Example sentences of "she take up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeny laughs , whispers , ‘ Cocorico ’ ; they whisper back and she takes up the thread where she left off back in the bathroom : |
| 2 | Why wo n't she take up the offer of just a fortnight 's short-stay ? |
| 3 | Mona was quiet , hardworking and extremely stubborn , anxious to be agreeable ; but once she took up a position — or got caught in one — she was obstinately immovable and this had often brought her into conflict with Moran . |
| 4 | She then went to Victoria Station and bought a return ticket to Epsom , where she took up a position in the pressing crowd on the inside rails at Tattenham Corner , a few yards before the runners reach the straight . |
| 5 | Then she took up a position standing right at the back . |
| 6 | Soon afterwards she took up a position at the hospital . |
| 7 | Still riding the crest of that foaming wave , she took up a microphone one day and sang an old classic , which caught the ear of a sharp record producer who would very soon launch her as a pop star . |
| 8 | She has been active in local politics since 1985 when she took up a seat on Cleveland county council for Victoria ward , Thornaby . |
| 9 | She took up the pastime after impressing friends and family when she made an engagement cake for her brother-in-law . |
| 10 | She took up the handles of the hand-cart and began to push it , and now there was room only for the child to walk by the side of it . |
| 11 | She took up the basin , spilling muddy water on the floor . |
| 12 | Then she took up the cloth , worked at the edge a moment and tore it neatly along the weave . |
| 13 | She took up the piano and , according to her headmistress Ruth Rudge , ‘ made phenomenal progress for someone who started late ’ ; and although she never made it into any of the school teams , she loved tennis . |
| 14 | After she completed her degree course , they moved to the United States , where she took up an appointment as an instructor in English at Smith College . |
| 15 | As to what would have happened without the event of the accident in her A level year by way of results , I regret I have to find as a fact that she would not in the year of her accident , have achieved the grades necessary for her to take up a place at Norwich City College . |