Example sentences of "[vb past] up [art] post [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Soon afterwards his father took up a post as superintendent with the Electric Telegraph Company in London . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He took up a post as an executive with a engineering firm before winning the South Edinburgh seat in a by-election in 1957 . |
| 8 | After joining the bank in 1975 , she moved to Bangor and in 1978 took up a post in London where she worked in a number of West End branches . |
| 9 | Dr Mann took up the post of organist and choir master at Beverley at a time when the music at the Minster was at a fairly low ebb . |
| 10 | Joan accordingly took up the post of companion to the lady Anne and thereafter had no great difficulty in adjusting to a new and privileged life-style . |
| 11 | Horsley cheerfully admitted when he took up the post of Chair that he knew nothing about newspapers . |
| 12 | Having trained as a photo-process engraver , he took up the post of demonstrator in a firm in Gothenburg , Sweden , in 1907 . |
| 13 | However , in 1855 he took up the post of professor of drawing at King 's College , London , which he combined with book illustration . |
| 14 | , William ( 1730–1803 ) , landscape designer and gardener , whose early life is obscure , took up the post of head gardener to Sir Nathaniel Curzon at Kedleston , Derbyshire , on 8 September 1756 . |
| 15 | Returning to England , he took up the post of sub-warden of Toynbee Hall , the universities ' settlement in the East End of London , 1920–9 , serving also as a co-opted member of the London County Council education committee , 1925–31 . |
| 16 | Gennady Gerasimov , Foreign Ministry spokesman until November 1990 [ see p. 37864 ] , on March 11 took up the post of Soviet ambassador to Portugal . |
| 17 | In July , last year , he took up the post of environmental adviser . |
| 18 | Paul Owen has was appointed Director of the BCU and took up the post on February 17th . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The rule also affected Henry Cotton , who took up the post at Royal Waterloo , Belgium , in 1933 and thus missed two Ryder Cup matches when he was at the peak of his powers . |
| 21 | Abul Ahsan ( a member of the Bangladesh foreign service ) completed his tenure as the first Secretary-General of SAARC at the end of October 1989 ; his successor , K. K. Bhargava ( India ) , took up the post at the Secretariat in Kathmandu , the capital of Nepal . |
| 22 | When he first took up the post in September 1943 one of his students was the fourteen-year-old Robert Hunt , then doing a junior art scholarship and familiarly known as Bobby . |
| 23 | In January 1869 , on the strength of his published work and Ritschl 's glowing reference , he was offered the chair despite his youth and lack of the usually mandatory doctorate and " habilitation " ; he took up the post in April 1869 . |
| 24 | In 1904 the Ontario Provincial Geologist , impressed by the quantities of the rare mineral cobalt he had detected in the ores of one locality , Long Lake , put up a post with a board attached bearing the legend ‘ Cobalt Station , Temiskamming and Northern Ontario Railway ’ . |
| 25 | Finding teaching too confining , she gave up a post as a governess in 1895 . |