Example sentences of "pick up the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Detective-Sergeant 's keen ears had picked up the dripping tap in the bathroom . |
| 2 | I crossed the hall and had actually picked up the offending item before realizing its full implication ; my father , I recalled , had been brushing the entrance hall a half-hour or so earlier . |
| 3 | I much regret that such a new Member of Parliament should have picked up the churlish habits of other Labour Members . |
| 4 | This year it was ever-reliable Tony Humphries who shifted the club world on its axis and demolished the Sound Factory Bar by creating an hour-long mega-mix out of a tune he 'd picked up the previous week during one of his periodical spinning visits to Switzerland . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If the pension funds and insurance companies had waited they could have picked up the same properties at a far lower price . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | as if to prove it , our green-fingered experts have again picked up the top prizes in Aberdeen district council 's gardening competition . |
| 9 | The iron melts , picking up the correct amount of carbon from the coke , and runs out of the tap-hole at the bottom . ’ |
| 10 | Juliette bent down and began picking up the smashed pieces of china . |
| 11 | The reception had told her the Scottish Football team were residents in the hotel which increased her hopes of picking up the odd tip in order to ease her way through University . |
| 12 | ‘ What on earth do you mean ? ’ asked her mother aggressively , picking up the nearest dress to hand . |
| 13 | Ninety per cent of people in residential care in Newcastle are on income support and the average time to death or discharge in residential care is three years , so his department will be picking up the whole burden by the third year . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | MIPS expects a number of its OEMs to pick up the new ARCsystems including CDC , Tandem and government integrator AT&T Federal Systems Advanced Technologies which will put its System V/Multi-Level Secure Unix on the boxes . |
| 17 | Between about 1947 and 1951 , when the Ritz in Sheffield , Alabama was still open , my main encounters with the place — between the ages of four and eight — were on trips with my father across the river to pick up the final reports on the daily receipts on all four of the Rosenbaum theatres our family owned in Sheffield and Tuscumbia . |
| 18 | Yet a team which is happy to pick up the odd win among the world 's soccer minnows went on to better it against an England side with pretensions to be among the best . |
| 19 | GRAHAM TAYLOR is challenging his internationals to pick up the fallen standard of English football , after Wednesday night 's triple European club disaster . |
| 20 | GRAHAM TAYLOR is challenging his internationals to pick up the fallen standard of English football , after Wednesday night 's triple European disaster . |
| 21 | But the red bitch chose that same day to pick up the remaining puppy in her teeth and carry it by the scruff of the neck up the ladder and into the house . |
| 22 | These jelly-filled tubes have electroreceptor cells at their ends , delicate enough to pick up the tiny discharges of the prey 's body . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The collection continues to expand , mostly by donation but a very small purchase grant enables Mr Rosoman to pick up the occasional piece at auction : he recently purchased some papier mache moulds at the Christie 's Crowther sale . |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | But worse still , if the pilot is able to pick up the dropped wing after the initial swing , because of the acceleration the controls suddenly become effective , and this often results in the other wing touching just as the aircraft becomes airborne . |
| 29 | Dot in the conservatory watched as Loopy Lil slowly tried to pick up the unsteady tray of china . |
| 30 | Thus we may write , where t is a random , serially independent variable designed to pick up the random movements in the risk premium . |