Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] take up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I take up a book and try to read . |
| 2 | They were n't able to give him this so he took up a reciprocal heading and dropped down to 2,000 ‘ ft ‘ and eventually found Humberside — all the time trying to figure out what had gone wrong . |
| 3 | Simply the sense of physical disgust which filled me whenever I took up a brush and dipped it in paint . |
| 4 | A year or two later he took up a consultancy somewhere in the Home Counties . |
| 5 | Here I took up a position with the grand title of ‘ Consultant ’ . |
| 6 | Minitel is now an established part of French life , largely because the Government bankrolled its implementation so much that almost everyone took up a machine . |
| 7 | Then she took up a position standing right at the back . |
| 8 | Body language is with us night and day but something else which takes up a fair amount of time in our lives is travel . |
| 9 | She has been active in local politics since 1985 when she took up a seat on Cleveland county council for Victoria ward , Thornaby . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Instead he took up a lucrative coaching post with the Botswana Youth team . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Eisner shocked Disney when he took up an option in his contract to buy 5.4 million blue chip shares at bargain basement prices . |
| 14 | Soon afterwards she took up a position at the hospital . |