Example sentences of "[noun] and take up " in BNC.
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| 1 | During our discussion , you told me that you were about to leave the manager 's job at Athletico and take up a similar position with Ipswich Town . |
| 2 | Tod and I are feeling so terrific that we 've joined a club and taken up tennis . |
| 3 | ‘ We had been escorting a convoy from Halifax to the UK and were ordered to leave the convoy , refuel in Reykjavik and take up patrol of the Denmark Strait , 150 miles west of Iceland . |
| 4 | Nigel Carr is back in the Ulster fold and takes up a new responsibility as a selector |
| 5 | Differing tendencies are brought within the Party fold and taken up by the leadership ; otherwise , they perish . |
| 6 | Joan had accepted without reservation her half-sister 's suggestion that she go with Prince Richard and take up residence in the Tower . |
| 7 | As The Maniacs Came Killing I rolled three more into the trusty Smith and West Point and took up a manly pose . |
| 8 | Toshiba Corp has come out with a low-price , high performance version of the Dynabook laptop , the Dynabook 486E J-3100VS , which uses an 80486SX and has a 9.6″ 16 grey-scale monochrome display on the $2,390 version , with a colour thin-film transistor screen available for an additional $2,133 ; the unit weighs 5 lbs and takes up to 16Mb memory ; a desktop version , the J-3100S/VX , based on the Intel 80486DX2 , at $3,440 was launched at the same time . |
| 9 | Teclis returns to Ulthuan and takes up the position of High Loremaster in the Tower of Hoeth . |
| 10 | They summon the overseers before the magistrates for not complying with their unreasonable demands and though they do not always gain their ends yet it teases and harasses the overseers and takes up their time which is a great hardship . |
| 11 | For while she returned her kingdom to full doctrinal and liturgical conformity with Rome , many English Protestant exiles fled their homeland and took up residence in Strasbourg , Zurich , Emden , Frankfurt , and Geneva , where they gained first-hand experience of the Zwinglian and Calvinist forms of Protestantism , and became fully immersed in the Calvinist theology of grace and salvation . |
| 12 | Shaven-headed Nationalists rolled a car on to its side and took up positions behind it . |
| 13 | Di Revelle from the Red Cross says I 'd like to see it introduced in schools and taken up by the community . |
| 14 | What you mean to say is — everyone 's scared of cancer and/or the bomb , so they put their heads in the sand and take up jogging and unrefined bran … |
| 15 | Paradoxically however the demand for better films saw the American film industry move away from its natural habitat and take up residence in a suburban section of what was essentially a southern Californian oasis . |
| 16 | He sent for one man and Chennaa , swallowed some cold meat and wine and , wrapping himself in a dry cloak , went and mounted the camel , crooning love-talk as she rose to her feet and took up her soft , swaying gait . |
| 17 | George Vafa says that in spite of a six-year campaign and taking up his case with a number of legal firms , the Law Society of Scotland , the Scottish legal ombudsman and the Faculty of Advocates , he has failed to gain justice and has been treated like a criminal . |
| 18 | They had emphasised agitation on the concrete issues of electoral reform and discrimination in housing and employment , but NICRA originally operated as a body which made representations on the broad issues of civil liberties and took up individual cases of infringement of rights . |
| 19 | Cissie had been most reluctant to surrender her independence and take up employment in Moll Sutton 's flower shop . |
| 20 | Neale , 38 , has agreed a three-year contract and takes up his duties on March 1 . |
| 21 | She was only disturbed by the fact that , once the funeral was over , her mother-in-law made no attempt to leave the Manor and take up residence in the dower house . |
| 22 | He was released from prison after thirty months , returned to his barker 's job in San Francisco and took up with a stripper . |
| 23 | She poured herself a gin and tonic and took up a position she had frequently occupied since the kidnap — standing by the lounge window , staring out into the garden , glass cupped in her right hand and cradled against her breast like a child , cigarette held aloft in her left hand , mouth half-open , eyes fixed intently on some distant and perhaps invisible object . |
| 24 | Students should stand ready to explain and to defend their views ; and to listen to counter views and take up a further position if the balance of the contending positions points that way . |
| 25 | The ‘ naked ’ crab moved about 60 cm ( 2 ft ) away while the first crab nipped out of its damaged shell and took up residence in the new one . |
| 26 | Unhappily , many of the 700 subscribers must have failed to deliver the second cash instalment and take up their copies when the book was published in 1765 . |
| 27 | Policemen , armed , filed out of the building and took up position . |
| 28 | At last the Stones were bundled into the building and taken up onto the roof for the promised interview . |
| 29 | He opted for the latter route and took up the gauntlet he saw set before him by steeling himself for a career as a boxer , a career in which he distinguished himself as a man of immense resolve and purposefulness . |
| 30 | Lister was then at the height of his struggle against infection in surgical operations and took up this observation in experiments with bacterial cultures . |