Example sentences of "[noun] picks up the [noun] " in BNC.

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31 The bolt-rig works like this : the carp picks up the bait by sucking it into its mouth , but on the outward journey , when it blows to eject it , the hook point ( which is bare in a hair-rig remember ) pricks the carp 's mouth .
32 The PLAYER picks up the coin .
33 A curved position-sensitive detector picks up the X-rays diffracted by the sample while its transmission spectrum is recorded by a photodiode array .
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