Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] to take up the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But though the blood was pounding in her head and her vision was blurred she managed to take up the envelope again and lie down with it on her bed .
2 One night , in the privacy of their own bedroom , he decided to take up the matter again with Elizabeth .
3 When I was about eleven , he must have been about fourteen or fifteen , and he decided to take up the concert flute — so he suggested that instead of us staying on tin whistles , we should all take up different instruments .
4 He chose to take up the issue precisely because he thought it could not possibly lead to war , in that neither the Tsar , nor the Sultan in whose Empire Jerusalem was , would see the issue as of such importance .
5 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 .
6 Each one of them will know what it means to take up the challenge year after year of a yet higher fund raising target . ’
7 If your Association has decided that it wishes to take up the offer of accommodation at South Gyle the Council needs to know :
8 A quarter of an hour later , he begins to take up the strings of eggs , twining them around his hind legs .
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