Example sentences of "picked up [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year , it acquired the small Abbots and Sussex dairies , also based in the south , and in January picked up part of the Co-operative Wholesale Society 's milk distribution business . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , during journeys to Palestine and to Egypt , I picked up copies of The Dry Salvages and Little Gidding . |
| 3 | We parked in the car park and picked up copies of the RSPB-designed trail leaflet at the Visitor Centre , a converted stone chapel . |
| 4 | Passengers were ordered off as the double-decker picked up casualties from the Welcome Inn at Eltham , London . |
| 5 | In the hour before dawn , when the pulsar had risen above the horizon and the sky was still dark , they picked up pulsations at the correct rate — and , as confirmation , found them again the following morning . |
| 6 | As they picked up speed along the main tarmac road it was already 3 a.m . |
| 7 | News stories overlapped : morning paper headlines took account of the previous evening 's radio and TV stories , and the electronic media picked up items from the daily press ( all these developments , indeed , applied to radio as well as to TV ) . |
| 8 | It was fifteen days before Isambard 's inconspicuous agents in Pool and about the hospitable courtyard of Strata Marcella picked up traces of the Welsh marauders . |