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

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1 The monitor picks up the amount of ultraviolet or UV rays coming from the sun .
2 The minibus picks up the Inspirals party outside the hotel in Japantown , San Francisco at 10.30 the next morning , a Sunday .
3 The new act picks up the Warnock comments that really the majority of children can probably be erm accommodated in ordinary schools , but there will always be a need for special schools , and in fact they do mention some proportions .
4 The NHS picks up the tab , ’ he says .
5 Constantine picks up the thread .
6 GRIPPING SCENE : Proud pop picks up the tot he once refused to carry
7 One advantage of using a hearing-aid is in hearing one 's own voice ‘ from the outside ’ — the aid microphone picks up the voice of the user as well as voices of other people .
8 The first player in each team picks up the feather by inhaling through the straw .
9 Vic picks up the receiver .
10 If the person picks up the keys , then he or she can become the next sleeping beauty .
11 The back person picks up the ball and runs to the front .
12 Every day , at 10am , Grachev picks up the telephone to Yeltsin and speaks for five minutes .
13 Rainbow picks up the cue :
14 The Quartet picks up the novel where Thru leaves it , dissected and decentred in vitro , and returns it to the social and historical context out of which it arose .
15 John Ward picks up the story
16 The board picks up the signal , and translates it into digital data , which is then stored as a data file on the computer 's hard disk .
17 Hampden Babylon picks up the challenge , but shifts the spotlight away from Hollywood and its tinsel stardom to the less glamorous football grounds of Scotland , where a cast list of rogues , reprobates and reckless drivers star in the most squalid film never made .
18 The phototransistor picks up the light emitted by the l.e.d. in the transmitter section and converts it into an analogue electrical signal .
19 Final sentence ( which sums up the paragraph ) : ( 4 ) In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald picks up the theme : the valley of ashes is the general locale , all the characters of the story have to pass through it .
20 Tommy picks up the Magnum and fires it twice at the stereo , one bullet in each cassette deck .
21 Fielding picks up the cheques , too .
22 Fielding picks up the checks .
23 From Deleuze and Guattari , Lecercle picks up the idea of the potential violence of the institution of language which , as they point out , is not so much a neutral entity that can best be analysed by looking at " normal " ( i.e. declarative ) sentences as a series of other people 's slogans organised into a system of power-relations .
24 Iain picks up the stereo and walks out .
25 Classic examples of awkward questions are the salesman 's special dread , as the interviewer picks up the telephone directory and says , ‘ Sell me this ’ , and the totally unpredictable , ‘ What star sign are you ? ’
26 Hong Kong Special Report : After the traumas , the colony picks up the pieces
27 When one of the firm 's 600 taxis passes within 600 metres , its receiver picks up the code , stores it in memory , and simultaneously relays it back to base .
28 This book picks up the story from there , although it is written by a different author .
29 Certainly the kind of modern-day would-be Kerouac who survives entirely on the proceeds from trading-in free albums and indulging in the fine art of ‘ ligging ’ — tagging along to any show in town where the record company picks up the catering bill — is not extinct .
30 For example , the hospital treatments that GPs can purchase were limited to standard relatively inexpensive procedures which the GP could easily diagnose and cost ; the costs a practice would bear for any one patient were limited to a maximum of £5,000 ( after this the DHA picks up the bill ) , and finally entry to the scheme was limited to large , well-managed practices .
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