Example sentences of "took up the [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Foster , who took up the issue on behalf of farmers and operators , said : ‘ I am deeply disappointed that the Intervention Board has not accepted the strong arguments put forward in favour of the facility . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I wrote to the Daily Mail , which is affiliated with Dogs Today , and your magazine very kindly took up the campaign on our behalf . |
| 3 | Living through the post-Darwinian debates , he invariably took up the cudgels on behalf of scientific rationalism . |
| 4 | Not long after Mrs Bloomer 's crusade , the women favoured by pre-Raphaelite painters also took up the cudgels on behalf of dress reformers and wore loose-fitting dresses with low-set sleeves and dropped shoulder lines for maximum movement and comfort . |
| 5 | The " Hallelujah lasses " had been used to raising their own voices in protest and employing some fairly dramatic methods to attract attention from the time Catherine Booth took up the cudgels on behalf of women in the early days of the movement . |
| 6 | From 1927 onwards , as the consequences of Eliot 's baptism into the Anglican church showed up in the imagery of ‘ Journey of the Magi ’ , ‘ A Song for Simeon ’ , ‘ Animula ’ , and most conspicuously ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ ( 1930 ) , Tate , open to the solicitations of Christian belief , took up the running on Eliot 's behalf from the non-believer Wilson . |
| 7 | I my money l last time and they took up the limit on my cash card . |
| 8 | Paul Owen has was appointed Director of the BCU and took up the post on February 17th . |
| 9 | Meetings between the military commanders of all three factions in Bosnia at Sarajevo airport on Oct. 23 and Oct. 26 , chaired by the new UNPROFOR commander Philippe Morillon ( who took up the post on Sept. 30 ) , failed to halt the fighting . |
| 10 | Jim took up the slack on his own chain and four others , like the Casting-Master almost naked except for a blackened leather apron and tight-fitting skull cap , pulled and cursed the liquid iron on its descent to the earth . |
| 11 | The biggest concern of the executioner , a man named Billington , was that the now quivering bulk of a fifteen stone woman would snap her head off as the rope took up the slack on the trip through the trapdoor . |