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    Use "take up" in a sentence

    take up example sentences

    take up


    1. So anyway, what was the take up rate I hear you enquire? How would


    2. Instead, Janet decides she’s going to take up the hobby of ironing more


    3. Once the event occurs our cooperation to authorities, encouraging the younger lot to provide help to the needy, taking some sort of control to prevent theft and arsons, regulate the crowd that usually collects and hampers rescue efforts and the doctors amongst us to provide urgent medical aid are some of the tasks we can take upon ourselves and thus be relevant for the society even at this age


    4. Now, I’m not going to force you to take up the offer, but at least come and have a look at what’s being proposed … and possibly make it up with Stephen?’


    5. ’ I said, as they take up another story about a prospective wind farm in the Bishop’s Lydiard area


    6. Abdullah and Akbar take up positions on opposite sides of the Rover


    7. Desire - Moses was willing to take upon himself the role of leading the children of Israel


    8. It is because of His willingness to take upon Himself the sin of us all that He was the intercessor for us all


    9. So for Jesus to take up a crown of thorns, He isn’t taking something fruitless and making it fruitful


    10. We need to take up our own crown of thorns

    11. What I want to encourage you with is that when we take up our own crosses for the sake of Israel, we too will feel this same anguish


    12. She had a tray prepared to take upstairs to


    13. "People take up about one thousandth of a square mile each," Desa said, about forty million square miles for all of us


    14. For the most part the good folk who take up the cudgels of representative democracy on our behalf are well meaning, hard working souls armed with the sword of conviction and the shield of dedication


    15. passers-by would see and think and take up the challenge


    16. ‘No? Well, you’ll have to take up a hobby of some sort …’


    17. Tom had vaguely expected that he would at some time take up an


    18. It’s still early and if he is quick he can probably get into the communal bathroom before the girls across the landing take up residence and all of the hot water goes


    19. We can take up the rest of our story and the explanations you have asked for after you've decided for yourself whether it would be of any worth to you


    20. thanks profusely, promising to take up her kind invitation as soon as

    21. “I shouldn’t take up any more of your time with my tales of woe,” he said and started for the door


    22. that seemed to take up the entire width of their faces


    23. Thus far at least seems certain, that, in order to bring up a family, the labour of the husband and wife together must, even in the lowest species of common labour, be able to earn something more than what is precisely necessary for their own maintenance; but in what proportion, whether in that above-mentioned, or many other, I shall not take upon me to determine


    24. He was glad to see that the majority of them had already made it to the ground and were hurrying to take up positions on the city's rooftops


    25. The main problem with headers is they take up valuable


    26. He couldn't afford to let the agency know that he didn't intend to take up their special offer


    27. The most excellent lords the plenipotentiaries promise and take upon themselves, that their above named masters shall ratify this treaty; and within the space of two months the ratification shall be exchanged


    28. At the time he had been angry that a Latino woman would take up with an Anglo


    29. In the morning it is church, where our ten kinfolk take up two pews


    30. To walk it felt so much more strenuous, the weight on his back bouncing and forcing his legs to take up the shock, feet pounding despite the aircushion absorbers on his soles

    31. They bolted the doors and ran to take up places beside the Guardians that were positioned at each window


    32. They were gradually more and more extended, and were divided into many inferior chapters; till at last the doctrine of spirits, of which so little can be known, came to take up as much room in the system of philosophy as the doctrine of bodies, of which so much can be known


    33. ” I stood down from behind the sniper plate thinking that he would take up his rifle and deal with the sniper


    34. In modern law there is no such thing as a “just war,” which is a League of Nations term, but black folks had been wronged and were highly motivated to take up arms


    35. “Is that what you were hoping to do before you decided to take up your current, uhm, profession? Or—” a new idea struck her, “—was that a part of your training for your current profession? Like for spying? You could infiltrate an enemy stronghold and map the terrain and layout for your employer


    36. I decided to take up my spot across the street and see who showed


    37. With the Apartheid Laws, the Liberation Movements decided to take up arms and as we know lost badly during the first attempts where Mr Mandela was arrested


    38. This is especially true for toolbars, since they take up quite a bit of system resources and are usually pretty useless


    39. It takes time to become a fully-fledged member of a terrorist group for it a highly selective process which can take up to a year or more


    40. It troubled me greatly, but when a man decides to take up and AK47 and attack the country of his birth he should not be surprised when the police come after him

    41. Why’d she ever have to take up with that fucking wop, Sal Cassano, anyhow? Before he came along, they were doing great and maybe still would be


    42. He grabbed his and Beth’s bags and dove sideways from the door, scurrying behind a rock, grateful to note that there hadn’t been anyone at the roadblock willing to take up chase across the field of rocks


    43. If that happened, they'll have to wait there for the tide to turn, which could take up to three hours


    44. That is the situation that we find ourselves in as we again take up the parable of Cain and Abel


    45. Later, laymen began to take up this form of fighting, as a form of self-defence, and as a handy qualification to become a soldier, which would also lead to further advancement depending on their ability and talent


    46. are supposed to give Jesus Christ, they take upon themselves


    47. 1 And it came to pass, when the Lord would take up Elijah into Heaven by a whirlwind that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal


    48. So he called her; And when she was come in to him, he said, Take up your


    49. I trusted Christina to take up this mission when I thought I would die, so it seemed stupid not to trust her now


    50. He must take up his burden alone--he must try to be a better, a more watchful father--he must tell his children not to be afraid to come to him with all their little problems














































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    Synonyms for "take up"

    imitate embrace appropriate take over arrogate