Example sentences of "take up the [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some individuals can take up the suggestions of the hypnotist to the extent of becoming deaf or blind or unable to smell ; they may withstand pain without a murmur , re-experience being a six-year old , or even forget everything that happened , after hypnosis , until given a prearranged ‘ release ’ signal . |
| 2 | She took up the handles of the hand-cart and began to push it , and now there was room only for the child to walk by the side of it . |
| 3 | Manchester had modest arrangements with Macclesfield and Winsford ; Liverpool had major schemes at Winsford ( again ) and Ellesmere Port ; Wolverhampton built at Wednesfield and Seisdon ; Salford had a major involvement with Worsley ; Newcastle upon Tyne expanded at Killingworth and Cramlington ; Bristol utilized Warmley ; and Walsall also took up the provisions of the Act . |
| 4 | Taking up the strands of the existing conversation , and wishing to demonstrate a point , he slowly poured his coffee over his piece of pulpy apple pie with the over-elaborate air of a novice waiter serving some especial and expensive delicacy . |
| 5 | On the other hand , when she had taken up the carpets for a dance for Algy and filled the house with sixteen-year-old boys from Harrow and Marlborough , she twitched to the thin soprano signals of public-school lust like a dog hearing the squeak of a rat in its sleep . |
| 6 | Despite his postscript , in which he condemned free enterprise systems and declared himself an apologist for socialism in Europe , I am pleased to be able to take up the remarks of the hon. Member for Liverpool , West Derby ( Mr. Wareing ) . |
| 7 | Armstrong was first to take up the cudgels at the end of last season , and a little piece of bantering brought in Harrison . |
| 8 | It would require suicidal altruism to take up the cudgels for the Palestinians . |
| 9 | Within a very few weeks of his father 's death , Lewis found himself obliged once more to take up the routines of an Oxford term : weekly tutorials , college meetings and lectures . |