Example sentences of "picked [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Most people finding that the leather handbag they picked up at the school fete was , in fact , plastic would shrug it off if the proceeds of the sale were going to a good cause , ’ said Mr Richards . |
| 2 | Currently , records back to 1986 are on the system , and retrospective cataloguing will be carried out from data picked up at the loans desk when books are issued , so that we will have records for all material in current use . |
| 3 | Carelessness — the thing picked up off the hall mat , thrust into her pocket and forgotten — or deliberate appropriation ? |
| 4 | Erm I thought you had a good structured call , you were focused on business , you obviously picked up on the buying side . |
| 5 | They would be watching the American channels , picked up by the satellite receiver dish on the outskirts of the village . |
| 6 | A premature release of the story in London , picked up by the BBC World Service and the news wire services , led to the University of Utah being inundated with eager news reporters for the press conference . |
| 7 | It has been no more severely shocked than many of the specimens picked up by the Apollo astronauts who journeyed to the Moon to find them . |
| 8 | So far , more than 2,000 bodies picked up in the border area have been sent back to their families . |
| 9 | ALAN SHEARER 'S success at Blackburn Rovers is reflected in the massive signing-on fee he picked up in the record move . |
| 10 | Sheffield Wednesday midfielder John Sheridan has had to withdraw from the Republic squad , following the thigh injury picked up in the FA Cup final replay defeat against Arsenal on Thursday at Wembley . |
| 11 | The Loch Ness Project took on the mantle of the LNI and picked up from the Loch Morar expeditions , and we returned to Loch Ness , whose steep-walled uniformity is more favourable to sonar . |
| 12 | They could see his headlight beam picked out beneath the gas layer , as it swept the area , then lifting up towards them like a searchlight cutting through cloud . |
| 13 | Using paint from the Crown Expressions range , the wall in the foreground and the shutters are in Carmolito F3–80 emulsion , the tongue and grooving and the fireplace is in Caribou K2–100 eggshell , whilst Ponderosa Pine has been used on the wall in the backroom and picked out in the berry stencil . |