Example sentences of "the [noun prp] pick up [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Scot picked up a double on the sixth end despite failing with a great chance to add a third with his last bowl , drew a match-saving shot on the next end and then produced the shot of the match .
2 The Scot picked up a double on the sixth end despite failing with a great chance to add a third with his last bowl , drew a match-saving shot on the next end and then produced the shot of the match .
3 The NHS picks up the tab , ’ he says .
4 In Germany , Butman notes , the Vectra picked up a magazine award as Auto der Vernuft — sensible or rational car of the year .
5 Looking at the account books — the real ones , not the fabrications served up to the Poles and the League of Nations — it was clear that Danzig 's projected budget for 1934–5 would run at a deficit of over 44 million gulden , which , when added to the employment projects the Nazis needed to keep their supporters in Danzig happy and faithful , would leave the Reichsbank to pick up a bill of over 110 million marks .
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