Example sentences of "take it up [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So takes it up and knits it on the back . |
| 2 | GEORGE ORWELL claimed writing was a curse and nobody should take it up unless driven by inner demons . |
| 3 | It need not be individual life , since in Bilbo 's second version others can take it up and follow it in their turn ; however in Frodo 's and Bilbo 's first version the image of the traveller pursuing the Road looks very like a symbol of the individual pursuing his moment of consciousness down the unknown road which is everyone 's future life , to an end which no one can predict . |
| 4 | He said and we 'll take it up and repair it for you . |
| 5 | Well their Rose , she got a bit on the once when she went up there and she come over here she said to us would we take it up and change . |
| 6 | And then she would listen to them read , well this is what they finished with they 'd have a book and they 'd take it up and she 'd listen to one line ! |
| 7 | Yes , and I 've no doubt that our representative on the A C C will take it up as well again . |
| 8 | If that 's for Clarrie Baudelaire , I 'll take it up if you like . ’ |
| 9 | Well , I certainly will take it up if I get a copy letter , I mean it is obviously that some departments act differently , and I understand that in any case this is only a letter from the secretary , it 's not him , so I mean , I 'm quite happy to take it up if I get the copy of that , and explain that this department act , does rather differently from some of the others . |
| 10 | The congregation were like different parts of a huge engine , each one passing a movement on and the recipient taking it up and changing it . |
| 11 | He took it up and read : ‘ Many readers will probably have learned by now that I am being sued by Miss Hilary Robarts , the Acting Administrative Officer at Larksoken Power Station , for alleged libel arising from what I wrote in the May issue of the news-sheet . |
| 12 | Then , last year , my husband took it up and I thought I 'd have another go .. |
| 13 | He took it up and flew to a stance on one of the wooden buildings round the Park . |
| 14 | Well of course you can guess the rest , I took it up and had it valued and then put in an auction . |
| 15 | Karen says that her mum used to compete as a swimmer , so she took it up and caught the bug . |
| 16 | ‘ Before all this I had never been a fisherman but I have now taken it up and am enjoying it , ’ he said . |
| 17 | It occurs in a book called The Scots Week-end , published by the Carswells in the late 1930s , and crying out for some other publisher to take it up and put it on the market , where it would be grabbed by many eager Scots . |
| 18 | When , in the opening scene , McKendrick tries to initiate a new topic , by referring to the " fictions problem " ( p. 46 ) , Anderson fails to take it up because he fails to realise that McKendrick is referring to the paper which Anderson himself is going to give . |
| 19 | I am looking for a 2hr 8min pace and I prepared to take it up if it falls below that . ’ |
| 20 | Well , I certainly will take it up if I get a copy letter , I mean it is obviously that some departments act differently , and I understand that in any case this is only a letter from the secretary , it 's not him , so I mean , I 'm quite happy to take it up if I get the copy of that , and explain that this department act , does rather differently from some of the others . |