Example sentences of "he take up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He takes up a job as a pilot shuttling planes between a Greek island and the mainland , but is eventually able to vindicate himself when his old ship reaches the Aegean . |
| 2 | He takes up the story after the birth in Bethlehem with the arrival of the wise men from the east . |
| 3 | He takes up the story : |
| 4 | Invited to join the King , with his companions the Chancellor Colonel Sapt and his aide-de-camp Fritz von Tarlenheim , on the ruler 's last night of freedom before he takes up the burden of the Crown , Rassendyll is conveniently available to step in when the monarch collapses , drugged by wine presented by his jealous brother Black Michael . |
| 5 | Secrett has refused to comment on his plans until he takes up the post . |
| 6 | A year or two later he took up a consultancy somewhere in the Home Counties . |
| 7 | One of the best descriptions of the landscape of Madeira is that given by White and Johnson ( Madeira. : Its Climate and Scenery , 1860 ) : ‘ When Columbus was asked by Queen Isabella to give her some notion of the configuration of Jamaica , it is said that he took up a sheet of paper , and after crushing it in his hand , partly opened it out ; then placing it on the table , he told her Majesty that she would derive a better idea of the island from the crumpled paper than from any description conveyed in words . |
| 8 | He took up a pen and began to write quickly . |
| 9 | He took up a pen and drew a few lines on a notepad — meaningless lines that irritated her as she watched . |
| 10 | In October 1911 he took up a position as pupil and lay assistant to the Revd Herbert Wigan , the vicar of Dunsden , near Reading . |
| 11 | He took up a sleeping-bag , unzipping it so that she had something dry to sit on . |
| 12 | It 's a problem that so enraged Martin Cutts of Words at Work that he took up a challenge to rewrite one . |
| 13 | He took up a cloth by the side of the cash register and started to move it slowly over the surface , looking up just once as I left the shop , saying , ‘ Goodbye , then . ’ |
| 14 | Nothing is known of him until , at the age of fourteen , he took up a sort of apprenticeship with a widow near Lowestoft . |
| 15 | He took up a fork and prodded at a dish of small silvery fish marinated in olive oil , garlic and wine vinegar . |
| 16 | Bremner is one of many Scottish players who made a remarkable transformation when he took up a career in management . |
| 17 | Avowing his apostasy , he left Dunsden in February 1913 , and , after a short stay with his family , he took up a post as a teacher of English at the Berlitz school in Bordeaux . |
| 18 | He was trained at Bradford Technical College and the Royal College of Art , and was employed as a textile designer in Bradford until 1911 , when he took up a post as inspector of arts and crafts in the Egyptian Ministry of Education in Cairo . |
| 19 | He started work at the Stationers ' Company School , London , in 1874 , and by the time he took up a post at Grantham Grammar School in 1884 he had already taught in Saffron Walden , Winchester , Newbury , and Cambridge . |
| 20 | The following year he registered for study in philosophy and theology at the University of Leyden and , apart from a brief return to Rostock , remained in The Netherlands until he took up a post at the University of Copenhagen in June 1648 . |
| 21 | In 1892 he took up a post under W. B. Latham in the Birmingham Botanic Gardens , studying at the technical school in Birmingham , where he won the Queen 's prize in botany . |
| 22 | He took up a post as an executive with a engineering firm before winning the South Edinburgh seat in a by-election in 1957 . |
| 23 | He took up the poker and turned over a log carefully . |
| 24 | He took up the brass paper knife and with a turn of his wrist had the drawer open , his stay in prison had served some useful purpose . |
| 25 | Having lost the Conservative party leadership contest to John Major he took up the position of President of the Board of Trade after the last election … |
| 26 | Since he took up the position in 1987 , closures of geriatric hospitals , partnership with the private sector , nurse regradings , NHS trusts and a review of maternity and acute services , which will cut over 1,000 hospital beds and possibly lead to a closure of a number of hospitals , are among the controversies which have raged . |
| 27 | A member of the Warrington Road runners , he took up the sport six years ago . |
| 28 | He took up the money . |
| 29 | He took up the invitation , only to be interned on the outbreak of war . |
| 30 | He took up the invitation , only to be promptly interned on the outbreak of war . |