Example sentences of "they take up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Together with the freight stations they took up a considerable area of the city . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 4 | The shrewd parent now gets our free starter pack for their son or daughter when they take up a place at Manor Park . |
| 5 | Beside having a green image , they are particularly popular with supermarkets : on some calculations , they take up a quarter as much shelf space per wash as even concentrated powders . |