Example sentences of "[noun sg] picking up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though still it has all the marks of makeshift industrialisation and decline , with municipalism picking up the pieces , building endless estates of council houses . |
| 2 | The core is aligned with one coil picking up the north-south field and inclined at roughly 67° to the horizontal and adjusted so as to produce the largest positive output from the amplifier . |
| 3 | ‘ What are you doing ? ’ she asked , her heart picking up the pace again . |
| 4 | Fabia felt a nibble of excitement get to her as she ran a comb through her long golden hair , and even found that there were traces of a smile picking up the corners of her mouth . |
| 5 | Panic set in on the twelfth day when , after ‘ lifting ’ milk , a lorry picking up the churns stopped , the driver beckoning Harry . |
| 6 | My life fell apart , but he had no trouble picking up the pieces and forged ahead with a new woman . |
| 7 | I objected in Committee and in the House tonight to his implication — it was not stated in so many words — that the £780 million would be paid locally by the other people in the area picking up the bill for the single-person households . |
| 8 | GGT 's string of new business wins continued this week with the agency picking up the Cussons personal care account . |
| 9 | The grammar school boy did n't have Neville 's sophistication , Greer 's polemic talents , or Widgery 's politics , but he had a grasp of the new generation picking up the paper , and , as he was conclusively to demonstrate in the 1970s , he had a great talent for making money , a loyalty to his friends — and talent for paying bills , eventually . |
| 10 | Once , twice , three times she did it , each time picking up the card and examining it . |
| 11 | Staff and councillors at the town hall have praised the generous efforts of the milkmen who will inevitably have to spend extra time picking up the gifts . |