Example sentences of "take up [noun] [prep] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Carlos Salinas de Gortari , responding to increasing domestic and international pressure , was reportedly instrumental in compelling Ramon Aguirre Velázquez , a PRI hardliner who had officially won 55 per cent of the vote in Guanajuato , to make the unprecedented announcement on Aug. 29 that he would not take up office as state governor . |
| 2 | took up gadgetry with naie enthusiasm |
| 3 | In 1846 these lime and Roman cement workings were purchased by William Lee , a lime burner from Burham who had already taken up residence at Holborough Court three years earlier . |
| 4 | ‘ I have taken up office in Rex House in London , but will be a frequent visitor to the sites , ’ he pledged . |
| 5 | It was nearly time for her to take up position at Ludgate Circus , but first she had to get Ruby to leave . |
| 6 | On a voyage to Kuwait , perhaps to Ahmadi or Khafji , the drill was to pass the Strait of Hormuz in darkness , travelling straight across to Dubai , anchor for the following day and then set off in the evening to take up position off Das Island . |
| 7 | He 's about to take up residence at Hertford College , Oxford . |