Example sentences of "[pron] take up [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , I took up running in order to take more exercise in a shorter time . |
| 2 | It 's more comfortable if Herta lies on her side and I take up position behind her . |
| 3 | It is not difficult to think of other examples — the man who takes up golf to be seen with the ‘ right sort of people ’ the competitor more interested in the prize than the process of winning it ; the senior common-room member who can not converse without showing off . |
| 4 | In The Games , he was cast as British milkman Harry Hayes , who takes up athletics for a joke , is spotted by a former champion runner and ends up in an Olympic Marathon . |
| 5 | She plays Isobel Hetherington — a young woman with three daughters — who takes up residence in a seaside resort during the hot summer of 1887 . |
| 6 | Will you take up residence in France ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Are you taking up boxing as a hobby ? ’ |
| 8 | She took up tennis after finding that she was simply in the way if she appeared on the film set . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There seem to have been a lot of people who took up painting for a while and then dropped it : often enough , like the young Roger Vadim , to become a cineaste or a designer in the lively world of small theatres ( which are also extensively documented in the Pavillon des Arts . ) |
| 11 | He sent for his wife and their three children , who took up residence with him in the old palace . |
| 12 | Does my hon. Friend accept , however , that among pensioners , particularly those who took up residence in sheltered accommodation after 1988 , there is a real fear of injustice , in that some of them have to pay the full licence and some of them do not ? |
| 13 | We have two women Equal Opportunities Officers who took up post in early September . |
| 14 | I sometimes did little unexpected kid things out of my tenderness for her , and was always glad to be the one to take up tea for her if she was unwell , and so on , or to help her with the housework when she was servantless . |
| 15 | It is not very clever to spray and fight off enemies from the front door , while letting them take up residence outside a wide open back door . |
| 16 | They took up position between the harpoons and the fleeing whales . |
| 17 | He lays down the only terms on which it is possible for him to take up residence with his people . |
| 18 | As Keith explained , it was not any easier for him to take up employment with the RAF because his father had been a career forces man . |
| 19 | It was nearly time for her to take up position at Ludgate Circus , but first she had to get Ruby to leave . |
| 20 | The one is a very limited exercise — the other will influence their whole lives now and later on , whether they take up painting as a profession , business organisation or tea planting in Ceylon ! |
| 21 | The most immediate is that they take up oxygen from water to support their respiration and produce carbon dioxide . |
| 22 | They take up residence in some numbers in marsh and swampland . |
| 23 | He took up rowing in a wherry , and finally worked up to a single shell . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | From Norfolk Louis-Napoleon travelled to Philadelphia and then New York , where he took up residence in the Washington Hotel , Broadway . |
| 26 | Interned when the government declared martial law in December 1981 , but released 11 months later , he took up employment at the shipyard in the spring of 1983 and in October of that year was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And one of the main reasons why Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke chose Milton Keynes as the first police station to visit since he took up post in April . |
| 29 | A year after he took up office at the College , Moynihan began a group portrait of the staff of the Painting School . |
| 30 | His adoption led to his taking up work with the deaf . |