Example sentences of "took up the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He died in 1876 at the age of 93 , and his son John took up the duties . |
| 2 | This switch to feature films inevitably led to a new preoccupation with fiction and with developing screen fictions that took up the themes and conventions of respectable literary and theatrical tastes . |
| 3 | ‘ I took up the cups of coffee , five cups , and they give me only four straws , not five , ’ he explained carefully . |
| 4 | If no one took up the rights issue , Corporate could end up with nearly 29 per cent of the shares , but a 20 per cent stake is more likely . |
| 5 | A native singing ceremony had been performed to clear bad spirits away before the Australians took up the positions . |
| 6 | Using their favoured analogy in which the complexities of a nation-state were reduced to the simplicities of a corner shop balance sheet , the newly appointed boss of the Institute took up the cudgels again in February 1990 . |
| 7 | Living through the post-Darwinian debates , he invariably took up the cudgels on behalf of scientific rationalism . |
| 8 | Not long after Mrs Bloomer 's crusade , the women favoured by pre-Raphaelite painters also took up the cudgels on behalf of dress reformers and wore loose-fitting dresses with low-set sleeves and dropped shoulder lines for maximum movement and comfort . |
| 9 | The " Hallelujah lasses " had been used to raising their own voices in protest and employing some fairly dramatic methods to attract attention from the time Catherine Booth took up the cudgels on behalf of women in the early days of the movement . |
| 10 | She took up the handles of the hand-cart and began to push it , and now there was room only for the child to walk by the side of it . |
| 11 | Manchester had modest arrangements with Macclesfield and Winsford ; Liverpool had major schemes at Winsford ( again ) and Ellesmere Port ; Wolverhampton built at Wednesfield and Seisdon ; Salford had a major involvement with Worsley ; Newcastle upon Tyne expanded at Killingworth and Cramlington ; Bristol utilized Warmley ; and Walsall also took up the provisions of the Act . |
| 12 | Once he came out of the Navy , Charles became a little more involved , but it was not really until the end of the decade , after Mountbatten 's death , when he was looking for a real job to do , that Charles took up the reins himself . |
| 13 | On sight of them , he jumped down and first helped Aggie , then Millie up , and lastly squeezed himself corner-wise into the seat , took up the reins , and shouted , ‘ Gee up ! there . ’ |
| 14 | Another son-in-law , Richard Barnett , on Thornton 's retirement in 1817 , took up the reins of management and was still running the Guildford and Oxford theatres on the circuit until almost mid-century . |
| 15 | The only disturbance to its surface happened in the nineteenth century when the architect Gilbert Scott took up the edges in order to install a heating system . |
| 16 | It was she who took up the trays Anna would n't touch when she kept to her room and had sent for her trunks . |
| 17 | He took up the links again between Moses and the killing of the primal father at the end of his life . |
| 18 | Herbert Read in his book Education through Art took up the categories of types put forward by Jung . |
| 19 | Paul took up the drums , Steve sang and Wally became a guitarist , not a bad one either , very much in the Ron Wood school . |