Example sentences of "pick up [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She led the way into the communal hall which she personally had taken upon herself to brighten up with a vase of dried flowers and a couple of good , but ancient , rugs which she had picked up for a song at an auction sale . |
| 2 | After Arnold died , Nancy , feeling more strongly than ever what she had always known , that he was the only man she had loved , came to live permanently in the house where he had always seemed happiest , a piece of property he had picked up for a song in the sixties from Barone Dulcibene 's father-in-law , old Count Umberto Baderini . |
| 3 | Is there anything that you think needs to be changed , something that you 've picked up as a result of your study you , you feel ought to be changed in the school system ? |
| 4 | It was picked up after a couple of rings . |
| 5 | He also said he is ‘ very optimistic ’ about the NCR computer division , where orders from Europe recently have picked up after a period of extreme softness . |
| 6 | TONY White was picked up within a month of the robbery at his Rotherhithe home , on suspicion of handling . |
| 7 | All of this will have been picked up from a multitude of cues within the family — coyness in speaking about religion , sentimental talk at Christmas-time that equates religion with belief in Santa Claus , contempt for the hypocrisy ( real or imagined ) of religious officials , and the equation of religion with fanaticism and political reaction . |
| 8 | The refugees were picked up by a convoy of buses at the Austrian border . |
| 9 | All the bills were picked up by a consortium of local banks and newspapers . |
| 10 | The flashing light is then picked up by a sensor at the distant end and the information converted first into a corresponding electrical pattern then into sound using an earpiece or loudspeaker . |
| 11 | The pulsing light is picked up by a sensor at the distant end , converted into on-off electrical signals , amplified , fed to an digital-to-analogue converter and the information used to operate an earpiece , loudspeaker or other output device . |
| 12 | They would use incendiary-cum-explosive bombs to disable the aircraft and then retire to a pre-arranged rendezvous point in the desert where they could be picked up by a patrol of the Long Range Desert Group ( LRDG ) . |
| 13 | Once this had been accomplished , the various parties would proceed on foot to an agreed rendezvous in the desert , about forty-five miles inland , where they would be picked up by a patrol of the Long Range Desert Group . |
| 14 | BEIRUT — Syrian forces freed a Lebanese air force pilot who had been picked up by a gunboat after ditching his plane in the Mediterranean yesterday , Reuter reports . |
| 15 | Erm I was going to pick up on a number of points that have been raised by previous speakers , but erm Mr Grigson and Mr Curtis seem to have er dealt with a few of those , erm just with regard to the the table put in by C P R E , with their figures , I would just agree with Mr Cur er Mr Grigson that there is a very substantial degree of double counting in those figures , there is also a very substantial degree of over provision in the allowance for for conversions , er past conversion rates in Greater York have averaged something like twenty nine dwellings per year , over a fifteen year period your talking about four hundred and thirty five dwellings , which is the figure that both York City Council and ourselves have have made allowance for for conversions , that compares with a figure of a thousand dwellings referred to by the C P R E and I see no foundation for that figure , erm , as I say Mr Curtis already picked up on the point about windfalls rates by Mr Thomas , erm just turning to the difference between the tables er submitted by the County Council and York City Council on the the residue within the er Greater York area , I would accept the figure , the figures put in the tables by Mr er by Mr Curtis , I think that they have picked up the the more recent planning permissions and the completions information , and they also take on board there more recent work on erm development within the city , and I I accept that table . |
| 16 | I do n't normally sort of insist on people looking at the , the biographical background for the , but it 's crucial with Donne for you to pick up on a lot of the |
| 17 | Well , perhaps I can say pick up on a couple of points in the discussion . |
| 18 | I just wanted to erm pick up on a couple of points that er people have made in the course of a and responses I think to my er opening statement . |
| 19 | If the other two teams can pick up on a piece of information they missed out , they get a mark and you lose one of your ten . |
| 20 | But in saying that I 'll go ahead , I 'll go ahead with what Robert said although it seems as if erm between us we picked up on a lot of things , there was some objections that Martin threw at you that I thought you handled particularly well . |
| 21 | A little idea I picked up during a sojourn among the dipsomaniacs of Mother Russia . |