Example sentences of "he take up [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lays down the only terms on which it is possible for him to take up residence with his people . |
| 2 | As Keith explained , it was not any easier for him to take up employment with the RAF because his father had been a career forces man . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He took up rowing in a wherry , and finally worked up to a single shell . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | From Norfolk Louis-Napoleon travelled to Philadelphia and then New York , where he took up residence in the Washington Hotel , Broadway . |
| 7 | Interned when the government declared martial law in December 1981 , but released 11 months later , he took up employment at the shipyard in the spring of 1983 and in October of that year was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A year after he took up office at the College , Moynihan began a group portrait of the staff of the Painting School . |