Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] take up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shoal has taken up residence in one particular area of the canal and are congregating in a 6ft deep hole a yard from the far bank reed bed at Plex Lane . |
| 2 | The first group had taken up position in all the key intersections so that they could control anyone who attempted to pass . |
| 3 | 30–4 " The court met to take up consideration of Archibald Currie 's case . |
| 4 | A huge illuminated whale has taken up residence just off Piccadilly — ’ Moby Dick ’ is in town . |
| 5 | After the service was over , they broke their fast in the small whitewashed refectory before approaching the Prior who confirmed his speculation of the previous evening that the Lord Bruce and his entourage had taken up residence in the port of Leith . |
| 6 | The energy and enthusiasm black youth have for certain sports and the disproportionately high number wanting to take up sport as a career provides at least the initial indication that they see in successful black sportsmen models for themselves . |
| 7 | The underwriter has to take up shares if called upon to do so , and for this has to be able to obtain the necessary funds . |
| 8 | Increased nuclear power production has taken up part of the electricity generation market lost by oil but the expansion of nuclear power has been far less significant than was planned for and predicted throughout the 1970s . |