Example sentences of "[pers pn] took 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 | She took up tennis after finding that she was simply in the way if she appeared on the film set . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Naturally she took up residence , and by the time Nigel came back she was well established . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Then might n't it help keep your mind off things if you took up war work ? |
| 15 | We took up painting after we found out . |
| 16 | Instead they took up battle positions , said Colonel Marc Martens of US Central Command . |
| 17 | She heard the numbers falling off and the cries of ‘ Try over-r-r-rl ’ and ‘ Edawick ! ’ as they took up station , one by one . |
| 18 | They took up position between the harpoons and the fleeing whales . |
| 19 | When he returned he took up journalism . |
| 20 | However , while reading for the bar , his health broke down and , following a period of recuperation in Italy and without formal art training , he took up painting and an art patron , Sir Coutts Lindsay , provided him with a studio in London . |
| 21 | It 's got worse since he took up golf again . |
| 22 | In the early days of aviation he made designs for aeroplanes and , later in life , he took up golf and planned houses for himself and his friends in Berkshire . |
| 23 | In less than three months he , too , had moved — to a cottage just outside the village , where he took up gardening and fishing with great energy and enthusiasm . |
| 24 | After he took up art collecting as a hobby in the late 1870s , Mr Johnson devoted much of his time and fortune amassing one of the country 's finest collections of European Old Master and late nineteenth-century paintings . |
| 25 | He took up rowing in a wherry , and finally worked up to a single shell . |
| 26 | He took up archery just eight years ago and in that time has become a national instructor , teaching people of all ages , as well as reaching the championships . |
| 27 | From Norfolk Louis-Napoleon travelled to Philadelphia and then New York , where he took up residence in the Washington Hotel , Broadway . |
| 28 | Panofsky , who was Professor of art history at Hamburg University from 1926 to 1931 , was one of the many German intellectuals that were lost to Germany when he took up residence at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study in 1935 , having been forced to leave in 1933 . |
| 29 | You have n't talked to him after he took up residence there ? ’ |
| 30 | The plaintiff , B , entered into an agreement with Mirror Group Newspapers on 3 June 1988 that if he took up employment with Pergamon Media Trust , he would receive from MGN a sum of money in certain circumstances . |