Example sentences of "he take up a post " in BNC.
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1 | Avowing his apostasy , he left Dunsden in February 1913 , and , after a short stay with his family , he took up a post as a teacher of English at the Berlitz school in Bordeaux . |
2 | He was trained at Bradford Technical College and the Royal College of Art , and was employed as a textile designer in Bradford until 1911 , when he took up a post as inspector of arts and crafts in the Egyptian Ministry of Education in Cairo . |
3 | He started work at the Stationers ' Company School , London , in 1874 , and by the time he took up a post at Grantham Grammar School in 1884 he had already taught in Saffron Walden , Winchester , Newbury , and Cambridge . |
4 | The following year he registered for study in philosophy and theology at the University of Leyden and , apart from a brief return to Rostock , remained in The Netherlands until he took up a post at the University of Copenhagen in June 1648 . |
5 | In 1892 he took up a post under W. B. Latham in the Birmingham Botanic Gardens , studying at the technical school in Birmingham , where he won the Queen 's prize in botany . |
6 | He took up a post as an executive with a engineering firm before winning the South Edinburgh seat in a by-election in 1957 . |