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Undertook

verb

Simple past tense of undertake

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The work that Snow, who was born 200 years ago last Friday, undertook to prove his case remains a classic of medical detection and reveals Snow as one of the founders of epidemiology, a science that has since helped unravel the causes of a host of illnesses and saved countless lives.

I studied at university for seven years, undertook unpaid internships and have a career development loan at a figure that would cover the deposit for a pretty decent house.

The biography sensitively uncovers the facts of an unusual life that Fitzgerald was reticent about and reveals the voluminous research she undertook, then used economically in novels that appear simple on the surface but are complex masterpieces.

The barrister said the outcome of the inquiry came as a genuine surprise to him after Lawler undertook to give advance notice of any adverse findings against his client but had not.

He also undertook reconnaissance missions in the UK and US in 2000 and 2001, during which he filmed buildings including the International Monetary Fund and World Bank headquarters in Washington DC, the stock exchange and Citigroup in New York and the Prudential insurance premises in Newark, New Jersey.

He undertook a large volume of constituency work and served on the Northern Ireland affairs committee at Westminster.

The deputy coroner, Thomas Osborne, denounced the understaffing in the maternity unit at Milton Keynes General hospital as "nothing short of scandalous" and undertook to write to ministers about it.

The social psychologist Peter Marsh, who has died aged 67, was fearless in the investigations he undertook.

Because of Snowden, we now know that the listeners undertook to do what they repeatedly promised respectable expert opinion they would never do.

We took swift action; 10 members expelled or retired, and we undertook reforms.

It is disturbing that the few detailed answers obtained about who exactly undertook that review had to come by way of a Freedom of Information request, not by an immediate and voluntary statement from the Office for Nuclear Regulation ONRR).

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