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"Take up" in a Sentence (30 examples)
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.
I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.
Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking: […]
We're going to have to take up the floorboards.
It is hereby ordered, adjudged and decreed that a temporary writ of injunction issue, enjoining said defendant and all persons acting under or for it, from in any manner taking up, disturbing or interfering with the road-bed and track of said plaintiff so as to prevent the passage of cars thereon
They had pickaxes in their hands and wore corduroy trousers and that little leather band below the knee that goes by the astonishing name of “York-to-London.” They seemed to be working with peculiar vehemence, so that I stopped and asked one what they were doing. “We are taking up Picadilly,” he said to me.
Passenger traffic was subsequently discontinued, and early in the recent war a considerable amount of the permanent way at the Treforest end of the railway was taken up.
If we take up the sleeves a bit, that shirt will look much better on you.
The reel automatically took up the slack.
The books on finance take up three shelves.
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All my time is taken up with looking after the kids.
She is popular with passengers as an all-weather vessel, but rather the reverse with yachtsmen as she has at times proved somewhat unwieldy, and certainly takes up a good deal of space in the narrow channels.
She took up her post at the foot of the stairs.
I’ve taken up knitting.
I wish to take up mathematics.
Recently, I have taken up the double bass again, but because time and neglect erode ability, calluses turn soft, and muscle memory fades, I need to woodshed (practice) to get back into shape and build up my chops.
Each of the things he took up, he took up with passion and intensity
He took up his post as assistant director last Friday.
Let’s take this up with the manager.
While such social effects have not gone entirely unquestioned, most critical work on the topic of childhood innocence […] has focused on the regulation of children's sexual agency. Here, I take up the notion of childhood innocence to examine how, in the US context, it regulates race relations by producing a particular "childhood" that perpetuates White supremacy.
I never said thank you for taking up our case.
Shall we take them up on their offer to help us move?
They took up the cry of their oppressed compatriots.
Let’s take up where we left off.
So I’d imagine if they were to take up this system, or a similar system, we should be able to build quicker.
You have 30 minutes for the quiz. We’ll take up the answers at 1 o'clock.
Also, the grade 12’s in the class were also called down to the cafeteria from 9:30 am to about 9:50 am, so they missed class when I took up some of the worksheets.
Can someone in CSCC37 (mustafa's tutorial!) email me the solution to the midterm? (the tutorial right after the midterm where he took up the solutions)
The police took up the suspect.
[…] he talked strangely of Mr. Law […] wearing a pair of stockings that a ploughman would not have picked off a dunghill; upon which last expression I took him up for saying that Mr. Law carried his expression beyond truth, when he himself exposed what he thought wrong with so much vivacity, and Dr. Hartley said that he thought there I had him; […]
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