Example sentences of "[noun prp] take up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David took up rowing at Portora and has won the Irish novice sculling and intermediate fours championships with BRC . |
| 2 | When his own son was old enough to go to school , Alexia took up painting , working her way away from representational landscapes into suggestive abstracts based on the British countryside . |
| 3 | In 1656 , Colonel John Washington left England to take up land in Virginia which later became Mount Vernon . |
| 4 | Gill took up volleyball at school and returned to the sport three years ago . |
| 5 | Gardiner took up rowing on the Isis and after last year 's event went on to play a valuable part in the Scottish senior men 's winning of the Home International Regatta . |
| 6 | " Keep an eye on our friends , " he muttered and while Brady took up position beside the door , Tom helped Patrick over to the bar . |
| 7 | When John Bryce took up horse riding earlier this year , he did n't realise where it would lead — all over the Borders as one of the stars of the Common Riding season . |
| 8 | Whereas PMMA remains hard and glassy , the hydroxyl groups in poly-HEMA take up water , converting it to a clear , flexible elastomeric gel . |
| 9 | In June 1937 Reagan took up residence in Hollywood and quickly established himself as a promising film actor , performing in eight films in his first eleven months and going on to make more than fifty films altogether . |
| 10 | After many years dispensing tea to supporters , Colin took up football with the club this season and , to boost his confidence , I appointed him skipper . |
| 11 | Derrick took up fitness training just 13 years ago after his jewellery importing business folded . |
| 12 | In one respect the local political structure in Clermont was relatively simple : although Theuderic mounted a raid on the Auvergne , and although Chramn took up residence in the district , for the most part the civitas was not of great interest to the Merovingian kings . |
| 13 | Later Marie Wassilieff too was to claim that she had persuaded Modigliani to take up painting again . |
| 14 | Charles took up watercolour painting nearly twenty years ago , and it has become one of his greatest pleasures . |
| 15 | Geoff took up Vet running at a serious level two or three years ago and has forged through the ranks until arriving at the top of the O50s this season . |
| 16 | One reason why women in London took up washing was that it tended to be a seasonal trade , the peaks in the availability of the work ( during the London season ) coinciding with the troughs in the male employment cycle in the gas and building trades . |
| 17 | Tony Meo and Eddie Sinclair take up centre stage during yesterday 's third-round matches in the grand prix snooker event being held at The Hexagon in Reading |
| 18 | Tony Meo and Eddie Sinclair take up centre stage during yesterday 's third-round matches in the grand prix snooker event being held at The Hexagon in Reading |
| 19 | Late in World War I , Hoppé took up fashion photography : when Vogue came to Britain , he was well placed to become one of its leading photographers . |
| 20 | With the sort of guitar riff we have n't heard much since George Harrison took up yoga , Weller proved the more banal Style Council meanderings are not to be his epitaph . |
| 21 | Flush with corvine visiting cards , Rolfe took up residence in Christchurch , before the fraudulent offer he made for his hosts ' house marked the end of his credit and credibility in Hampshire . |
| 22 | He had n't said he was going away and renting his house , which was odd because they 'd been chatting in the village not two days before he 'd disappeared and Leo taken up residence . |