Example sentences of "take up [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His replacement will probably not take up office until 1 September 193 . |
| 2 | He trained as an engraver but took up work with deaf people and became their missioner in Paisley , Scotland . |
| 3 | The troops gathered the Croats in the Franciscan monastery on Tuesday after Muslims overran the area and took up position on all sides . |
| 4 | Two hundred thousand American women took up golf in 1981 bringing the total of female golfers to 3.4 million in the United States . |
| 5 | She took up guitar at seven , gave her first recital at nine , her first concerto at 10 , her first radio broadcast at 14 , won an international guitar competition at 17 , and has continued to pick up awards and critical plaudits on her chosen instrument . |
| 6 | We have two women Equal Opportunities Officers who took up post in early September . |
| 7 | we rehearsed it and we rehearsed it and I mean I did n't mind they were paying the bill for and I literally with a college took up residence for several days before it in a local hotel and we went through it in every fine detail |
| 8 | Does my hon. Friend accept , however , that among pensioners , particularly those who took up residence in sheltered accommodation after 1988 , there is a real fear of injustice , in that some of them have to pay the full licence and some of them do not ? |
| 9 | Instead , they had taken up position in one of the shops opposite where they were concealed by heavy wooden boarding and from where they could see directly into Mordecai 's shop . |
| 10 | The first group had taken up position in all the key intersections so that they could control anyone who attempted to pass . |
| 11 | The shoal has taken up residence in one particular area of the canal and are congregating in a 6ft deep hole a yard from the far bank reed bed at Plex Lane . |
| 12 | Surely this was another clue , another coded reference ; either that or my capacity for fantasy , temporarily dislodged from my visual imagination , had taken up residence in another realm , polluting my very ability to comprehend . |
| 13 | En Shao appeared in Liverpool two years ago , shortly before he was due to take up position of principal conductor of the Ulster Orchestra where he is now installed . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , 17th Corps ( General August von Mackensen ) and his 1st Reserve Corps ( General Otto von Below ) were also to withdraw from the Gumbinnen area and march southward to take up station on 20th Corps ' left . |
| 15 | His ‘ Happy Workers ’ — hand cast in plastic — take up residence at 303 until 19 December . |
| 16 | They take up residence in some numbers in marsh and swampland . |
| 17 | These group-living females show remarkable degrees of social tolerance and sometimes take up residence in large , communal nests , carrying all their kittens in there and piling them up in a huge , squirming mass . |