Example sentences of "taken up [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The TRAGEDIANS have taken up positions for the continuation of the mime : which in this case means a love scene , sexual and passionate , between the QUEEN and the POISONER/KING . ) |
| 2 | Armoured carriers had taken up positions in the east of the city but the western approaches seemed to be still subject to heavy fighting . |
| 3 | Increased nuclear power production has taken up part of the electricity generation market lost by oil but the expansion of nuclear power has been far less significant than was planned for and predicted throughout the 1970s . |
| 4 | Every available battery was brought to bear on the French guns , but many of these had taken up position behind the parapets of the forts clustered on the Bois Bourrus ridge and were consequently most difficult to hit . |
| 5 | All three had been members of the Khmer Rouge administration in the eastern section of Cambodia who had taken up arms against the Pol Pot regime in 1978 . |
| 6 | IN THE wake of his suspension , French prop GREGOIRE LASCUBE has taken up refereeing in the hope that his six months ' ban will be reduced . |
| 7 | And all , all the other things we 've listed out that have taken up time of the team were n't being done in September . |
| 8 | The Dee at Chester was fishable but the only action was from 40 cormorants who have taken up residence above the weir . |
| 9 | Durham 's Ray Currie , drawn at the dam end , punched a groundbait feeder and maggot 60 yards out taking 16 specimens all of which had chunks missing and fungus growing following their close encounters with the scavenging birds which have taken up residence on the water . |
| 10 | Already certain less-than-fashionable New Yorkers have taken up residence in the sewers and subway shafts . |
| 11 | It made her feel a little dowdy , as though she had taken up residence in the suburbs of morality . |
| 12 | Rumour has it that he has taken up residence in the port of Leith , near enough to Edinburgh but , should matters go wrong , the best place for his departure by land or sea . |
| 13 | After the service was over , they broke their fast in the small whitewashed refectory before approaching the Prior who confirmed his speculation of the previous evening that the Lord Bruce and his entourage had taken up residence in the port of Leith . |
| 14 | The article said the chairman of TV London had just taken up residence in the castle . |
| 15 | This was the emotion he had tried to purge himself of by identifying with the snakes that had taken up residence in the ashes of his family 's land . |