Example sentences of "[pron] take up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I took up the cups of coffee , five cups , and they give me only four straws , not five , ’ he explained carefully . |
| 2 | I took up the tin-whistle in earnest |
| 3 | Then I took up the painting and carried it back here and I signed it . ’ |
| 4 | I was carried ignominiously between two colleagues back to the car and greeted my wife with the sheepish grin she had been dreading ever since I took up the sport . |
| 5 | ‘ I took up the sport six years ago when my local team , the Darlington Dawdlers , were short of a fourth rider . |
| 6 | At first I played the bodhran drum [ he pronounced it ‘ bowran ’ ] and then I took up the guitar . |
| 7 | ‘ This was where I took up the running , ’ Robert said . |
| 8 | I took up the axe . |
| 9 | I took up the tin with the matches in it and lit the candles ; they burned yellowly and I knelt , clenching my fists and thinking . |
| 10 | I got on well , and at the age of seven , I took up the violin . |
| 11 | 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 … ’ |
| 12 | I did n't offer an opinion on that since I did n't have any , so I took up the time admiring the surroundings . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Sergio Pininfarina himself takes up the story behind this amazing concept car . |
| 15 | The player himself takes up the story . |
| 16 | The 1970s and 80s saw the development of models which took up the thesis that the mass media were not passive or neutral channels but exerted active influence to the advantage of select social groups . |
| 17 | It was the Press which took up the Andrew Morton book on Princess Diana and the state of her marriage . |
| 18 | He pointed out that schools which took up the offer would not know in advance how much the discount would save them . |
| 19 | Those centres which took up the offer helped SCOTVEC plan the deployment of its resources more effectively , while at the same time benefiting from earlier candidate certification . |
| 20 | It was the Press which took up the cause of the miners when British Coal wanted to sack 30,000 of them . |
| 21 | Vuk himself took up the task , and his first effort appeared in October 1814 . |
| 22 | Feeny laughs , whispers , ‘ Cocorico ’ ; they whisper back and she takes up the thread where she left off back in the bathroom : |
| 23 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Why wo n't she take up the offer of just a fortnight 's short-stay ? |
| 26 | Why do n't you take up the offer ? |
| 27 | So , did you break your letter down into two parts … first , did you enquire whether there were any professional reasons which would prevent you taking up the appointment and , second , can I have the following information etc ? ’ |
| 28 | Our link up with adidas has certainly provided a boost to membership , with many of you taking up the option to join and receive a free headband or wristband for their trouble . |
| 29 | She took up the pastime after impressing friends and family when she made an engagement cake for her brother-in-law . |
| 30 | She took up the handles of the hand-cart and began to push it , and now there was room only for the child to walk by the side of it . |