Example sentences of "take up [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Scottish lord told King James that Andrewes ‘ did play with his text as a jackanapes does , who takes up a thing and tosses and plays with it and then takes up another and plays with it . |
| 2 | The man of wealth and pride Takes up the space that many poor supplied ; |
| 3 | I can not say that in an administrative context we shall take up every item that appears in the new clauses , at least not in the way that is implied . |
| 4 | Er , Erm , another thing you might do , you might take up a hobby that you 've got to think about . |
| 5 | Within the next year , a new more powerful launcher may take up a craft that will hover 36000 km above the Equator . |
| 6 | Mr Chairman erm I would like personally take up a suggestion that was in The Star about the possibility of a regional company being based at the playhouse in other words for a few months I would see it as people getting to know this company and rather like a repertory theatre of old then people would want to come and see these people in different roles and I think that would add to the you know repetitive . |
| 7 | We now shall take up an issue that has been touched on several times before : power transformation of the scale of a variable in order to make its analysis easier . |
| 8 | In just over two weeks , the four will take up the pins and the microphone for the benefit of Telegraph readers . |
| 9 | However , having carelessly left the shed unlocked , our mower and strimmer were stolen and , as we are both getting on a bit , we decided we would take up the lawn and put down gravel instead . |
| 10 | If the Church of England , which many preferred to call simply ‘ the Establishment ’ or , copying the Scots , ‘ the Episcopalian Church ’ violated its ‘ contract ’ and failed to provide a Protestant religion for England , then the Nonconformists , cooperating through the Council , would willingly take up the contract and deliver the appropriate religion . |
| 11 | I shall certainly take up the point that the hon. Gentleman has raised about London docklands . |
| 12 | And then — then they would take up the hoe and become farmers . |
| 13 | Surprisingly , some cynics might say , 49 people did take up the offer and the details were sent to the club to effect the paperwork . |
| 14 | er How many people do actually take up the offer and , and have flu vaccines nowadays ? |
| 15 | ‘ Once he is quite well , he will take up the reins and the business will be booming again , ’ she said out loud . |
| 16 | NAREA hopes SSDs and health authorities will take up the charter and incorporate it into working practices . |
| 17 | Before yesterday 's hearing Mr McTear , gasping for breath , said his goal was to ensure youngsters did not take up the habit and go through his ordeal . |
| 18 | He took up a pen and began to write quickly . |
| 19 | He took up a pen and drew a few lines on a notepad — meaningless lines that irritated her as she watched . |
| 20 | Davide , called by his father to the piano , took up a sheet and set it on the mahogany lyre stand . |
| 21 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 22 | Simply the sense of physical disgust which filled me whenever I took up a brush and dipped it in paint . |
| 23 | He took up a fork and prodded at a dish of small silvery fish marinated in olive oil , garlic and wine vinegar . |
| 24 | The tide had n't covered the pebbles yet , so I took up a handful and lobbed them at the bottle . |
| 25 | And then , after a time , we er had the er electricity took up the yard and into the shop and then we was able to buy a little machine you know what I mean and it went from there . |
| 26 | Shetland Bird Club took up the issue and have appealed to the government to curb the fishery , even presenting a petition to the Prime Minister . |
| 27 | Former EC trade commissioner Sir Leon Brittan took up the issue and he ordered repayment in July , 1990 . |
| 28 | This switch to feature films inevitably led to a new preoccupation with fiction and with developing screen fictions that took up the themes and conventions of respectable literary and theatrical tastes . |
| 29 | They were laid on a table before the canopied throne and an Act of Parliament became law only when the King , or his Commissioners , took up the Sceptre and used it to touch the relevant document . |
| 30 | When Richard finally took up the scrip and staff of a pilgrim , the latter broke under him . |