Example sentences of "[noun prp] took up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward took up a position at the door-post . |
| 2 | Majella took up the fiddle , I got an accordion and Mary got a banjo . |
| 3 | Devon and Cornwall police last Friday took up the case of Pipe 's Her Honour , found to have been doped when flopping at Kempton in January . |
| 4 | She did not leave as Corbett took up the pewter spoon and began to eat . |
| 5 | It was on an earlier trip to Germany that Brenda took up the challenge to pass her bike test . |
| 6 | She paused for breath and Giles took up the tale . |
| 7 | ‘ Comes round wavin' his byelaws at us ’ her Cousin Jake took up the story . |
| 8 | Maggie took up the cloth and began to wipe a section of the counter . |
| 9 | Always lying handy as Coco Dancer led for most of the trip , Limeridge took up the running from Coco Dancer going to the last fence and at this stage was hotly pursued by the favourite Canute Express . |
| 10 | After Pannone took up the King 's Cross victims ' plight , London Regional Transport agreed to make ex-gratia payments without them having to prove negligence . |
| 11 | Oldham took up the attack again and Barlow , who had a fine match at left-back , totally containing Rocastle , floated in a deep cross beyond Winterburn . |
| 12 | Mr Robinson took up the case for a majority of the Castlereagh firemen who left the Fire Service because they were not prepared to uproot their families and move to Carryduff . |
| 13 | Robert took up a position on the boundary , fairly near to the maths master . |
| 14 | Sir Roy Griffiths took up the idea , under a different name , in 1988 in specifying that ‘ no person should be discharged without a clear package of care devised and without being the responsibility of a named care worker . ’ |
| 15 | " The Session find that there is no suitable person to undertake the duties of precentor , and that they are now in the same position as they were two years ago , when Mrs McIver took up the work . |
| 16 | When , in the Republican Party 's presidential primaries , Patrick Buchanan took up the endowment as a weapon to wield against George Bush , Mr Frohnmayer 's stay was over . |
| 17 | Rodriguez took up a command position in the old jailhouse . |
| 18 | Facing an uncertain future in Jamaica as a single mother supporting four children , ( her husband had just left her ) , Rita took up the invitation of a relative who had emigrated to Canada and came to try her luck . |
| 19 | On 9 March , fully one month after the Paris telegram , the Comintern took up the slogan of " the United Front against Fascism " . |
| 20 | When the national selectors ' viewpoint was put to him , Watt took up the challenge : ‘ I was happy to give it a real bash . |
| 21 | Mike Cooke took up the sport two and a half years ago . |
| 22 | Because her sister still appeared to hesitate , Isabel took up the refrain . |
| 23 | The writer Jean-Philippe Domecq took up the theme , maintaining that as many as 95% of contemporary works are no more than boring illustrations of even more boring theoretical points . |
| 24 | Blind Io took up the dice-box , which was a skull whose various orifices had been stoppered with rubies , and with several of his eyes on the Lady he rolled three fives . |
| 25 | At the start North Down man Ian Lyle shadowed Rowan but after two miles he lost contact and Albertville 's Paddy Branagh took up the pursuit , moving to within 30 metres of Rowan . |
| 26 | Kirov took up the conversation again . |
| 27 | Jim took up the slack on his own chain and four others , like the Casting-Master almost naked except for a blackened leather apron and tight-fitting skull cap , pulled and cursed the liquid iron on its descent to the earth . |
| 28 | Then , with Dawn keeping careful watch on Sandy 's breathing , Sophie took up a scalpel , and , after one long moment of hesitation , she made the first incision . |
| 29 | Fogarty was left to move further and further ahead as Joey Dunlop took up the challenge , then Robert Dunlop made up ground rapidly after being seventh at the end of lap one , and by the end of the second lap it was Joey ahead of Robert to initiate a battle which continued until the end of the race when Robert just squeezed ahead . |
| 30 | The use of polyethylene terephthalate on a commercial scale for bottles — by a process known by the clumsy name of injection stretch blow moulding — began in the USA in 1977 , and by 1979 , when ICI in Europe took up the development , American consumption had risen to 140 kta . |