Example sentences of "[pron] takes up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moves into a long attempt , which takes up the rest of the book , to revise the earlier ontology of Being and Nothingness into a new ontology of action and even of History , as if , after all , he is investigating the prospect of accrediting the latter with ontological status — a possibility which has always haunted his text in its insistent negation . |
| 2 | Sergio Pininfarina himself takes up the story behind this amazing concept car . |
| 3 | The player himself takes up the story . |
| 4 | Feeny laughs , whispers , ‘ Cocorico ’ ; they whisper back and she takes up the thread where she left off back in the bathroom : |
| 5 | G. Hare , D.S.C. , who takes up the story of the preparations : ‘ In mid April 1941 I was called to London for a secret verbal appointment and interviewed by Rear-Admiral Clement Moody , the Fifth Sea Lord ( he had been my Captain in ‘ Eagle ’ ) . |
| 6 | Dr. Peter Williamson , who takes up the post at the beginning of April , spends two days in the town and meets the Leukaemia Unit Fund committee on Wednesday evening . |
| 7 | Larkin 's poem complains in concert ; it takes up the question of what it is to be sexually debarred . |
| 8 | It takes up the concept of ‘ covenant ’ already familiar in the ancient world . |
| 9 | He takes up the story after the birth in Bethlehem with the arrival of the wise men from the east . |
| 10 | He takes up the story : |
| 11 | Invited to join the King , with his companions the Chancellor Colonel Sapt and his aide-de-camp Fritz von Tarlenheim , on the ruler 's last night of freedom before he takes up the burden of the Crown , Rassendyll is conveniently available to step in when the monarch collapses , drugged by wine presented by his jealous brother Black Michael . |
| 12 | Secrett has refused to comment on his plans until he takes up the post . |