Example sentences of "pick up the [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " 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 | If the pension funds and insurance companies had waited they could have picked up the same properties at a far lower price . |
| 3 | as if to prove it , our green-fingered experts have again picked up the top prizes in Aberdeen district council 's gardening competition . |
| 4 | Juliette bent down and began picking up the smashed pieces of china . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | These jelly-filled tubes have electroreceptor cells at their ends , delicate enough to pick up the tiny discharges of the prey 's body . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Thus we may write , where t is a random , serially independent variable designed to pick up the random movements in the risk premium . |
| 11 | From these results , it would appear that the younger children were not able to pick up the linguistic cues to the deductive/empirical distinction contained in the experimenter 's questions . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She looked round the hall , then bent to pick up the broken remains of a photo frame . |
| 14 | There they pick up the little grubs in their jaws and carry them back to the building site . |
| 15 | be , it may be that we need to get over to the States , to , to , erm pick up the technical vibes from there , but is the state , er our people in the States are n't in with . |
| 16 | For Clelia was , as she had claimed , a good audience : she listened with an attention that picked up the faintest vibrations of meaning . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The correspondent of The Times in Riga , with access to both current Western and Soviet sources , picked up the discrepant views of M. Litvinov at the Hague and L. Krasin , the Commissar for Trade in Moscow . |
| 19 | And little , twinkly Claus Korth , captain of U.93 with a crew of forty-four , described poetically how he picked up the forty-nine survivors of a Bismarck supply ship , the Belchen , and brought his heavily overloaded boat back to France . |
| 20 | Then he picked up the fainter smells of buttercups and horses . |
| 21 | She picked up The Social Aspects of Illness . |