Example sentences of "and took up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He emigrated to Washington D.C. with his wife and two young sons , John and Philip , and took up a job as cornet player with the Barnum & Bailey Circus band . |
| 2 | Five minutes later a passenger aircraft appeared overhead and took up a hold at 7,000 feet . |
| 3 | She poured herself a gin and tonic and took up a position she had frequently occupied since the kidnap — standing by the lounge window , staring out into the garden , glass cupped in her right hand and cradled against her breast like a child , cigarette held aloft in her left hand , mouth half-open , eyes fixed intently on some distant and perhaps invisible object . |
| 4 | Most of my friends collapsed thankfully on to their beds , but I slunk down the long flights of stone stairs and took up a position in the foyer where I could watch the front door . |
| 5 | As The Maniacs Came Killing I rolled three more into the trusty Smith and West Point and took up a manly pose . |
| 6 | He and took up a career as a TV commentator with Murray Walker and was recently reported to have cash problems . |
| 7 | He just walked in announced this , threw himself into a chair and took up a book . |
| 8 | Rachel rose from the bed and took up the tray from the bed-side table . |
| 9 | Paul Owen has was appointed Director of the BCU and took up the post on February 17th . |
| 10 | Those who rejected the conventional view and took up the cause of Czechoslovakian children were largely outside the mainstream of refugee aid . |
| 11 | Mr Maxmilian Frizzell had never read a book since leaving school and did not know who Lawrence was , so he put down the newspaper and took up the Car Dealer and Garageman with what dignity he could muster . |
| 12 | But the gabble was such that the child could n't distinguish what it was they wanted , until the old woman cried , ‘ No candy rock today ! 'T IS all gone , all gone , ’ at which , one after the other , the children , as if at a signal , stopped gabbling and took up the chant : ‘ Raggie Aggie ! |
| 13 | She settled herself beside him at the bench and took up the satin slippers she was decorating for Meg . |
| 14 | He opted for the latter route and took up the gauntlet he saw set before him by steeling himself for a career as a boxer , a career in which he distinguished himself as a man of immense resolve and purposefulness . |
| 15 | ’ And as he and Kraal continued to talk old Minch quietly dropped down to her shelter and took up the food there , listening to their few memories of the world outside . |
| 16 | Carey checked it , then dragged back on the rod and took up the slack , working that way for five minutes or so before he beached the fish . |
| 17 | He smiled sadly , then went across and took up the basin , carrying it across to the door . |
| 18 | His wife seemed to recognise some signal and took up the conversational baton for the next lap . |
| 19 | With a sigh , and a glance of regret at the clear , bright day outside , he settled down in his chair and took up the first of the tomes . |
| 20 | They cleared the stream in one lithe bound and took up the chase . |
| 21 | ‘ We listened to Joe Lewis , In The Mood , that sort of thing and took up the whole floor for dancing — they hardly move around now . |
| 22 | When the war ended in 1813 , he returned to New York and took up an appointment in charge of the design and construction of ships for the U.S. Navy in its Brooklyn yard . |