Example sentences of "[adj] took up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost 2,000 took up the invitation during a two-day open house and were taken on a guided tour route which stretched over a mile through the £1.85 billion development . |
| 2 | says the Marquis ' ‘ They were not convinced , but the Japanese took up the idea a few years ago and they are now industry leaders . ’ |
| 3 | Mrs Bowden 's brother is Nigel Watts , who in 1984 took up the campaign against the insurance company , which had lain dormant since 1978 . |
| 4 | Gennady Gerasimov , Foreign Ministry spokesman until November 1990 [ see p. 37864 ] , on March 11 took up the post of Soviet ambassador to Portugal . |
| 5 | She checked herself so as not to rush and then advanced over-slowly , first took up the bottle of rum , poured a glass , then picked up a guinea , seemed , he thought ( and smiled ) to test it , pocketed it , brought him the rum . |
| 6 | When he first took up the post in September 1943 one of his students was the fourteen-year-old Robert Hunt , then doing a junior art scholarship and familiarly known as Bobby . |
| 7 | Latest figures show that during the first two months of this year more than 14,000 took up the Company 's invitation to find out more about nuclear power by visiting Sellafield . |
| 8 | People who were doing nothing in particular took up the cry and chanted it down the block , like priests in some strange pagan mass : |
| 9 | Great Big took up the tale . |
| 10 | When special buses provided by the universities arrived to take them back to the campuses , most took up the offer . |