Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] take up a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For another , if it is n't too far ahead for you to enquire into this , Harry , then I might take up an invitation I 've received to attend Newmarket races at the beginning of October . |
| 2 | However , if it really is I will take up a collection for the medical fees . |
| 3 | Er , Erm , another thing you might do , you might take up a hobby that you 've got to think about . |
| 4 | This year it includes a series of extravaganzas in sports centres at Omagh , Craigavon , Lisburn and Ballymena and the distribution of a booklet telling children how they can take up a sport . |
| 5 | And so I was extremely surprised when no more than weeks later Émile telephoned Jean-Claude and proposed to him the idea that he should take up an appointment as composer-in-residence at an American university . |
| 6 | He had his time-proven tests for this : one was simply to walk over the land and to ‘ feel it through his boots ’ , ; then again he would take up a handful of soil , carefully crumbling it to test it ; or he would bend down and draw his fist backwards through the soil . |