Example sentences of "[noun prp] took up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only disturbance to its surface happened in the nineteenth century when the architect Gilbert Scott took up the edges in order to install a heating system . |
| 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | " 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The " Hallelujah lasses " had been used to raising their own voices in protest and employing some fairly dramatic methods to attract attention from the time Catherine Booth took up the cudgels on behalf of women in the early days of the movement . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | On 9 March , fully one month after the Paris telegram , the Comintern took up the slogan of " the United Front against Fascism " . |
| 19 | When the national selectors ' viewpoint was put to him , Watt took up the challenge : ‘ I was happy to give it a real bash . |
| 20 | Mike Cooke took up the sport two and a half years ago . |
| 21 | Because her sister still appeared to hesitate , Isabel took up the refrain . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Kirov took up the conversation again . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Herbert Read in his book Education through Art took up the categories of types put forward by Jung . |
| 30 | From here to the final stages it was all uphill , and with six furlongs left St Denis had had enough , so Achilles took up the running until the runners came into the straight . |