Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] took up " 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 | ‘ This was where I took up the running , ’ Robert said . |
| 3 | That 's why I took up PE , training . |
| 4 | I learnt a lot about her and saw her side of why she took up illnesses as a comfort . ’ |
| 5 | There is very little evidence for Elena 's scientific activity in the ten years after 1955 when she took up her ‘ studies ’ before becoming director of the Institute . |
| 6 | She has been active in local politics since 1985 when she took up a seat on Cleveland county council for Victoria ward , Thornaby . |
| 7 | What were you thinking of when you took up with Barton ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | P&O Containers brought her from Auckland to Tilbury , from where she took up her first challenge , the ‘ Round Europe ’ race last month . |
| 10 | It is also important to look at why you took up the job in the first instance , even if 20 years have elapsed in the meantime . |
| 11 | ‘ Why you took up with him on this unlikely enterprise . ’ |
| 12 | Knighton , Derbyshire-born and a professional for a year with Coventry City , was a teacher until 1984 when he took up property dealing . |
| 13 | One lord justice of appeal appointed in 1984 , Sir David Croom-Johnson , was seventy when he took up his post , the age at which mere mortals are deemed too doddery to be trusted on jury service . |
| 14 | Eisner shocked Disney when he took up an option in his contract to buy 5.4 million blue chip shares at bargain basement prices . |
| 15 | He was trained at Bradford Technical College and the Royal College of Art , and was employed as a textile designer in Bradford until 1911 , when he took up a post as inspector of arts and crafts in the Egyptian Ministry of Education in Cairo . |
| 16 | He stayed there until February last year when he took up his current position heading a three person unit within the Personnel department . |
| 17 | Mr McTear , a former 60-a-day smoker , is suing Imperial Tobacco for damages , claiming that the company failed to warn him of health hazards when he took up smoking in the mid 1960s . |
| 18 | And upon the way they round a leper , struggling in a quagmire , who cried out to them with a loud voice to help him for the love of God ; and when Rodrigo heard this , he alighted from his beast and helped him , and placed him upon the beast before him , and carried him with him in this manner to the inn where he took up his lodging that night . |
| 19 | Mr Phillips can neither sell his house in Cardiff , Glamorgan , nor find a suitable new one in Swansea , where he took up his post a few months ago . |
| 20 | After a short time working for his father he moved to a tool-making factory in Birmingham , where he took up bookmaking in a small way , by collecting bets on his motor bicycle . |