Example sentences of "pick [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I much regret that such a new Member of Parliament should have picked up the churlish habits of other Labour Members . |
| 2 | From the same papyri we learn that the Ptolemies had picked up the well-known Sheikh of Transjordan , Tobiah , to command the military settlers in his territory . |
| 3 | Below the soft throb of the music , his increased sense of hearing had picked up the quiet click of the outer door to his private suite being closed . |
| 4 | The iron melts , picking up the correct amount of carbon from the coke , and runs out of the tap-hole at the bottom . ’ |
| 5 | Juliette bent down and began picking up the smashed pieces of china . |
| 6 | Because i it is assumed management is learned by picking up the bad habits of your predecessor and their predecessors for the last five hundred years . |
| 7 | As he went up behind her , step by step , eyes fixed on the sensuous movements of her dark young limbs , he half noticed the seemingly inordinate number of doors which opened on to the landings and he could not avoid picking up the predominating odour of curry . |
| 8 | GRAHAM TAYLOR is challenging his internationals to pick up the fallen standard of English football , after Wednesday night 's triple European club disaster . |
| 9 | GRAHAM TAYLOR is challenging his internationals to pick up the fallen standard of English football , after Wednesday night 's triple European disaster . |
| 10 | These jelly-filled tubes have electroreceptor cells at their ends , delicate enough to pick up the tiny discharges of the prey 's body . |
| 11 | I never understood why we got in the tangled bureaucratic mess of the community charge to pick up the tiny amount of 3 million out of 42.5 million people . |
| 12 | He worked with scarcely a break to search out a new passage in the files , or to pick up the half-smoked end of his last cigarette from the ashtray , stub it out , light a new one , and put it down in its place . |
| 13 | Another problem which electric fish have circumvented is that very sensitive receptors are needed to pick up the weak signals of other fish , and such receptors would be swamped by the fish 's own field . |
| 14 | He must have felt it too — how could he not when he was so close ; how could he fail to pick up the reckless drumming of her senses ? |
| 15 | Dot in the conservatory watched as Loopy Lil slowly tried to pick up the unsteady tray of china . |
| 16 | In the grey morning light , Clare , still in her nightgown , stooped to pick up the little bottle of sleeping pills from the floor . |
| 17 | Having come to terms with the failure of her marriage , she was trying to pick up the broken bits of her pride , glue them together , and get on with her life . |
| 18 | She looked round the hall , then bent to pick up the broken remains of a photo frame . |
| 19 | Barbara looked up as she dragged Jimmy to one side , and saw Duvall stoop to pick up the broken neck of the whisky bottle that she had dropped . |
| 20 | Saturday 's goal was the product of some poor defending by Celtic and the alertness of Mason in picking out the ginger nut of Alex McLeish , but , again , they relied on a defender to score . |
| 21 | Richard had already been remarked as the kind of small boy enchanted by small girls and deaf to the ridicule of his peers on the matter ; on this occasion he watched Victoria twist her curls around her fingers in motionless fascination for ten minutes , then followed her for the rest of the afternoon , fetching drinks and finding seats , carrying her favourite blue rabbit when she dropped it and picking out the choicest pieces of bread and butter for her at tea . |
| 22 | It has to work through the agency of its possessors , and especially by picking out the weak points of their characters — possessiveness in Bilbo , fear in Frodo , patriotism in Boromir , pity in Gandalf . |
| 23 | He remembered the lights of the car at last picking out the yearned-for shape of the cottage . |
| 24 | Picking out the salient points of a lengthy report , making a positive contribution to a formal meeting or an informal social gathering ; making an effective presentation or negotiating a deal that will stick … |
| 25 | From the corner of her eye , she watched him pick up the first coil of rope . |
| 26 | Pick up the second edge of the band keeping the stitches in the hooks again , then knit them through . |
| 27 | using the yellow latch tool , pick up the left half of the first stitch on the right into the hook . |
| 28 | After asking them all about their latest film , their hobbies , their lovers , wives , husbands , children , and anything else of interest , our researchers will come back with their tape-recorded notes , pick out the best bits of their interview and write up a biography . |
| 29 | You pick out the chief traits of the book of yore or the time of yore you fancy and you bring these to the fore . |
| 30 | All three pick out the major features of the population density variation across northern Leicestershire but , of course , as they stand they are impossible to validate in any direct way . |