Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] took up " in BNC.

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1 Whilst the ladies sat in the pavilion and the knights and their squires stood at their stations I took up my position at the serving table .
2 After retirement she took up many interests including cookery to a very high standard .
3 Together with the freight stations they took up a considerable area of the city .
4 Now she has moved on again — in late October she took up a new appointment in Rotherham .
5 The following day we took up the problem again .
6 Despite the opposition of his father he took up the study of medicine , first at Leipzig University and then in Vienna , where his funds ran out , forcing him to take employment for a time with the Governor of Transylvania until he had accumulated sufficient money to continue his studies .
7 In their progress they took up the whole width of the footpath .
8 They were few in number , but attracted an attention out of all proportion to the space they took up in the exhibition .
9 From 1960 until 1967 he was employed as manager of the Buchanan Arms Hotel , and after holding posts at various Scottish colleges he took up his present post in 1983 as Head of Hotel Management and Catering at Glasgow College of Food Technology .
10 The last cause she took up was that of Dom Pedro Casaldaliga , poet and bishop of a remote Amazonian diocese , unjustly pursued by the Vatican .
11 The methods adopted by these tenants ' associations were those of lobbying and persuasion and the issues they took up were specific grievances affecting their own members , not the problem of housing as it related to the political system in Northern Ireland .
12 R not to sort o determine in any way , the kinds of issues they took up .
13 Having lost the Conservative party leadership contest to John Major he took up the position of President of the Board of Trade after the last election …
14 Not all the causes he took up were quite the product of personal initiative that they later came to seem .
15 To get her gold she took up bell ringing , did a lot of swimming , helped the National Trust clear up after the 1988 hurricane , and completed a 50 mile long trek in Glencoe in four days .
16 That same year they took up that old chestnut , the inspection of laundries attached to Roman Catholic ( and now Anglican ) nunneries ; they were annoyed that these had been excluded from the Factory Bill then before Parliament .
17 I often used to read it when we were in action and , believe it or not , every time I took up the book it opened at page 92 , although I have never deliberately read that page , as far as I can remember — so I took the hint and wrote … ’
18 Meehan , at the time I took up his case , had had three solicitors , all from Glasgow : Joseph Beltrami for his trial , then Ross Harper and later Leonard Murray .
19 ‘ You know I really think it 's about time I took up smoking again , gentlemen . ’
20 'When she took up with Suleiman. ’ 'She was always tagging along with someone . ’
21 At the time we took up the , the secretary took took up the matter and I got him to send us er a copy of the reply , and it , it appears that , as you know it 's all voluntary and , and it relies charity for individuals , but I noticed , I only got this from Ron yesterday , paragraph here says , where the community demonstrates it 's active support for such adventure , then there is an increase likelihood of the establish of a service , although it has to be said that there already exists a waiting list of communities eager to re receive P D S A support .
22 It is time we took up the second of my headings , language as screen .
23 This time they took up Bright 's original suggestion and spliced the cable in mid-ocean on July 29 1858 .
24 He then forced himself to get through the rest of the day without writing , so that the well would have replenished its juice by the time he took up his pencil again the next daybreak .
25 He started work at the Stationers ' Company School , London , in 1874 , and by the time he took up a post at Grantham Grammar School in 1884 he had already taught in Saffron Walden , Winchester , Newbury , and Cambridge .
26 Whatever interest he took up , he would begin by a painstaking study of the language and then buy all the correct equipment , before he actually did anything practical .
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