Example sentences of "had take up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had taken up the idea , she supposed , and made everything bend to it . |
| 2 | Now another siren had taken up the warning . |
| 3 | He had taken up the cello at Gordonstoun , when his housemaster , Bob Whitby , could stand the noise of the bagpipes — his chosen instrument — no longer . |
| 4 | At once the audience had taken up the song , and drowned the dialogue . |
| 5 | On the other hand , when she had taken up the carpets for a dance for Algy and filled the house with sixteen-year-old boys from Harrow and Marlborough , she twitched to the thin soprano signals of public-school lust like a dog hearing the squeak of a rat in its sleep . |
| 6 | By July 6 Mladenov 's own Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP — the renamed Bulgarian Communist Party ) had taken up the call for his resignation with an editorial in the party newspaper Duma . |
| 7 | In Scotland not one local authority had taken up the scheme and only twenty-five councils in England and Wales had responded . |
| 8 | They were drawn up by Lamar Alexander , who on March 18 had taken up the post of Education Secretary following the December 1990 resignation of Lauro Cavazos [ see p. 37911 ] . |
| 9 | He had taken up the post with the NITB after spending eight years in Glasgow . |
| 10 | By this time he would not have been surprised if she had taken up the lecture and returned him a brief history of the next four centuries . |
| 11 | The perplexing thing was that Bella , whom he had now nerved himself to telephone every other evening with news of Sam , seemed not to mind the untenable situation particularly and had taken up the flute . |
| 12 | The counsellor was conscious that Susie had said nothing , while Peter had taken up the time . |