Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] take up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another critic who took up the moral cudgels against the ‘ spicy ’ jokes and suggestive songs described how ‘ this kind of garbage is part and parcel of the repertoire of nearly every music hall in the kingdom … it puts decency and clean-living at a discount , and it glorifies immorality all round ’ . |
| 2 | It was Dr. Joseph Thackeray , the newly appointed physician to the infirmary who took up the burden . |
| 3 | Whether nationalization improves the efficiency of resource allocation , or whether we would do better to privatize existing public corporations , is an issue we take up the next chapter . |
| 4 | At this point we take up the experience of those who returned to their former jobs . |
| 5 | The following day we took up the problem again . |
| 6 | Sometimes it appeared that the police and the media were christening subsequent sex beasts as variants of The Fox , while , much more rarely , on other occasions it seemed to be the offender who took up the mantle . |
| 7 | Despite the opposition of his father he took up the study of medicine , first at Leipzig University and then in Vienna , where his funds ran out , forcing him to take employment for a time with the Governor of Transylvania until he had accumulated sufficient money to continue his studies . |
| 8 | In their progress they took up the whole width of the footpath . |
| 9 | It was the Press which took up the Andrew Morton book on Princess Diana and the state of her marriage . |
| 10 | It was the Press which took up the cause of the miners when British Coal wanted to sack 30,000 of them . |
| 11 | But Haslam points out that the competitor who takes up the new technology when the patents expire does not suffer from this halo effect . |
| 12 | The couple who took up the challenge have no grandchildren of their own . |
| 13 | 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 … ’ |
| 14 | The player himself takes up the story . |
| 15 | At the time we took up the , the secretary took took up the matter and I got him to send us er a copy of the reply , and it , it appears that , as you know it 's all voluntary and , and it relies charity for individuals , but I noticed , I only got this from Ron yesterday , paragraph here says , where the community demonstrates it 's active support for such adventure , then there is an increase likelihood of the establish of a service , although it has to be said that there already exists a waiting list of communities eager to re receive P D S A support . |
| 16 | It is time we took up the second of my headings , language as screen . |