Example sentences of "[noun sg] took up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lawyer took up the pen first , followed by Old Looking Glass , Old Joseph , Old James and Timothy , until fifty-eight Nez Perce chiefs were recorded . |
| 2 | A tack room and hay loft took up the north side ; on the south side were grooms ' and coachman 's quarters . |
| 3 | Shetland Bird Club took up the issue and have appealed to the government to curb the fishery , even presenting a petition to the Prime Minister . |
| 4 | The bruiser took up the carpet-bag , at which point every ear caught the sounds of slow , measured footsteps and a man 's voice . |
| 5 | The Morning Post joined in when the First Sea Lord , Sir Francis Bridgeman , resigned in 1912 and Bonar Law took up the issue too , suggesting that Bridgeman had been " brutally ill-used " by Churchill . |
| 6 | The next day the front page of the Sun took up the theme with enthusiasm : PORN LUST OF THE FOX ( see Figure 4.1 ) . |
| 7 | Some of these legendary figures may be dead , so , for instance , the Yorkshire Ripper took up a mantle laid down by the original Ripper in the last century . |
| 8 | Whatever Jenny was involved in at any given moment took up the whole of her . |
| 9 | 3–11–1898 The Moderator read the following extract minute of Presbytery ; " The presbytery took up the report of the committee on union with the United Presbyterian Church as sent down by last General Assembly , and as Instructed by the Assembly , agreed to transmit the said report to the Kirk Session within their bounds for their information . " |
| 10 | He subsequently served as Chief Royal Engineer of 1st Airborne Division in Normandy , and after the Second World War took up a string of staff appointments . |
| 11 | The strong Auckland group within the team took up a position of influence . |
| 12 | The team took up the gauntlet thrown down by the Health and Safety Executive and came up with a thorough checklist for the city 's 7 homes . |
| 13 | Their apparatus was primitive and they could not control the reaction , so it was another two years before a different team took up the work again . |
| 14 | Captain Logan fulfilled Wahlitits ' omen of death and then fell himself as Wahlitits ' wife took up the warrior 's rifle . |
| 15 | The British cabinet took up the subject again in Washington in September 1951 . |
| 16 | Soon afterwards his father took up a post as superintendent with the Electric Telegraph Company in London . |
| 17 | Mrs Phillipa Grove took up the lease in 1782 and on her death her daughter , Miss Phillipa Grove renewed the tenancy and payed £44. 10s a year rent to Lord Pembroke . |
| 18 | There were several work-benches holding tools and various pieces of covered work , while shelving , tall cupboards and a low , flat sink took up the rest of the wall space . |
| 19 | Malone absorbed the pressure and against the run of play took up a position inside their opponents 22 . |
| 20 | Elland Road , home of England 's football champions Leeds United , was the stage for the Springboks ' third game of their four-match tour , and the North Division took up the gauntlet . |
| 21 | The biggest concern of the executioner , a man named Billington , was that the now quivering bulk of a fifteen stone woman would snap her head off as the rope took up the slack on the trip through the trapdoor . |
| 22 | As the orchestra took up the refrain once more , she came to take her mother 's hand at centre stage , and sang as if it was the most natural thing in the world . |
| 23 | The centre took up the case and now we have got the cheque . |
| 24 | If the Federation took up a case , it often meant that the worker in question was dismissed on some pretext , accused of robbery for example . |
| 25 | The narrator took up a position to one side of the loudspeaker , and the listeners were challenged to guess which was which as alternate lines were delivered . |
| 26 | The daily national press took up the cause of sport with a vengeance . |
| 27 | And then , after a time , we er had the er electricity took up the yard and into the shop and then we was able to buy a little machine you know what I mean and it went from there . |
| 28 | The couple took up the hobby almost five years ago and since then have completed around 50 tapestries of various sizes , some of which decorate their home . |
| 29 | More probably he had not yet composed much beyond the opening of the movement ; accordingly , after writing in these first few bars , he left space for the remainder of the movement to be inserted once it was finished , and another copyist took up the task of fair-copying subsequent movements which Purcell had already drafted . |
| 30 | If this layer of new material were put down each summer free from mechanical stresses the beam or branch would droop until the new material took up the strain and we should have a tree like a weeping willow . |