Example sentences of "[Wh pn] take up [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not difficult to think of other examples — the man who takes up golf to be seen with the ‘ right sort of people ’ the competitor more interested in the prize than the process of winning it ; the senior common-room member who can not converse without showing off . |
| 2 | In The Games , he was cast as British milkman Harry Hayes , who takes up athletics for a joke , is spotted by a former champion runner and ends up in an Olympic Marathon . |
| 3 | She plays Isobel Hetherington — a young woman with three daughters — who takes up residence in a seaside resort during the hot summer of 1887 . |
| 4 | There seem to have been a lot of people who took up painting for a while and then dropped it : often enough , like the young Roger Vadim , to become a cineaste or a designer in the lively world of small theatres ( which are also extensively documented in the Pavillon des Arts . ) |
| 5 | He sent for his wife and their three children , who took up residence with him in the old palace . |
| 6 | Does my hon. Friend accept , however , that among pensioners , particularly those who took up residence in sheltered accommodation after 1988 , there is a real fear of injustice , in that some of them have to pay the full licence and some of them do not ? |
| 7 | We have two women Equal Opportunities Officers who took up post in early September . |