Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In less than three months he , too , had moved — to a cottage just outside the village , where he took up gardening and fishing with great energy and enthusiasm . |
| 2 | From Norfolk Louis-Napoleon travelled to Philadelphia and then New York , where he took up residence in the Washington Hotel , Broadway . |
| 3 | Mutely he blessed her for the information and , after quickly slaking his appetite , he was drawn — as if he had no will of his own — to the pothouse , where he picked up Joanna , went out with her into the fields , and made love with a sweating savagery which seemed to satisfy even her and delivered him of a madness which had gathered like an abscess . |
| 4 | The plaintiff , B , entered into an agreement with Mirror Group Newspapers on 3 June 1988 that if he took up employment with Pergamon Media Trust , he would receive from MGN a sum of money in certain circumstances . |
| 5 | it 's cos he went up mum 's the other day and they 've all got it but I do n't like |
| 6 | But it pissed me off no end when he finally decided to change over because he shut up shop while he did it , leaving me with no Saturday job and no money . |
| 7 | It 's got worse since he took up golf again . |
| 8 | And one of the main reasons why Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke chose Milton Keynes as the first police station to visit since he took up post in April . |
| 9 | After he took up art collecting as a hobby in the late 1870s , Mr Johnson devoted much of his time and fortune amassing one of the country 's finest collections of European Old Master and late nineteenth-century paintings . |
| 10 | You have n't talked to him after he took up residence there ? ’ |
| 11 | A year after he took up office at the College , Moynihan began a group portrait of the staff of the Painting School . |
| 12 | After he gave up Marxism , and was out there all on his mental own , as it were , without fear of hell or counter-revolutionary thought , it went to his head . |
| 13 | One of them was his habitual slowness , especially in handling and totting up cash ; for , before he took up duties in the foreign exchange department of Lloyds in the semi-basement room at the branch at 20 King William Street ( no wonder that the eyes and back , at the end of the day , turned ‘ upward ’ from the desk ) , he worked for a period behind the counter . |
| 14 | ‘ The day before he picked up Charlie . ’ |
| 15 | I had to laugh when he rung up Anita from home , he says hello gorgeous it 's me ! |
| 16 | Six minutes later Philip Jennings doubled the lead when he doubled up Scott 's through ball . |
| 17 | He opened his lips , struggling to put off the pride and bitterness that held him mute ; but the slight rustle of the tapestry at the door spoke first , and eloquently , and when he looked up David was gone , leaving still silent on the air between them the name that was not to be spoken . |
| 18 | The thought of his wife jarred him guiltily out of his fantasy and when he glanced up Karen was smiling at him . |
| 19 | Panofsky , who was Professor of art history at Hamburg University from 1926 to 1931 , was one of the many German intellectuals that were lost to Germany when he took up residence at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study in 1935 , having been forced to leave in 1933 . |
| 20 | But the mood changed abruptly to unalloyed delight during President Menem 's speech when he took up Mr Naveiro 's challenge and made a promise that the book paper import duties would not after all be raised . |
| 21 | When he hung up Zen handed him the letter |
| 22 | When he set up Channel 4 , he was given a mandate to have a very significant chunk as education , which was n't his background . |
| 23 | The deeply unpopular Somerset was overthrown in October , and power passed to those who had opposed the war ; his successor , John Dudley , earl of Warwick , was only recognizing the inevitable when he gave up Boulogne at the same time as peace was made with Scotland in March 1550 , when the last stronghold held by the English , Lauder , capitulated . |
| 24 | I saw this piece some time ago by Richard Burton in which he was talking about what happened to him when he gave up booze . |
| 25 | Teague helped form what must have been the quietest back row in the history of the game when he joined up Dean Richards and Winterbottom in the 1991 Grand Slam side . |
| 26 | Hawkbit was the last to return and as he came up Hazel set off at once . |
| 27 | Apart from Gooch , seamer Prabhakar also removed Alec Stewart and Michael Atherton as he followed up India 's first innings 591 by taking three for eight in 22 balls . |
| 28 | Chatfield 's ball-handling and kicking skills saw Rovers race to an 11-0 lead in the opening 25 minutes as he set up tries for Aussie centre David Liddiard and second rower Andy Thompson . |
| 29 | For once the Lovejoy actor 's old-fashioned charm deserted him as he plucked up courage to pass on some advice on her marriage lines . |