took up

There was a large surface area that he took up!

After closing the last one, in 1979, she moved to Provincetown, at the tip of Cape Cod, where she took up odd jobs to support her new career as a painter.

To support himself during his studies, he took up jobs as a taxi driver and cleaner.

They took up Morris dancing despite having no family background in it.

It took up just one square metre on a pallet but represented two years of effort and had a wholesale value of £35,000.