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

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1	In 1892 he took up a post under W. B. Latham in the Birmingham Botanic Gardens , studying at the technical school in Birmingham , where he won the Queen 's prize in botany .
2	On his discharge in 1647 he took up his father 's trade and shortly afterwards married , being , he relates , ‘ poor as poor might be , not having … a dish or spoon between us ’ .
3	In 1884 he took up his last post , as fellow of the Royal University of Ireland and professor of Greek and Latin at University College , Dublin .
4	In 1873 he took up a similar appointment with the Great Eastern Railway .
5	He earned his first Chair , at Southampton , in 1972 , and in 1981 he took up the oldest and most senior Chair of Archaeology in Britain , the Disney Professorship at Cambridge , where he is presiding over a great expansion of archaeological studies there with the creation of the Macdonald Institue for Archaeological Research .
6	In October 1911 he took up a position as pupil and lay assistant to the Revd Herbert Wigan , the vicar of Dunsden , near Reading .
7	In 1978 he took up a Senior Registrar post in Diabetes at the General Hospital , Birmingham , and in 1981 his present post as Consultant Physician at Dudley Road Hospital , Birmingham .
8	In his early fifties he took up flying , gaining both French Aviators ' and Royal Aero Club certificates .
9	In the thirties he took up abstract painting then in 1942 he was commissioned as a war artist , painting the bombed Coventry Cathedral .
10	In the thirties he took up abstract painting then in 1942 he was commissioned as a war artist , painting the bombed Coventry Cathedral .
11	However , in 1855 he took up the post of professor of drawing at King 's College , London , which he combined with book illustration .
12	I like boxing and when I was suspended in the summer of 1990 I took up boxing and accepted , perhaps too quickly , a fight against the then French light-heavyweight champion .

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