Example sentences of "pick up [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The four were Donna Maguire , arrested in Turnhout , Belgium , on June 16 , who was wanted in connexion with attacks in West Germany in 1989 ; Gerard Majella Harte , arrested over the Dutch border on June 16 , after evading Belgian police near Turnhout , with a man provisionally named as Michael Collins who escaped in handcuffs but was later picked up over the Dutch border in Chaam , on June 18 ; and Paul Hughes , who drove through a police checkpoint in Chaam on June 18 and was arrested there on June 19 .
2 The returning echoes are believed to be picked up through the fatty interior of the lower jaw .
3 It was picked up on the fourth ring by an answerphone .
4 Most of the cost will at first be picked up at the federal level , but the BMFT will gradually reduce its share of financial support over the eight years .
5 An emissary from London to St Petersburg was picked up at the imperial frontier and a large number of compromising letters fell into the hands of tsarist investigators .
6 The phone was picked up at the other end and Charles pressed his two p into the coinbox .
7 Well you 've got another two or three hours on the journey , but having said tha well if you get picked up at the other end it 's not too bad .
8 David Ormerod , a geology lecturer at the Open University , has been held in Oradea , Romania , for the past three days , after being picked up at the main crossing point into Hungary .
9 ‘ But my advice is not to panic and to wait and see how many tickets can be picked up at the last minute . ’
10 Similarly it seems unlikely that the reader will bother to construct a three-dimensional , photographic representation of ‘ the baby ’ which cries in the first sentence and which is picked up in the second sentence .
11 We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place
12 I should say I hardly recognised him but scarcely is the word I have picked up in the strange places to which Sebastian and I have journeyed .
13 Since a few ladies who had been at the tea would also be at the committee meeting , and , anyway , Boyd had messed up her best black afternoon dress , she wore now a pretty gown in green wool which she had picked up in the last sale at Eaton 's .
14 ‘ But to suggest that coincidentally this recording , made just a fortnight earlier , was also picked up in the same way does stretch one 's credibility . ’
15 Er but I do n't believe it 's worthwhile doing manual on the cases , they will get picked up in the next data support run which runs two weeks afterwards , that 'll be erm beginning of May .
16 I have what I believe to be a very important piece of information for marine fish keepers which I have picked up from the marine scene in the USA .
17 There is no mistaking the physical menace in the soft but grinding discord which announces Balstrode 's " Look , the storm cone " , or the thrill of fear in his fugue theme " Now the flood tide " [ 7 ] , with its opening minor second , which is picked up by the entire chorus and worked into one of those overwhelming Verdian ensembles which climax the first scene of each act .
18 This philosophy of helping elderly people return to or stay in their own or small-scale homes will be picked up by the new centres .
19 This explanation of urban poverty in terms of ‘ perverse incentives ’ is being picked up by the right wing in Britain and used as the basis for proposals for new policies and regulations regarding unemployment benefit , income support , and housing entitlement as they apply to lone mothers .
20 She had no way of knowing that her friend had been picked up by the Communist Maquis with whom she was now living .
21 The various whirrings and whinings which may be emitted by the camcorder itself , not to mention any noises which you make while operating the controls , are liable to be faithfully picked up by the on-board microphone .
22 Already re-invented by top international designers , the short skirt will undoubtedly be picked up by the high street stores , and once again start to look new .
23 Already re-invented by top international designers , the short skirt will undoubtedly be picked up by the high street stores , and once again start to look new .
24 Any ferret can carry the transmitting device that provides the signal to be picked up by the hand-held locator .
25 Now she sees many of the ideas being picked up by the commercial companies with which she had dealings because they believe it brings new talent into the industry .
26 The State Department in Washington still must decide what to do with the migrants , apparently picked up by the Panamanian-registered East Wood from an island off China to be smuggled to Hawaii .
27 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 .
28 Although the ex the special allowance was actually withdrawn , but nevertheless , the responsibility for generally dealing with it , was picked up by the local authority .
29 End date it 's picking up off the same list .
30 Picking up on the head maltster 's request for co-operation in Audience , Pryce-Jones wrote , ‘ Will Ferdinand help , and kindly inform on himself ?
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