1
She laughed out the three exultant words and hurried back to some interrupted task.
2
His mind functioning subconsciously, he took up his interrupted task of driving them to pasture.
3
The poet had been lost in the metaphysician, and he took up his interrupted task without inspiration, putting force upon himself.
4
Mrs. Amberley made a move to follow her daughter, then thought better of it, and, instead, resumed the interrupted task of filling her hypodermic syringe.