Example sentences of "[pron] took up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simply the sense of physical disgust which filled me whenever I took up a brush and dipped it in paint . |
| 2 | Every room in the house contained some form of Bible and I took up a large ancient looking one and opened it as if it had been a door into a cave . |
| 3 | ‘ So I took up a hold on 210 overhead the ditched pilot using Rate 1s as crosswind and base legs . |
| 4 | ‘ I took up a new hold at 500 feet over the pilot and was pleased to see the dinghy on the water , fully inflated , between the helicopter and the pilot — and upwind of him ! |
| 5 | I arrived at the shooting school well before the start , wearing a mackintosh , and with my umbrella up , I took up a position to watch . |
| 6 | Here I took up a position with the grand title of ‘ Consultant ’ . |
| 7 | The tide had n't covered the pebbles yet , so I took up a handful and lobbed them at the bottle . |
| 8 | I took up a lot of my daffs and started , erm erm I never take them up every year |
| 9 | At first I played the bodhran drum [ he pronounced it ‘ bowran ’ ] and then I took up the guitar . |
| 10 | 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 … ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I took up the cups of coffee , five cups , and they give me only four straws , not five , ’ he explained carefully . |
| 14 | Then I took up the painting and carried it back here and I signed it . ’ |
| 15 | Then I took up the double bass and organ for good measure . |
| 16 | I got on well , and at the age of seven , I took up the violin . |
| 17 | ‘ This was where I took up the running , ’ Robert said . |
| 18 | I took up the tin-whistle in earnest |
| 19 | ‘ I took up the sport six years ago when my local team , the Darlington Dawdlers , were short of a fourth rider . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I took up the axe . |
| 22 | He pointed out that schools which took up the offer would not know in advance how much the discount would save them . |
| 23 | It was the Press which took up the Andrew Morton book on Princess Diana and the state of her marriage . |
| 24 | It was the Press which took up the cause of the miners when British Coal wanted to sack 30,000 of them . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Well at that particular time I was already on the council , I was doing family planning which took up an awful lot of my time . |
| 28 | Vuk himself took up the task , and his first effort appeared in October 1814 . |
| 29 | Mona was quiet , hardworking and extremely stubborn , anxious to be agreeable ; but once she took up a position — or got caught in one — she was obstinately immovable and this had often brought her into conflict with Moran . |
| 30 | She then went to Victoria Station and bought a return ticket to Epsom , where she took up a position in the pressing crowd on the inside rails at Tattenham Corner , a few yards before the runners reach the straight . |