Example sentences of "take up [noun sg] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In The Games , he was cast as British milkman Harry Hayes , who takes up athletics for a joke , is spotted by a former champion runner and ends up in an Olympic Marathon . |
| 2 | She plays Isobel Hetherington — a young woman with three daughters — who takes up residence in a seaside resort during the hot summer of 1887 . |
| 3 | The Spirit comes and takes up residence in a man once he is invited in . |
| 4 | Well as an association , we naturally get ourselves involved with many other aspects of the university activities in that erm both the students are applicants of ours and come and talk to us about projects which they may like to see emerge , and other departments of the university , the music department etc. , sometimes find that our knowledge of the area , or certain aspects of some of the schemes that we 're operating , coincide with what they 're trying to do and it turns out to be that campuses like this are often useful places for residencies and artists will come and take up residency in a university for a period of time , and that 's often been exploited by the Association . |
| 5 | The cutters then took up position in a square around Guiding Lights which was still moving at about ten knots . |
| 6 | A posse of the Party 's agents took up position behind a group of Young Conservatives who were threatening to unfold a banner . |
| 7 | There seem to have been a lot of people who took up painting for a while and then dropped it : often enough , like the young Roger Vadim , to become a cineaste or a designer in the lively world of small theatres ( which are also extensively documented in the Pavillon des Arts . ) |
| 8 | In 1865 , Richard Arkell started brewing , for corn millers often took up brewing as a sideline . |
| 9 | I was in the lower sixth , taking Maths , English General , and Biology , so I dropped the Biology and took up English with a tutor . |
| 10 | Around 1834 his father took up business as a gilder and ormolu manufacturer in London . |
| 11 | He took up rowing in a wherry , and finally worked up to a single shell . |
| 12 | ‘ Are you taking up boxing as a hobby ? ’ |
| 13 | For a speaker of English as a mother tongue , taking up EFL as a career is a quixotic choice , full of opportunities but also full of uncertainties and pitfalls . |
| 14 | inform about society , thus continuing the induction of pupils which they are already experiencing into the tradition which is theirs by virtue either of birth or of taking up residence in a country . |
| 15 | So the peregrine was taken up country to a falconry and raptor breeding centre . |
| 16 | One of them has taken up residence in a hut in Roche 's garden . |
| 17 | Richmann had found a couple of his men in one of the city 's bars , and dragged them out to take up position around a junction in the northern poor quarter . |
| 18 | The energy and enthusiasm black youth have for certain sports and the disproportionately high number wanting to take up sport as a career provides at least the initial indication that they see in successful black sportsmen models for themselves . |
| 19 | In this novel , the genteel young heroine from the south of England , Margaret , is compelled by her father 's reduced circumstances to take up residence in a city called Milton , closely based on Manchester , and comes into social contact with a local mill-owner called Thornton . |
| 20 | 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 ! |
| 21 | ‘ Never take up poker as a way of life — you 'd starve . |