Example sentences of "take up with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew Maggie was very sensible and that she would n't take up with any riff-raff , nor would she do anything she should n't . |
| 2 | All that would have to go before he took up with any woman . |
| 3 | She took up with old pals like Carolyn Pride and Kate Menzies . |
| 4 | Career development loans — about whose future the hon. Member for Sedgefield registered such heartfelt concern a couple of weeks ago — are being taken up with increasing enthusiasm . |
| 5 | A quarter of a G.P. 's surgery visits are taken up with arthritic sufferers — regular gentle exercise helps to alleviate the problem and can defer this debilitating disease . |
| 6 | Time saved through nurses having prescribing powers could be taken up with extra paperwork created by its introduction . |
| 7 | As a result much judicial time was taken up with administrative matters and with interlocutory matters which did not justify the use of the time and expertise of the judges . |
| 8 | Much of each judgment was taken up with painstaking reviews of the historical and social context of the advertisement 's publication , with the syntactical features of the sentence and its relationship to the rest of the advertisement , and with the undeniable fact that indeed there was considerable ‘ evidence ’ about the matters at hand at the time of the advertisement 's publication . |
| 9 | In 692 a fourth Council of Constantinople , almost wholly taken up with disciplinary matters , marked a watershed in relations between East and West . |
| 10 | A good deal of wall space was taken up with framed photographs , each one labelled with a date and the location . |
| 11 | Much of the Guide Book is taken up with careful description of colourful life in the Lake District . |
| 12 | The remainder was taken up with minor details . |
| 13 | He proposes four bonds : attachment ( the extent to which individuals have close emotional ties to other people ) ; commitment ( the extent to which they see conventional behaviour , for example at school , as offering immediate or long-term rewards ) ; involvement ( the extent to which their time is taken up with conventional activities ) ; belief ( the extent to which their beliefs about what is permissible or not coincide with conventional ones ) . |
| 14 | As we are in the suburbs of the city , much of the land at the sides of the road is taken up with intensive agriculture . |
| 15 | However , this young man , besides having the wrong car , was not the most talented of drivers and my first ten minutes were taken up with some anxiety about the likelihood of our arriving at the Consulate intact . |
| 16 | Was erm the whole town taken up with these sort of two occupations ? |
| 17 | Incredibly , he had taken up with those student thugs , and they had taken him out drinking until they were all blind drunk — ‘ So drunk , nobody remembered what had happened next day . ’ |
| 18 | Sister and her nurse had calmed her down a little and found out that the child 's father had deserted them , and she had taken up with another man . |
| 19 | Despite repeated rape and electric shock , Paulina never mentioned the name of her lover , who married her after she was released , though he had taken up with another woman . |
| 20 | Apart , though , from one or two short cuts in the domestic offices — hardly surprising when basement space had to be taken up with loaded drawers of garage and garden — Sir Edwin Lutyens , Weaver declared , ‘ has played his most difficult game of planning with serious ingenuity and success ’ . |
| 21 | Throughout his career he continued with a series of busts of well-known personalities , such as W. E. Gladstone , Lord Suffield , and General William Booth [ q.v. ] of the Salvation Army , and appealing statuettes , such as ‘ Aphrodite ’ , ‘ The Dancer ’ , and ‘ St George and the Dragon ’ , but more of his time was taken up with monumental sculpture , such as the colossal bronze statue of the Duke of Connaught [ q.v. ] for Hong Kong , those of Queen Victoria for Allahabad and Colombo , Sir William Rose Mansfield , first Baron Sandhurst [ q.v. ] for Bombay , a Cameron highlander for Inverness , and Sir John A. MacDonald [ q.v. ] for the Canadian cities of Montreal , Hamilton , and Kingston . |
| 22 | As we have seen , most of the internal volume of wood material is taken up with empty space , or at least by air and sap . |
| 23 | ‘ This is not just becoming more common , it 's actually expected of older , successful businessmen to take up with younger wives . |