Example sentences of "pick up 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 | From the corner of her eye , she watched him pick up the first coil of rope . |
| 21 | Pick up the second edge of the band keeping the stitches in the hooks again , then knit them through . |
| 22 | using the yellow latch tool , pick up the left half of the first stitch on the right into the hook . |
| 23 | erm we decided from the start that erm the mums who have their kids in the creche should make some contribution towards the costs ; we 're providing them with a benefit erm but the company picks up the major part of the bill erm but in terms of the output from the additional sewing machinists that we 've got , it 's very , very cost-effective , yes . |
| 24 | If it is at this point that Freud 's theory exceeds itself and is forced beyond the realm of the verifiable into that of speculation , this is also the point at which Such picks up the Freudian way of thinking . |
| 25 | On Friday , Mrs Grant will pick up the 1989 Captain of Industry award from the Livingstone Industrial and Commercial Association . |
| 26 | It is a mark of Hilton 's clarity of thought and practical spirituality that he should pick up the episcopal ideal of a composite life-style and set it up as the modus vivendi for a spiritually — minded temporal lord . |
| 27 | For Clelia was , as she had claimed , a good audience : she listened with an attention that picked up the faintest vibrations of meaning . |
| 28 | Satan , in his accustomed place in the lead , came to a stop as he picked up the first trace of man-scent . |
| 29 | She picked up the first box of jars and went back to the room . |
| 30 | I picked up The New Principles of Gardening , a leather-bound tome by Batty Langley ( d. 1751 ) and wondered when she would have been b . |