Example sentences of "take up with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten-year-old Opal ( Gaby Hoffmann ) and 15-year-old Erica ( Samantha Mathis ) simmer with resentment at their mother 's abandonment and completely flip their tiny lids when she takes up with talent spotter Arnold Moss ( Dan Aykroyd ) . |
| 2 | It 's their first since splitting with Phonogram Records and taking up with Compulsion ( a new label started by the A&R man who had signed them to Phonogram in the first place ) , and shows the band in muscular form . |
| 3 | Are n't there more important things in my life that I could spend the time on that is currently taken up with exercise ? ’ |
| 4 | In chapter seven of The Form , leading his disciple on from the initial perspective of striving to order her inner life as if she should die tomorrow — a challenge which sets the adrenalin running and wonderfully sharpens awareness — he potently reminds her in terms of his own cultural coinage that the world is indeed " charged with the grandeur of God " by instructing her to see all her physical experience in terms of the sacrifice also offered at the Mass : By means of keeping in remembrance this little incantatory prayer at meals and indeed at all times not otherwise taken up with prayer or speech ( " and thynk it noght anely whils etes , bot bath before and after , ay bot when prayes or spekes " , 7.104.39 – 40 ) the disciple will maintain a constant perception of all aspects of sustaining life as a divine gift mysteriously available in time only through the processes of death and resurrection . |
| 5 | And so the long lease was dreamt up by Grand Metropolitan and taken up with enthusiasm by the rest of the national pub owners and brewers . |
| 6 | Although Cuvier himself made no use of the theological implications of this approach , it was taken up with enthusiasm by British exponents of the argument from design . |
| 7 | Thatcher ) led the charge on enlargement and that that particular banner has been taken up with enthusiasm by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and my right hon. Friend the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary . |
| 8 | Gay energy has been taken up with service provision and public education : little has been left for meaningful activism , and our anger , fear and grief has been kept strictly privatised , so as not to exacerbate the hostility we face in the outside world , and so as not to risk funding . |
| 9 | The application does nothing to retain the existing trees on the site , it was a , it is , a mature garden with some mature trees , and all those trees are to be removed , it certainly does n't do anything to retain the rural character of the na of the village , and certainly does n't enhance the character of the adjoining small er rural cottages , i in fact it would be , it could be argued that it damages the rural environment , because the development is such that it is more suited for an urban development , almost a city centre , because the comment has been made that there is only about a metre between the dwellings and indeed there is only a metre between the dwellings and the adjoining boundaries , surely there is a need for screening , it is in a in a very very prominent position , it can be seen clearly as you enter the village from the Farnsfield area , the present proposal does n't provide sufficient room for screening , and and like the screen which is adjacent to this building , which are set well back from the road , and provide an opportunity for screening the single access to the site and the fact that the frontage to these two properties is completely taken up with garaging and with vehicle access does n't even provide an opportunity to screen . |
| 10 | For pupils of high ability , too much of the curriculum was often taken up with preparation for exams , and too little done to stretch them in the earlier years . |
| 11 | Most of our free time in the afternoons and evenings is taken up with preparation , as the Chinese want us to produce detailed summaries in advance of our lectures . |
| 12 | His time since then has been taken up with self-examination — ‘ finding my real identity , trying to reorganise my own language combining western techniques with the voices from my earliest experience . ’ |
| 13 | The rest of the week has been taken up with dance rehearsals which , thanks to my futile flailings , are usually hysterical . |
| 14 | Once in government in the late 1970s and early 1980s , Hall 's deregulatory message was taken up with alacrity . |
| 15 | The Podmore survey indicated that on average 15 per cent of a practices ' time would be taken up with company and commercial work . |
| 16 | By far the largest portion of time in Art teaching is taken up with painting . |
| 17 | About half the tie the police spend investigating crime , is taken up with form filling and bureaucracy . |
| 18 | Much of the information system would unfortunately be taken up with information about the assortment of opening hours of individual bureaux . |
| 19 | Churchill 's proposal made at The Hague for a European Assembly had been taken up with vigour by the newly formed European Movement . |
| 20 | There was a trestle table and a huge stool , the rest of the room being taken up with leather and wooden caskets of all sizes . |
| 21 | Of this , 250 or so is taken up with lighting , leaving a little over 3,000 watts for water heating . |
| 22 | Most of Vertus 's hectarage is taken up with Chardonnay vines , but , interestingly , the 85 hectares of Pinot Noir are descended from pre-phylloxera vines brought from the famous Burgundy village of Beaune . |
| 23 | With most of 1962 and 1963 taken up with stage , television and film work , Crawford could reflect that his career was moving in the right direction . |
| 24 | Now Janet , recently linked with rap star Tone Loc , has taken up with millionaire singer Freedom Williams . |
| 25 | The whole of the first day 's proceedings was taken up with debate on the new presidency , again featuring accusations principally by radical deputies of the potential for authoritarianism and dictatorship . |
| 26 | Soon it was term time again and evening were taken up with swimming , Brownies and piano . |
| 27 | But , as a general principle , Northern Ireland 's social divisions ensure that police management prefer neighbourhood police to be on the street , as is their purpose , and in practice about three-quarters of the normal shift is taken up with beat duty , which is much higher than in Great Britain . |
| 28 | Question time has become increasingly taken up with party claims and counter claims or with constituency points , while debates often strike ministers as largely a waste of time . |
| 29 | There had been things Crevecoeur could have done to get out , such as take advantage of the open invitation to take up with Cab 's natro group . |