Example sentences of "pick up [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once it was finished we went outside and swept round the entire barrack block in an extended line , picking up litter from the damp grass . |
| 2 | In view of the fact that eye testing is important in picking up illness in the elderly and that we are in the business of preventive medicine rather than treating illnesses when they occur , will my hon. Friend keep an open mind ? |
| 3 | She thought she saw the Germans still working in the fields , and now they were picking up potatoes from the muddy ground . |
| 4 | The recession has clearly presented good buying opportunities to Prospect Industries though Philip Wilbraham denies he is a vulture purchaser who has been picking up bargains on the cheap . |
| 5 | The carrying of hand coils is only appropriate on snow arêtes ( as explained above ) , or on rock ridges of uneven difficulty , where party speed is increased by members picking up coils on the easy sections . |
| 6 | As the Oliver Sachs figure , he was awkward , introverted , Chaplinesque and observant , picking up clues on the mental state of his patients , which had been overlooked by worldlier colleagues . |
| 7 | Niki Lauda displayed courage beyond all recognition in 1976 when , six weeks after being given the Last Rites , he was back behind the wheel of his Ferrari picking up points in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza . |
| 8 | So if you 're picking up children from the Primary School in Lane Derby , there 's cable-laying going on in Street , Lane and Street . |
| 9 | He finished in some style , picking up birdies at the last four holes . |
| 10 | It is , however , still very easy to pick up tufa from the latter on the coast of East Africa , to which it took 6 months to float across the Indian Ocean . |
| 11 | ARABLE farmers seeking to optimise returns from their crops will be able to pick up tips at the two-day Cereal ‘ 93 National Cereals and Combinable Crops Event , which gets under way tomorrow . |
| 12 | And , according to Mrs Aitken , Jake had no objections , so arrangements were made for Carol 's parents to pick up Kirsty on the appointed day . |
| 13 | They often pick up stories in the national news . |
| 14 | It 's a thankless task then , because despite having become the most successful band of the time , you pick up flak for the next album not working commercially . |
| 15 | In Alton Locke Kingsley takes the reader into a house like the ones depicted by Godwin with the caption given ( Fig. 35 ) , where the rushlight picks up reflections through the broad chinks in the floorboards of the sewer below . |
| 16 | She picks up speed in the late evening , after most of the passengers have eaten . |
| 17 | Last year , it acquired the small Abbots and Sussex dairies , also based in the south , and in January picked up part of the Co-operative Wholesale Society 's milk distribution business . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , during journeys to Palestine and to Egypt , I picked up copies of The Dry Salvages and Little Gidding . |
| 19 | We parked in the car park and picked up copies of the RSPB-designed trail leaflet at the Visitor Centre , a converted stone chapel . |
| 20 | Passengers were ordered off as the double-decker picked up casualties from the Welcome Inn at Eltham , London . |
| 21 | In the hour before dawn , when the pulsar had risen above the horizon and the sky was still dark , they picked up pulsations at the correct rate — and , as confirmation , found them again the following morning . |
| 22 | As they picked up speed along the main tarmac road it was already 3 a.m . |
| 23 | News stories overlapped : morning paper headlines took account of the previous evening 's radio and TV stories , and the electronic media picked up items from the daily press ( all these developments , indeed , applied to radio as well as to TV ) . |
| 24 | It was fifteen days before Isambard 's inconspicuous agents in Pool and about the hospitable courtyard of Strata Marcella picked up traces of the Welsh marauders . |