Example sentences of "[pron] take up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I take up this point about the forty three forty three , the chairman is telling me thirty four . |
| 2 | It is likely that someone taking up a post direct from library school will have far less practical or quasi-practical experience of book selection than of the two preceding activities , and this may mean that the manager needs to introduce his staff to the basic elements of book provision work in addition to the special features of a particular system . |
| 3 | It is small but covers the areas needed by someone taking up skiing — clothing , physical and ski preparation , basic technique and safety are all there . |
| 4 | The management problems encountered by someone taking up a first managerial appointment in a medium-sized branch . |
| 5 | Simply the sense of physical disgust which filled me whenever I took up a brush and dipped it in paint . |
| 6 | I took up my place a short distance in front of the Officer in Command of the parade . |
| 7 | Every room in the house contained some form of Bible and I took up a large ancient looking one and opened it as if it had been a door into a cave . |
| 8 | I took up dancing again with a vengeance ; grinding through as many as six lessons a week . |
| 9 | At first I played the bodhran drum [ he pronounced it ‘ bowran ’ ] and then I took up the guitar . |
| 10 | I often used to read it when we were in action and , believe it or not , every time I took up the book it opened at page 92 , although I have never deliberately read that page , as far as I can remember — so I took the hint and wrote … ’ |
| 11 | Instead , I took up running in order to take more exercise in a shorter time . |
| 12 | It happened with me , when at the age of 18 , I took up pen and paper to make a reply to the readers ' letters column of the Glasgow Evening Times , in answer to a man who supported the rise of Nazism in Germany . |
| 13 | In the first I shall review activity within the Engineering Branch before I took up my post within the MOD . |
| 14 | I took up golf four years ago , while living in Northern Ireland , where club membership was not a problem . |
| 15 | ‘ So I took up a hold on 210 overhead the ditched pilot using Rate 1s as crosswind and base legs . |
| 16 | ‘ I took up a new hold at 500 feet over the pilot and was pleased to see the dinghy on the water , fully inflated , between the helicopter and the pilot — and upwind of him ! |
| 17 | I like boxing and when I was suspended in the summer of 1990 I took up boxing and accepted , perhaps too quickly , a fight against the then French light-heavyweight champion . |
| 18 | By the time 1972 was out I had found a Vets club in join , the VAC as it was called , and I began to pick up something about the scene — where to find the minor races , who to go to for training advice , the way to use blocks and how to seek out physios for repair purposes — and I took up steady training . |
| 19 | I was no good at rugby so I took up rowing . |
| 20 | Meehan , at the time I took up his case , had had three solicitors , all from Glasgow : Joseph Beltrami for his trial , then Ross Harper and later Leonard Murray . |
| 21 | Long before I took up climbing on any regular basis I accompanied a friend for a summer evening 's sport at Lawrencefield in Derbyshire . |
| 22 | I was carried ignominiously between two colleagues back to the car and greeted my wife with the sheepish grin she had been dreading ever since I took up the sport . |
| 23 | Some years ago , shortly after I took up climbing , a more experienced Geordie acquaintance was taking me up the Barbican on Castle Rock , Thirlmere . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I did n't offer an opinion on that since I did n't have any , so I took up the time admiring the surroundings . |
| 26 | Here I took up a position with the grand title of ‘ Consultant ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ I took up the cups of coffee , five cups , and they give me only four straws , not five , ’ he explained carefully . |
| 28 | The act of love did happen — and only once , and only just — immediately before I took up my new post at Schloss Hartheim , near Linz , in the province of Austria . |
| 29 | I took up coxing and rowing . |
| 30 | Then I took up the painting and carried it back here and I signed it . ’ |