Example sentences of "[adj] to pick [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've found that in Berlin it 's not polite to pick up the phone and offer a painting . |
| 2 | Many of those present had found it hard to pick up the thread of what he was saying and instead had thought with a shiver : " Needles driven into your belly ! |
| 3 | One of the big British cable-makers — BICC , GEC or STC — looks likely to pick up the £20 million order . |
| 4 | So , be sure to pick out the campanile of San Gottardo , to the south beyond the Palazzo Reale , the Sforza castle , to the north-west , Corso Vittorio Emanuele II running away to the north-east , the Torre Velasca to the south and , if the weather is reasonable , the San Siro football stadium far away to the west . |
| 5 | So it was that — ill-equipped , ignoring all warnings , and unable to pick up the BBC World Service on our radio — we confronted El Jocoso without guides and in a thunderstorm . |
| 6 | One old chap wrapped his set in aluminium cooking foil and put clingfilm over the screen , thinking the detector van would be unable to pick up the signals . |
| 7 | but all d all different meanings and they could pick out and I said well erm it would er be handy for foreign people to have a speaking dictionary because they would be able to pick up the pronunciation of that word would n't they ? |
| 8 | yeah , to see if that car 's been sold , stolen or whatever and yet a solicitor come he said your solicitor will be able to pick up the phone , take you through the right channels , see if he 's sold that car , he has n't sold the car , who 's he sold it |
| 9 | They were the lucky ones , able to pick up the pieces of a warm family life that they feared had gone forever . |
| 10 | This hopefully will cause them a fixture congestion around April/May with us hopefully been able to pick up the pieces . |
| 11 | Everybody says , ‘ Oh , you won £44,000 in the world championships , you must 've been really pleased with that , ’ but it 's not just the money , it 's being able to pick up the trophy at the end — that 's the nice thing . |
| 12 | So , even if bitten or scratched by a cat that had somehow smeared its teeth or claws with infected blood from its sores , the human victim would still not be able to pick up the disease . |
| 13 | Judges ought , when they are pre-reading a case , to be able to pick up the skeleton argument , and they ought actually to be able to start with the skeleton argument , which would tell them in very succinct form the background facts and what the points are . |
| 14 | The dense blackness lifted a little and they were able to pick out the skyline and the dim glow of white-edged pavements and white-ringed lampposts . |
| 15 | Owen was able to pick out the speaker . |
| 16 | The structure of Angevin rule in Aquitaine had been severely shaken by the Young King 's intervention , but once he was gone it was not difficult to pick up the pieces . |
| 17 | What I need most is something strong and sharp to pick out the cement between the stones with . |
| 18 | He is keen to pick up the pieces again . |
| 19 | He did two more West End comedies , neither of which lasted three months , and theatre managements were suddenly less anxious to pick up the phone and plead with his agent . |
| 20 | She could only be ready to pick up the pieces if and when required . |