Example sentences of "took up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " The Session find that there is no suitable person to undertake the duties of precentor , and that they are now in the same position as they were two years ago , when Mrs McIver took up the work . |
| 2 | Their apparatus was primitive and they could not control the reaction , so it was another two years before a different team took up the work again . |
| 3 | When Robert Bruce , Earl of Carrick , took up the fight against the English and had himself crowned King of Scotland , Walter the Steward ( Walter Stewart ) supported him and fought by his side in 1314 at the Battle of Bannockburn . |
| 4 | McFarlane took up the question of self-fulfilling prophecies in relation to the perceived incomer/Shetlander conflict which the SIC Structure Plan envisaged . |
| 5 | Having lost the Conservative party leadership contest to John Major he took up the position of President of the Board of Trade after the last election … |
| 6 | Since he took up the position in 1987 , closures of geriatric hospitals , partnership with the private sector , nurse regradings , NHS trusts and a review of maternity and acute services , which will cut over 1,000 hospital beds and possibly lead to a closure of a number of hospitals , are among the controversies which have raged . |
| 7 | He took up the brass paper knife and with a turn of his wrist had the drawer open , his stay in prison had served some useful purpose . |
| 8 | She settled herself beside him at the bench and took up the satin slippers she was decorating for Meg . |
| 9 | She did not leave as Corbett took up the pewter spoon and began to eat . |
| 10 | And then , after a time , we er had the er electricity took up the yard and into the shop and then we was able to buy a little machine you know what I mean and it went from there . |
| 11 | On 9 March , fully one month after the Paris telegram , the Comintern took up the slogan of " the United Front against Fascism " . |
| 12 | The following day we took up the problem again . |
| 13 | The use of polyethylene terephthalate on a commercial scale for bottles — by a process known by the clumsy name of injection stretch blow moulding — began in the USA in 1977 , and by 1979 , when ICI in Europe took up the development , American consumption had risen to 140 kta . |
| 14 | They cleared the stream in one lithe bound and took up the chase . |
| 15 | The gentle old men who took up the presidency of Lebanon had about them a streak of cold savagery that stunned even the Palestinians . |
| 16 | He died in 1876 at the age of 93 , and his son John took up the duties . |
| 17 | Oldham took up the attack again and Barlow , who had a fine match at left-back , totally containing Rocastle , floated in a deep cross beyond Winterburn . |
| 18 | Because her sister still appeared to hesitate , Isabel took up the refrain . |
| 19 | As the orchestra took up the refrain once more , she came to take her mother 's hand at centre stage , and sang as if it was the most natural thing in the world . |
| 20 | At one point the youngest boys , the choir 's sopranos , took up the refrain , pure and lucid , filling the entire church with angelic sound . |
| 21 | A tack room and hay loft took up the north side ; on the south side were grooms ' and coachman 's quarters . |
| 22 | He took up the invitation , only to be interned on the outbreak of war . |
| 23 | He took up the invitation , only to be promptly interned on the outbreak of war . |
| 24 | Everyone took up the invitation . |
| 25 | Facing an uncertain future in Jamaica as a single mother supporting four children , ( her husband had just left her ) , Rita took up the invitation of a relative who had emigrated to Canada and came to try her luck . |
| 26 | Almost 2,000 took up the invitation during a two-day open house and were taken on a guided tour route which stretched over a mile through the £1.85 billion development . |
| 27 | Secure in business and society — he was a Merchant Adventurer , Muscovy merchant , and MP at the time of his marriage — Smith abandoned a conventional career in commerce when he took up the collectorship of the subsidy on imports at the port of London in 1558 . |
| 28 | Four years after her accident Dawn took up the javelin , shot and discus . |
| 29 | Shetland Bird Club took up the issue and have appealed to the government to curb the fishery , even presenting a petition to the Prime Minister . |
| 30 | The Morning Post joined in when the First Sea Lord , Sir Francis Bridgeman , resigned in 1912 and Bonar Law took up the issue too , suggesting that Bridgeman had been " brutally ill-used " by Churchill . |