Example sentences of "that [pers pn] took up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quirinus is lord there and he knows me , for it is with he and his Myrcans that I took up service over a year ago . |
| 2 | Erm just as an example , in the cutouts distributed , the three square kilometres , the three hundred hectares , is erm er double of course the area that I took up to two thousand and six of one and a half . |
| 3 | Expenditures , er some of the the er higher amounts are printing at ninety pounds fifty , cons conference fees at sixty pounds , er Euro Election er donation of twenty five pounds , photocopies of forty pounds , er bank charges Which er was a point that I took up with the bank erm Mr Chairman last December . |
| 4 | It was on the rebound from Higginbotham that she took up with the first boy that she came near to liking . |
| 5 | Ever the professional , he silently directed his men with hand signals , ensuring that they took up the correct positions . |
| 6 | And then of course erm would it be later that they took up the English miners ? |
| 7 | One of the best descriptions of the landscape of Madeira is that given by White and Johnson ( Madeira. : Its Climate and Scenery , 1860 ) : ‘ When Columbus was asked by Queen Isabella to give her some notion of the configuration of Jamaica , it is said that he took up a sheet of paper , and after crushing it in his hand , partly opened it out ; then placing it on the table , he told her Majesty that she would derive a better idea of the island from the crumpled paper than from any description conveyed in words . |
| 8 | It 's a problem that so enraged Martin Cutts of Words at Work that he took up a challenge to rewrite one . |