Example sentences of "had taken up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While at Howard University he had taken up a position as a consultant on Caribbean affairs , this led him into full-time work for the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission , where in 1948 , he became its Deputy Chairman based in Port of Spain . |
| 2 | There was no sign of Benny , but Ace assumed that the Professor had taken up a position on the other side of the stanchion . |
| 3 | Mr McWhirter had shuffled in , looking like a morose vagrant , some ten minutes late , and had taken up a position in front of the fire . |
| 4 | After years of study he had qualified in Mining Engineering and had taken up a post as a college lecturer on mining . |
| 5 | Stuart and Alice will be making their home in Reigate where Stuart had taken up a post at St. Mary 's . |
| 6 | He caught the glint of a smile from Fael-Inis at that , and felt a sudden delight , because the fire was surging up all about them , and Fael-Inis had taken up a stance at the fore of the Chariot , and he was gathering up silken reins between his hands , only the reins were of living colour and shifting light , and there were certainly spells within them as there had certainly been spells in the Chamber of the Looms … |
| 7 | Mr Paisley said he had taken up an invitation from Miss Boothroyd to raise his concerns after an unsuccessful request by Upper Bann MP David Trimble for an urgent debate in the Commons yesterday . |
| 8 | He had taken up the cello at Gordonstoun , when his housemaster , Bob Whitby , could stand the noise of the bagpipes — his chosen instrument — no longer . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | By July 6 Mladenov 's own Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP — the renamed Bulgarian Communist Party ) had taken up the call for his resignation with an editorial in the party newspaper Duma . |
| 11 | He had taken up the post with the NITB after spending eight years in Glasgow . |
| 12 | They were drawn up by Lamar Alexander , who on March 18 had taken up the post of Education Secretary following the December 1990 resignation of Lauro Cavazos [ see p. 37911 ] . |