Example sentences of "he take up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she hid all his Persian textbooks and persuaded him to take up badminton instead . |
| 2 | He lays down the only terms on which it is possible for him to take up residence with his people . |
| 3 | As Keith explained , it was not any easier for him to take up employment with the RAF because his father had been a career forces man . |
| 4 | When he returned he took up journalism . |
| 5 | However , while reading for the bar , his health broke down and , following a period of recuperation in Italy and without formal art training , he took up painting and an art patron , Sir Coutts Lindsay , provided him with a studio in London . |
| 6 | It 's got worse since he took up golf again . |
| 7 | In the early days of aviation he made designs for aeroplanes and , later in life , he took up golf and planned houses for himself and his friends in Berkshire . |
| 8 | In less than three months he , too , had moved — to a cottage just outside the village , where he took up gardening and fishing with great energy and enthusiasm . |
| 9 | After he took up art collecting as a hobby in the late 1870s , Mr Johnson devoted much of his time and fortune amassing one of the country 's finest collections of European Old Master and late nineteenth-century paintings . |
| 10 | He took up rowing in a wherry , and finally worked up to a single shell . |
| 11 | He took up archery just eight years ago and in that time has become a national instructor , teaching people of all ages , as well as reaching the championships . |
| 12 | From Norfolk Louis-Napoleon travelled to Philadelphia and then New York , where he took up residence in the Washington Hotel , Broadway . |
| 13 | Panofsky , who was Professor of art history at Hamburg University from 1926 to 1931 , was one of the many German intellectuals that were lost to Germany when he took up residence at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study in 1935 , having been forced to leave in 1933 . |
| 14 | You have n't talked to him after he took up residence there ? ’ |
| 15 | The plaintiff , B , entered into an agreement with Mirror Group Newspapers on 3 June 1988 that if he took up employment with Pergamon Media Trust , he would receive from MGN a sum of money in certain circumstances . |
| 16 | Interned when the government declared martial law in December 1981 , but released 11 months later , he took up employment at the shipyard in the spring of 1983 and in October of that year was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize . |
| 17 | And one of the main reasons why Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke chose Milton Keynes as the first police station to visit since he took up post in April . |
| 18 | In 1914 ill health forced him to leave the railway works , and he took up market gardening . |
| 19 | A year after he took up office at the College , Moynihan began a group portrait of the staff of the Painting School . |
| 20 | Knighton , Derbyshire-born and a professional for a year with Coventry City , was a teacher until 1984 when he took up property dealing . |