Example sentences of "take up [noun sg] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gill took up volleyball at school and returned to the sport three years ago . |
| 2 | David took up rowing at Portora and has won the Irish novice sculling and intermediate fours championships with BRC . |
| 3 | The next sister , Elizabeth Marian Edith ( ‘ Bessie ’ ) married Alf Davidge , a silk-buyer trained at the ‘ Cavendish House ’ department store in Cheltenham , who then took up employment at Debenham 's in London , near St Paul 's . |
| 4 | In October 1522 he conveyed two freehold houses and 1 ½ virgates to a certain Thomas Hyll , but subsequently seems to have taken up residence at Hagley , for in October 1526 he was presented for operating a brothel in which his own daughter was the star attraction : prostitution , it has been suggested , was a concomitant of deferred marriage , widespread among the peasantry of the West Midlands . |
| 5 | In 1846 these lime and Roman cement workings were purchased by William Lee , a lime burner from Burham who had already taken up residence at Holborough Court three years earlier . |
| 6 | In the eighteen months since Mrs Thatcher had taken up employment at Dickins and Jones , the mood of the Party had perceptibly changed for the better , the great bulk of the membership having transferred its loyalty smoothly from the old Leader to the new . |
| 7 | It was nearly time for her to take up position at Ludgate Circus , but first she had to get Ruby to leave . |
| 8 | He 's about to take up residence at Hertford College , Oxford . |
| 9 | I understand I 'm to take up residence at Number One , The Lime tree . ’ |
| 10 | Priest to take up post at Vatican |