Example sentences of "take up the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tim takes up the story thus far . |
| 2 | To lift the patient off the bed onto a chair or commode , one carer takes up the position already described , while the other stands behind the patient on the bed and guides the patient 's seat up and round onto the chair . |
| 3 | If mum takes up the game again , then why not her children in future years ? |
| 4 | But he says it 's never lost him a night 's sleep , and he 'd happily take up the rope again if called . |
| 5 | But he says it 's never lost him a night 's sleep , and he 'd happily take up the rope again if called . |
| 6 | They may therefore take up the offer more speedily than they otherwise would , or be more reluctant to leave their existing job to search for another job . |
| 7 | I shall take up the matter more fully later in my remarks . |
| 8 | If there 's any subsidence later on , this make of liner will take up the strain better than Butyl , claims the makers . |
| 9 | We need not take up the argument here : let us , instead , turn to the more interesting subject of the explanations offered by the Ndembu themselves for certain key symbolic motifs . |
| 10 | Their apparatus was primitive and they could not control the reaction , so it was another two years before a different team took up the work again . |
| 11 | The following day we took up the problem again . |
| 12 | Oldham took up the attack again and Barlow , who had a fine match at left-back , totally containing Rocastle , floated in a deep cross beyond Winterburn . |
| 13 | As the orchestra took up the refrain once more , she came to take her mother 's hand at centre stage , and sang as if it was the most natural thing in the world . |
| 14 | The Morning Post joined in when the First Sea Lord , Sir Francis Bridgeman , resigned in 1912 and Bonar Law took up the issue too , suggesting that Bridgeman had been " brutally ill-used " by Churchill . |
| 15 | The couple took up the hobby almost five years ago and since then have completed around 50 tapestries of various sizes , some of which decorate their home . |
| 16 | Kirov took up the conversation again . |
| 17 | The British cabinet took up the subject again in Washington in September 1951 . |
| 18 | Using their favoured analogy in which the complexities of a nation-state were reduced to the simplicities of a corner shop balance sheet , the newly appointed boss of the Institute took up the cudgels again in February 1990 . |
| 19 | Five years later he took up the project again under the new title of Church Dogmatics . |
| 20 | But on one mysterious occasion the sado-manager waived the rules and waved us in : we could n't understand this behaviour at all , but took up the offer nevertheless , putting it down to grown-up inconsistency . |
| 21 | Ruefully , Grimm took up the drumstick again and gnawed . |
| 22 | Jay , left , of Ashwood Drive , Stokesley , took up the game just three years ago after his family moved back to England from New Zealand . |
| 23 | He took up the game about 30 years ago . |
| 24 | He took up the links again between Moses and the killing of the primal father at the end of his life . |
| 25 | The 2 friends took up the tandem around 5 months ago especially for the race . |
| 26 | For the diminutive Andy — people often wonder how he hauls around the pro bags that stand as high as him — the triumphs he has shared with Nick Faldo are something of a fulfilment of his own ambition of winning the titles himself : he started as a tournament professional with dreams of a major championship before realizing he would not make the grade as a pro , and so took up the bag instead of the club . |
| 27 | Dabbling with such challenging pastimes as mountaineering and long distance canoeing , Graham was in his early 50s when he took up the quadriathlon just as the sport was getting off the ground . |
| 28 | Kitty took up the challenge again . |
| 29 | ’ And as he and Kraal continued to talk old Minch quietly dropped down to her shelter and took up the food there , listening to their few memories of the world outside . |
| 30 | ‘ Good , ’ said Ben , moving back and taking up the oars again . |