Example sentences of "he took up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After serving as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East and Paris , he took up a new job in Berlin on the very day in 1930 when the Reichstag election heralded unprecedented barbarism in Europe . |
| 2 | In 1873 he took up a similar appointment with the Great Eastern Railway . |
| 3 | In 1978 he took up a Senior Registrar post in Diabetes at the General Hospital , Birmingham , and in 1981 his present post as Consultant Physician at Dudley Road Hospital , Birmingham . |
| 4 | They were n't able to give him this so he took up a reciprocal heading and dropped down to 2,000 ‘ ft ‘ and eventually found Humberside — all the time trying to figure out what had gone wrong . |
| 5 | Instead he took up a lucrative coaching post with the Botswana Youth team . |
| 6 | He took up the remote controller and did the ever-popular ‘ Channel Hop ’ . |
| 7 | They walked round all day with their heads slumped between their shoulders like this ’ — he took up the appropriate attitude — ‘ instead of like this , as the British do . ’ |
| 8 | He took up the daily routine of his swim again , and one afternoon when he was in the sea there was a visit to the bungalow by Timothy Gedge . |