Example sentences of "took up a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the best descriptions of the landscape of Madeira is that given by White and Johnson ( Madeira. : Its Climate and Scenery , 1860 ) : ‘ When Columbus was asked by Queen Isabella to give her some notion of the configuration of Jamaica , it is said that he took up a sheet of paper , and after crushing it in his hand , partly opened it out ; then placing it on the table , he told her Majesty that she would derive a better idea of the island from the crumpled paper than from any description conveyed in words . |
| 2 | But there were mistakes and sometimes a wrong tune was precented which did not fit the words , and on one or two occasions the congregation took up a tune of their own which was not intended in my precenting . |
| 3 | Robert took up a position on the boundary , fairly near to the maths master . |
| 4 | In October 1911 he took up a position as pupil and lay assistant to the Revd Herbert Wigan , the vicar of Dunsden , near Reading . |
| 5 | Soon afterwards she took up a position at the hospital . |
| 6 | She straightened , took up a position at his side , adjusted her feet in a v like a ballerina in first Position and , holding out the panels of her skirt , nodded to him to begin . |
| 7 | Edward took up a position at the door-post . |
| 8 | Forster took up a position with his back to the bows , wedging himself into a corner as Delaney tried the ship 's telephone again , speaking slowly and deliberately . |
| 9 | Here I took up a position with the grand title of ‘ Consultant ’ . |
| 10 | The narrator took up a position to one side of the loudspeaker , and the listeners were challenged to guess which was which as alternate lines were delivered . |
| 11 | The strong Auckland group within the team took up a position of influence . |
| 12 | She then went to Victoria Station and bought a return ticket to Epsom , where she took up a position in the pressing crowd on the inside rails at Tattenham Corner , a few yards before the runners reach the straight . |
| 13 | Most of my friends collapsed thankfully on to their beds , but I slunk down the long flights of stone stairs and took up a position in the foyer where I could watch the front door . |
| 14 | The government forces took up a position near Tranent , ten miles [ 16 km ] east of Edinburgh , just inland from the village of Prestonpans on the Firth of Forth . |
| 15 | It was dark when we took up a position among thick briars and long grass . |
| 16 | Malone absorbed the pressure and against the run of play took up a position inside their opponents 22 . |
| 17 | Five minutes later a passenger aircraft appeared overhead and took up a hold at 7,000 feet . |
| 18 | ‘ So I took up a hold on 210 overhead the ditched pilot using Rate 1s as crosswind and base legs . |
| 19 | He subsequently served as Chief Royal Engineer of 1st Airborne Division in Normandy , and after the Second World War took up a string of staff appointments . |
| 20 | Nothing is known of him until , at the age of fourteen , he took up a sort of apprenticeship with a widow near Lowestoft . |
| 21 | He emigrated to Washington D.C. with his wife and two young sons , John and Philip , and took up a job as cornet player with the Barnum & Bailey Circus band . |
| 22 | He and took up a career as a TV commentator with Murray Walker and was recently reported to have cash problems . |
| 23 | Bremner is one of many Scottish players who made a remarkable transformation when he took up a career in management . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Soon afterwards his father took up a post as superintendent with the Electric Telegraph Company in London . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He took up a post as an executive with a engineering firm before winning the South Edinburgh seat in a by-election in 1957 . |