Example sentences of "take up [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten-year-old Opal ( Gaby Hoffmann ) and 15-year-old Erica ( Samantha Mathis ) simmer with resentment at their mother 's abandonment and completely flip their tiny lids when she takes up with talent spotter Arnold Moss ( Dan Aykroyd ) . |
| 2 | Gay energy has been taken up with service provision and public education : little has been left for meaningful activism , and our anger , fear and grief has been kept strictly privatised , so as not to exacerbate the hostility we face in the outside world , and so as not to risk funding . |
| 3 | About half the tie the police spend investigating crime , is taken up with form filling and bureaucracy . |
| 4 | Now Janet , recently linked with rap star Tone Loc , has taken up with millionaire singer Freedom Williams . |
| 5 | But , as a general principle , Northern Ireland 's social divisions ensure that police management prefer neighbourhood police to be on the street , as is their purpose , and in practice about three-quarters of the normal shift is taken up with beat duty , which is much higher than in Great Britain . |
| 6 | The typical interviewee profile of the ‘ recreational user ’ is that of ‘ dabbling ’ at weekends , usually sharing a ‘ bag ’ with a friend , then gradually filling in the days in between until they are all taken up by heroin use . |
| 7 | The second is the increased take up of council tax housing benefits which we anticipate , you can blame the government for that . |