Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] took up " in BNC.
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| 1 | After retirement she took up many interests including cookery to a very high standard . |
| 2 | The following day we took up the problem again . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In their progress they took up the whole width of the footpath . |
| 5 | They were few in number , but attracted an attention out of all proportion to the space they took up in the exhibition . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 … ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ You know I really think it 's about time I took up smoking again , gentlemen . ’ |
| 12 | 'When she took up with Suleiman. ’ 'She was always tagging along with someone . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is time we took up the second of my headings , language as screen . |
| 15 | This time they took up Bright 's original suggestion and spliced the cable in mid-ocean on July 29 1858 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |