , drugged by wine presented by his jealous brother Black Michael . |
| 48 | Secrett has refused to comment on his plans until he takes up the post . |
| 49 | Dr. Peter Williamson , who takes up the post at the beginning of April , spends two days in the town and meets the Leukaemia Unit Fund committee on Wednesday evening . |
| 50 | Moreover the novel takes up the remark to Katkov that the criminal ‘ himself morally demands ’ his punishment ( which on its own might mean no more than that Dostoevsky had been reading Hegel or popularized Hegel ) , and builds some marvellous effects upon it . |
| 51 | That and the odd bit of gardening takes up the time . ’ |
| 52 | New chairman takes up the reins |
| 53 | However , when the first violin takes up the theme of the lullaby high up in its register , he plays with a pure sweetness that makes him sound like a luminous voice in the distance . |
| 54 | Dustin 's face stares wide-eyed , unblinking , unemotionally ahead of him while on the soundtrack Simon and Garfunkel 's ‘ Sounds of Silence ’ takes up the theme : ‘ People talking without speaking . |
| 55 | Marcuse takes up the theme of domination through the ideological form of technological reason and shows how it is legitimized by the widespread consumption enabled by increased production . |
| 56 | The second characteristic of the corporatist vision of the company takes up the theme of the obliteration of the distinction between state and society and between public and private to supply a normative vision of the role of corporate management . |
| 57 | This chapter takes up the theme of industrial determination introduced in relation to the Northern Region in Chapter 3 . |
| 58 | I 'm surprised that one did n't work because I mean they 're usually hot on it , you know they know where to go and and usually there 's action taken if a councillor takes up the cause . |
| 59 | Kaohsiung Yamaha covers over 235,000 sq ft of space and houses 800 staff ; electric guitar production takes up the ground floor while acoustics are built upstairs . |
| 60 | If mum takes up the game again , then why not her children in future years ? |