Example sentences of "decide to take up [noun] " in BNC.

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1 After taking the Bar examination you may obtain employment in the legal department of a commercial firm under the aegis of an employed barrister as a ‘ commercial pupil , ’ and this will give you three months ' exemption from pupillage if you afterwards decide to take up practice at the Bar .
2 And you decided to take up floristry because you saw a course advertised in a magazine ? ’
3 William III 's one ambition was to topple Louis XIV of France and when James II went to Ireland to establish a following there , William decided to take up arms against him .
4 Huy had been more help to the Medjay than he realised ; but it was on his own account that he decided to take up Taheb 's invitation and visit her .
5 On the death of his father in 1853 he decided to take up medicine , and became a student at the London Hospital ( MRCS and LSA , 1856 ) , where he won many prizes .
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