Example sentences of "took up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of these legendary figures may be dead , so , for instance , the Yorkshire Ripper took up a mantle laid down by the original Ripper in the last century . |
| 2 | He took up a sleeping-bag , unzipping it so that she had something dry to sit on . |
| 3 | A year or two later he took up a consultancy somewhere in the Home Counties . |
| 4 | He took up a pen and began to write quickly . |
| 5 | He took up a pen and drew a few lines on a notepad — meaningless lines that irritated her as she watched . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Davide , called by his father to the piano , took up a sheet and set it on the mahogany lyre stand . |
| 8 | But there were mistakes and sometimes a wrong tune was precented which did not fit the words , and on one or two occasions the congregation took up a tune of their own which was not intended in my precenting . |
| 9 | Then he pinned her against the wall , took up a karate stance and began punching her in the breast and armpit . |
| 10 | It was dark when we took up a position among thick briars and long grass . |
| 11 | Mona was quiet , hardworking and extremely stubborn , anxious to be agreeable ; but once she took up a position — or got caught in one — she was obstinately immovable and this had often brought her into conflict with Moran . |
| 12 | She then went to Victoria Station and bought a return ticket to Epsom , where she took up a position in the pressing crowd on the inside rails at Tattenham Corner , a few yards before the runners reach the straight . |
| 13 | The narrator took up a position to one side of the loudspeaker , and the listeners were challenged to guess which was which as alternate lines were delivered . |
| 14 | The government forces took up a position near Tranent , ten miles [ 16 km ] east of Edinburgh , just inland from the village of Prestonpans on the Firth of Forth . |
| 15 | Forster took up a position with his back to the bows , wedging himself into a corner as Delaney tried the ship 's telephone again , speaking slowly and deliberately . |
| 16 | Then she took up a position standing right at the back . |
| 17 | The strong Auckland group within the team took up a position of influence . |
| 18 | I arrived at the shooting school well before the start , wearing a mackintosh , and with my umbrella up , I took up a position to watch . |
| 19 | Here I took up a position with the grand title of ‘ Consultant ’ . |
| 20 | Soon afterwards she took up a position at the hospital . |
| 21 | She poured herself a gin and tonic and took up a position she had frequently occupied since the kidnap — standing by the lounge window , staring out into the garden , glass cupped in her right hand and cradled against her breast like a child , cigarette held aloft in her left hand , mouth half-open , eyes fixed intently on some distant and perhaps invisible object . |
| 22 | Most of my friends collapsed thankfully on to their beds , but I slunk down the long flights of stone stairs and took up a position in the foyer where I could watch the front door . |
| 23 | In October 1911 he took up a position as pupil and lay assistant to the Revd Herbert Wigan , the vicar of Dunsden , near Reading . |
| 24 | She straightened , took up a position at his side , adjusted her feet in a v like a ballerina in first Position and , holding out the panels of her skirt , nodded to him to begin . |
| 25 | Malone absorbed the pressure and against the run of play took up a position inside their opponents 22 . |
| 26 | Robert took up a position on the boundary , fairly near to the maths master . |
| 27 | Edward took up a position at the door-post . |
| 28 | Minitel is now an established part of French life , largely because the Government bankrolled its implementation so much that almost everyone took up a machine . |
| 29 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 30 | Simply the sense of physical disgust which filled me whenever I took up a brush and dipped it in paint . |