Example sentences of "up the post " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rule also affected Henry Cotton , who took up the post at Royal Waterloo , Belgium , in 1933 and thus missed two Ryder Cup matches when he was at the peak of his powers . |
| 2 | GORDON TAYLOR , the players ' union secretary , yesterday confirmed that he is still prepared to take up the post of chief executive of the Football League -despite a cold-shoulder from the League 's management committee and the reluctance of the Professional Footballers ' Association to release him . |
| 3 | Sadly , Brian Rowe 's personal circumstances have now changed and he is not able to take up the post . |
| 4 | However , he decided instead to take up the post he had been offered of Captain and Governor of the Isle of Wight . |
| 5 | In Washington , the administration has now let it be known that it will work for the softening of the amendment 's consequences , provided — and forgetting Kosovo for the moment — that Stipe Mesic , a Croat , is no longer obstructed by the Serbs from taking up the post of chairman ( for one year ) of Yugoslavia 's eight-member presidency . |
| 6 | As you improve , start to bring the action into your everyday life , such as when bringing the milk out from the fridge or when picking up the post each morning . |
| 7 | Paul Owen has was appointed Director of the BCU and took up the post on February 17th . |
| 8 | Dr Mann took up the post of organist and choir master at Beverley at a time when the music at the Minster was at a fairly low ebb . |
| 9 | Moreover , within just eleven years he had been elevated to the honorific status of ‘ Dom ’ and sent to the abbey of Hautvillers to take up the post of cellarmaster , a position second only to that of abbot . |
| 10 | Joan accordingly took up the post of companion to the lady Anne and thereafter had no great difficulty in adjusting to a new and privileged life-style . |
| 11 | Horsley cheerfully admitted when he took up the post of Chair that he knew nothing about newspapers . |
| 12 | Ouseley , who took up the post last week , was Britain 's first black local authority chief executive , appointed in Lambeth three years ago . |
| 13 | In his ten years with Intelligence he rose to the rank of colonel , but his superiors ' prejudice against his British ancestry and education became unbearable and he resigned to take up the post offered to him with UNACO . |
| 14 | Within months of Ray McSharry leaving Irish politics and taking up the post of E.C . |
| 15 | When he first took up the post in September 1943 one of his students was the fourteen-year-old Robert Hunt , then doing a junior art scholarship and familiarly known as Bobby . |
| 16 | To this end he reintroduced a school of industrial design , sacked the Professor of Painting , Gilbert Spencer , who had advised students not to visit the 1945–6 Picasso and Matisse exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum , appointed the former fashion editor of Vogue , Madge Garland , as the first ever Professor of Fashion and invited Allan Walton , who died before he could take up the post , to head the textile department . |
| 17 | She stooped and picked up the post . |
| 18 | In 1850 he resigned his curatorship to take up the post of mineral surveyor for New South Wales , an appointment that provoked the hostility of W. B. Clarke [ q.v . ] . |
| 19 | Taking up the post in February 1942 , he held it until defeated in an election in 1951 . |
| 20 | Having trained as a photo-process engraver , he took up the post of demonstrator in a firm in Gothenburg , Sweden , in 1907 . |
| 21 | However , in 1855 he took up the post of professor of drawing at King 's College , London , which he combined with book illustration . |
| 22 | , William ( 1730–1803 ) , landscape designer and gardener , whose early life is obscure , took up the post of head gardener to Sir Nathaniel Curzon at Kedleston , Derbyshire , on 8 September 1756 . |
| 23 | In 1873 he returned to England to take up the post of electrician to the Highton Battery Company , and in 1877 set up the first experimental overhead telephone line in England , only two years after the invention of the telephone in the United States by Alexander Graham Bell [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | Worsley was reappointed surgeon-general to the army in Ireland in 1647 , but seems not to have taken up the post . |
| 25 | Returning to England , he took up the post of sub-warden of Toynbee Hall , the universities ' settlement in the East End of London , 1920–9 , serving also as a co-opted member of the London County Council education committee , 1925–31 . |
| 26 | A few minutes after eight , as they watched , a black flag moved slowly up the post . |
| 27 | In January 1869 , on the strength of his published work and Ritschl 's glowing reference , he was offered the chair despite his youth and lack of the usually mandatory doctorate and " habilitation " ; he took up the post in April 1869 . |
| 28 | Your salary on taking up the post will be . |
| 29 | Your salary on taking up the post will be . |
| 30 | A Computing Support Officer has been appointed , and is expected to take up the post on 1st July . |