Example sentences of "take up [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Carlos Salinas de Gortari , responding to increasing domestic and international pressure , was reportedly instrumental in compelling Ramon Aguirre Velázquez , a PRI hardliner who had officially won 55 per cent of the vote in Guanajuato , to make the unprecedented announcement on Aug. 29 that he would not take up office as state governor . |
| 2 | We shall take up residence in autumn , not later , for I am to have another child close to Christmas , I believe . |
| 3 | Gill took up volleyball at school and returned to the sport three years ago . |
| 4 | took up gadgetry with naie enthusiasm |
| 5 | Instead , I took up running in order to take more exercise in a shorter time . |
| 6 | I understand I 'm to take up residence at Number One , The Lime tree . ’ |
| 7 | You will not be permitted to take up employment in order to help support yourself . |
| 8 | The most immediate is that they take up oxygen from water to support their respiration and produce carbon dioxide . |
| 9 | As well as entering professional art practice , students from the course take up work in education , publishing , arts administration , community arts , entertainment , the media , and business , and placements can be arranged in these areas . |