Example sentences of "had take up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seven or eight thousand figures had taken up position kneeling on prayer carpets , so that as you walked in through the great red-stone gate you were confronted by rank upon rank of white-clad backs topped with brightly coloured turbans or embroidered mosque-caps . |
| 2 | The first group had taken up position in all the key intersections so that they could control anyone who attempted to pass . |
| 3 | Instead , they had taken up position in one of the shops opposite where they were concealed by heavy wooden boarding and from where they could see directly into Mordecai 's shop . |
| 4 | At the last moment he caught sight of Owen , who had taken up position at an adjoining table , and raised hands to heaven . |
| 5 | Every available battery was brought to bear on the French guns , but many of these had taken up position behind the parapets of the forts clustered on the Bois Bourrus ridge and were consequently most difficult to hit . |
| 6 | No one had taken up Sylvian 's work , despite the ominous ruler and ink . |
| 7 | Out of the former PNI , Sukarno had taken up partindo , and within one year its membership soared to 20000 . |
| 8 | Jay had taken up situationist sculpture , and eased herself half upright to look at yesterday evening 's achievement . |
| 9 | Others with more initiative from the administrative ranks had taken up farming . |
| 10 | In the eighteen months since Mrs Thatcher had taken up employment at Dickins and Jones , the mood of the Party had perceptibly changed for the better , the great bulk of the membership having transferred its loyalty smoothly from the old Leader to the new . |
| 11 | When the rats who had taken up residence in his building were ousted . |
| 12 | Meanwhile the Elector Carl Theodor had taken up residence in Munich , and had invited the members of his court to join him there ( though they could stay on at Mannheim and retain their salaries if they wished ) . |
| 13 | After the service was over , they broke their fast in the small whitewashed refectory before approaching the Prior who confirmed his speculation of the previous evening that the Lord Bruce and his entourage had taken up residence in the port of Leith . |
| 14 | The first extensive studies of Romano-British pottery were by Thomas May , who died on 28 October , 1931 at Stratford-upon-Avon , where he had taken up residence to be able to work on the nearby site at Tiddington , ( Fieldhouse , May and Wellstood , 1931 ) . |
| 15 | Surely this was another clue , another coded reference ; either that or my capacity for fantasy , temporarily dislodged from my visual imagination , had taken up residence in another realm , polluting my very ability to comprehend . |
| 16 | This was the emotion he had tried to purge himself of by identifying with the snakes that had taken up residence in the ashes of his family 's land . |
| 17 | It made her feel a little dowdy , as though she had taken up residence in the suburbs of morality . |
| 18 | ( Martin had taken up residence there by 1667 , following his marriage , and Jean by 1668 , the year his eldest son died ( Arch . |
| 19 | And still Shiona had failed to pin down Jake , despite the fact that , out of desperation , she had taken up residence at his Edinburgh home . |