Example sentences of "[pers pn] took 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 | She took up the pastime after impressing friends and family when she made an engagement cake for her brother-in-law . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She took up the basin , spilling muddy water on the floor . |
| 16 | Then she took up the cloth , worked at the edge a moment and tore it neatly along the weave . |
| 17 | She took up the piano and , according to her headmistress Ruth Rudge , ‘ made phenomenal progress for someone who started late ’ ; and although she never made it into any of the school teams , she loved tennis . |
| 18 | It is also important to look at why you took up the job in the first instance , even if 20 years have elapsed in the meantime . |
| 19 | The following day we took up the problem again . |
| 20 | We took up the coathanger as our symbol — one of the grim tools women used to induce their own abortions before the operation was legalized — and we vowed that no more women should die , become maimed or made permanently sterile as a result of trying to get an abortion . |
| 21 | Three girls came into the line of fire , each wearing a student nurse 's uniform , walking quickly , but gossiping as they went , and laughing , their heads constantly turning to whichever of them took up the conversation . |
| 22 | They took up the whole of the street and nothing could move until this sea of humanity had passed by . ’ |
| 23 | However , as time progressed they took up the argument of legislation requirement and professional competence as a form of self-defence and as a means of maintaining their professional standing not only in their own eyes , but in the eyes of other planners , and in the eyes of their fellow colleagues in Kirkwall . |
| 24 | I my money l last time and they took up the limit on my cash card . |
| 25 | He took up the poker and turned over a log carefully . |
| 26 | He took up the brass paper knife and with a turn of his wrist had the drawer open , his stay in prison had served some useful purpose . |
| 27 | Having lost the Conservative party leadership contest to John Major he took up the position of President of the Board of Trade after the last election … |
| 28 | Since he took up the position in 1987 , closures of geriatric hospitals , partnership with the private sector , nurse regradings , NHS trusts and a review of maternity and acute services , which will cut over 1,000 hospital beds and possibly lead to a closure of a number of hospitals , are among the controversies which have raged . |
| 29 | A member of the Warrington Road runners , he took up the sport six years ago . |
| 30 | He took up the money . |