Example sentences of "and [pers pn] took up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every room in the house contained some form of Bible and I took up a large ancient looking one and opened it as if it had been a door into a cave . |
| 2 | By the time 1972 was out I had found a Vets club in join , the VAC as it was called , and I began to pick up something about the scene — where to find the minor races , who to go to for training advice , the way to use blocks and how to seek out physios for repair purposes — and I took up steady training . |
| 3 | HAVING found a school for our three children and a house to rent , my wife and I took up our new life on . |
| 4 | ‘ We parted company and I took up with the bozo in the trenchcoat . |
| 5 | and I took up quite a few , thinned them out and my sister |
| 6 | Sometimes if there was an illness in the house the sick person would join in the prayers through the open doors but when the silence was not broken he nodded to Mona and she took up Rose 's Decade . |
| 7 | Now I needed his help in order to get started again , and we took up once more our old collaborative writing habits . |
| 8 | ‘ Gordon is an established professional who has represented his country and played for his clubs with distinction and we took up his case because we felt it was a slur that needed to be removed . ’ |
| 9 | They complicated the whole problem of obedience in a quite remarkable way , and they took up a great deal of Anselm 's time as archbishop . |
| 10 | It goes on to say and it came about that in thy journeying eastward they eventually discovered a valid plain and a land of Shinar and they took up growing there and they began to say each one to the other come on let us make bricks and bake and bake with a burning process , so bricks served as stone for them and |
| 11 | I my money l last time and they took up the limit on my cash card . |
| 12 | In 1747 , Stukeley could stand Stamford no longer and he took up the living of St. George 's in Bloomsbury , London , thus ending his associations with the town . |
| 13 | In 1914 ill health forced him to leave the railway works , and he took up market gardening . |
| 14 | Well daddy 's one day and he up this big flagstone and it was er topping off a grave and did n't ken what to do so he just put the flagstone back and kept on and the next time he went to he and he it up again and he took up the skull and . |
| 15 | It developed the direct-action methods of earlier campaigns into new and more dramatic forms and it took up an issue which was the central and most widely felt grievance of Derry Catholics — housing . |
| 16 | The bottom end of the rope was fixed to the back of the van and it took up the slack and held the tree in tension to give the saw ease of movement . |