Example sentences of "[pron] take up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I took up music , it meant giving up all thought of a family . |
| 2 | Quirinus is lord there and he knows me , for it is with he and his Myrcans that I took up service over a year ago . |
| 3 | It happened with me , when at the age of 18 , I took up pen and paper to make a reply to the readers ' letters column of the Glasgow Evening Times , in answer to a man who supported the rise of Nazism in Germany . |
| 4 | I took up golf four years ago , while living in Northern Ireland , where club membership was not a problem . |
| 5 | That 's why I took up PE , training . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Instead , I took up running in order to take more exercise in a shorter time . |
| 8 | I was no good at rugby so I took up rowing . |
| 9 | It 's more comfortable if Herta lies on her side and I take up position behind her . |
| 10 | The best known of these are zeolite , which takes up ammonia ; and charcoal , which will not remove any part of the nitrogen cycle chemicals but will purify the water of many of the unpleasant things that arrive unwanted through the tap including chlorine , and remove tinges of colour from the water . |
| 11 | Billy had come home a physical wreck and it was only when Danny himself took up boxing seriously that his friend regained some of his self-esteem by helping and instructing him . |
| 12 | It is not difficult to think of other examples — the man who takes up golf to be seen with the ‘ right sort of people ’ the competitor more interested in the prize than the process of winning it ; the senior common-room member who can not converse without showing off . |
| 13 | In The Games , he was cast as British milkman Harry Hayes , who takes up athletics for a joke , is spotted by a former champion runner and ends up in an Olympic Marathon . |
| 14 | She plays Isobel Hetherington — a young woman with three daughters — who takes up residence in a seaside resort during the hot summer of 1887 . |
| 15 | Will you take up residence in France ? ’ |
| 16 | " Why did you take up forestry ? " she asked him . |
| 17 | ‘ Are you taking up boxing as a hobby ? ’ |
| 18 | She took up tennis after finding that she was simply in the way if she appeared on the film set . |
| 19 | She took up guitar at seven , gave her first recital at nine , her first concerto at 10 , her first radio broadcast at 14 , won an international guitar competition at 17 , and has continued to pick up awards and critical plaudits on her chosen instrument . |
| 20 | It is only three years since she took up painting dogs as a profession , but in that short time she has been kept constantly in work . |
| 21 | Naturally she took up residence , and by the time Nigel came back she was well established . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But for hundreds of sightseers who took up vantage points in the nearby mountains and on the main deck of an Urnersee pleasure boat , it was the disappointment of the year . |
| 24 | There seem to have been a lot of people who took up painting for a while and then dropped it : often enough , like the young Roger Vadim , to become a cineaste or a designer in the lively world of small theatres ( which are also extensively documented in the Pavillon des Arts . ) |
| 25 | But all did not go smoothly for Andrew , who took up golf three years ago . |
| 26 | He sent for his wife and their three children , who took up residence with him in the old palace . |
| 27 | Does my hon. Friend accept , however , that among pensioners , particularly those who took up residence in sheltered accommodation after 1988 , there is a real fear of injustice , in that some of them have to pay the full licence and some of them do not ? |
| 28 | We have two women Equal Opportunities Officers who took up post in early September . |
| 29 | In response to the setting up of the " constitutional " government , the Fujimori government authorized sentences of between four and seven years for dismissed public officials who refused to relinquish their posts or for those who took up office , performed duties or issued orders without due authorization . |
| 30 | ‘ Then might n't it help keep your mind off things if you took up war work ? |