Example sentences of "have been pick up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | How is he to measure it against ‘ Look before you leap ’ , ‘ Care for your parents ’ , and such other imperatives as he has been picking up on the way ? |
| 2 | Glancing at his watch , Donaldson saw that it was after five ; seven hours since he 'd been picked up at the courtroom , during which time he 'd skipped lunch and spent his afternoon handing tidbits to a bright primate . |
| 3 | Instead , it lists a range of different losses which , the writs served on the two firms last March allege , should have been picked up during the course of the audits . |
| 4 | Lead from petrol bought outside the Turin area would not have been picked up in the study . |
| 5 | How else could it be so swiftly known that a prominent member of the Royal College of Acupuncturists , say , had been picked up during the night and pinched for drunk-driving ? |
| 6 | The water had been picked up in the Humber estuary and used as ballast . |
| 7 | She had no way of knowing that her friend had been picked up by the Communist Maquis with whom she was now living . |
| 8 | There would have been an enormous panic when they realised that the Irish girl had been picked up by the Bonnards . |
| 9 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
| 10 | It 's worth mentioning too , that during the year , er , Dr Tim , the general practitioner , who is seconded with er , Social Services , has been doing work on hospital discharge , making sure that the arrangements are , are working , and his reports have been picked up by the respective authorities , and , er , there has er , a sort of action plan has been put together , which is , which is intended to try to improve the er , existing hospital discharge arr arrangement , making sure that people are discharged from hospital and that the er , right type of care is available for them in , in the community . |
| 11 | Disposal of our domestic rubbish is something we tend to forget about once it 's been picked up by the dust-cart . |
| 12 | That was rotten , now Mr Coombes feels there 's something rotten about how it 's been picked up by the planners . |