Example sentences of "[pron] take up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first I played the bodhran drum [ he pronounced it ‘ bowran ’ ] and then I took up the guitar . |
| 2 | 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 … ’ |
| 3 | I was carried ignominiously between two colleagues back to the car and greeted my wife with the sheepish grin she had been dreading ever since I took up the sport . |
| 4 | I did n't offer an opinion on that since I did n't have any , so I took up the time admiring the surroundings . |
| 5 | ‘ I took up the cups of coffee , five cups , and they give me only four straws , not five , ’ he explained carefully . |
| 6 | Then I took up the painting and carried it back here and I signed it . ’ |
| 7 | Then I took up the double bass and organ for good measure . |
| 8 | I got on well , and at the age of seven , I took up the violin . |
| 9 | ‘ This was where I took up the running , ’ Robert said . |
| 10 | I took up the tin-whistle in earnest |
| 11 | ‘ I took up the sport six years ago when my local team , the Darlington Dawdlers , were short of a fourth rider . |
| 12 | I took up the tin with the matches in it and lit the candles ; they burned yellowly and I knelt , clenching my fists and thinking . |
| 13 | I took up the axe . |
| 14 | It concluded ‘ that there would be little trouble in finding someone to take up the unassigned bonds when it is known that bonds in Sunningdale and other golf links have increased nearly 50% since their issue ’ . |
| 15 | He moves into a long attempt , which takes up the rest of the book , to revise the earlier ontology of Being and Nothingness into a new ontology of action and even of History , as if , after all , he is investigating the prospect of accrediting the latter with ontological status — a possibility which has always haunted his text in its insistent negation . |
| 16 | So that second verse is one which takes up the traditional Jewish prejudices and turns them upside down , one by one . |
| 17 | Sergio Pininfarina himself takes up the story behind this amazing concept car . |
| 18 | The player himself takes up the story . |
| 19 | He pointed out that schools which took up the offer would not know in advance how much the discount would save them . |
| 20 | It was the Press which took up the Andrew Morton book on Princess Diana and the state of her marriage . |
| 21 | It was the Press which took up the cause of the miners when British Coal wanted to sack 30,000 of them . |
| 22 | Those centres which took up the offer helped SCOTVEC plan the deployment of its resources more effectively , while at the same time benefiting from earlier candidate certification . |
| 23 | The 1970s and 80s saw the development of models which took up the thesis that the mass media were not passive or neutral channels but exerted active influence to the advantage of select social groups . |
| 24 | Vuk himself took up the task , and his first effort appeared in October 1814 . |
| 25 | Most bacteria come into the category either of Gram-positive , which take up the purple stain , or Gram-negative which do n't . |
| 26 | Similarly , the hero of The Prelude is taken from the ‘ educational processes ’ of the Lake District , Cambridge and so on , which take up the first half of the poem , and engages with society and history in the conflicts of the French Revolution ; the Revolution is not to be taken as a purely fortuitous occurrence , but the main event of the time , that which separates off the Modern Age from all that had gone before . |
| 27 | Feeny laughs , whispers , ‘ Cocorico ’ ; they whisper back and she takes up the thread where she left off back in the bathroom : |
| 28 | But Haslam points out that the competitor who takes up the new technology when the patents expire does not suffer from this halo effect . |
| 29 | G. Hare , D.S.C. , who takes up the story of the preparations : ‘ In mid April 1941 I was called to London for a secret verbal appointment and interviewed by Rear-Admiral Clement Moody , the Fifth Sea Lord ( he had been my Captain in ‘ Eagle ’ ) . |
| 30 | Dr. Peter Williamson , who takes up the post at the beginning of April , spends two days in the town and meets the Leukaemia Unit Fund committee on Wednesday evening . |