Example sentences of "[verb] up [noun sg] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once it was finished we went outside and swept round the entire barrack block in an extended line , picking up litter from the damp grass . |
| 2 | It is , however , still very easy to pick up tufa from the latter on the coast of East Africa , to which it took 6 months to float across the Indian Ocean . |
| 3 | By a curious paradox , the nuclear lobby has a vested interest in ensuring maximum coal burn in UK power plant as an alternative to stepping up output from the new generation of gas-fired power plant . |
| 4 | Yet it is intriguing that on that day , he cut between Mary in the redoubt of her fells , puzzling over this ominous invasion of her feelings , and John-Augustus on the lake , drawing up char from the deep and cold lake , re-experiencing the failed innocence of his life . |
| 5 | As the horses trotted past , kicking up gravel from the rough road , women in dark-brown shawls picked up their babies and shouted at their children to come inside — as though strangers from the east were liable to spell trouble . |
| 6 | This benefit allows you to deduct the years when you were required to give up work from the normal qualifying period for a basic pension and so , in effect , shorten the number of years when you would otherwise have been required to make contributions . |
| 7 | The sleeping-bag began to soak up tea from the steaming groundsheet , and I screamed , ‘ Damn ! |