Example sentences of "[noun prp] picks [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NHS picks up the tab , ’ he says . |
| 2 | Constantine picks up the thread . |
| 3 | Vic picks up the receiver . |
| 4 | Every day , at 10am , Grachev picks up the telephone to Yeltsin and speaks for five minutes . |
| 5 | John Ward picks up the story … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Tommy picks up the Magnum and fires it twice at the stereo , one bullet in each cassette deck . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Iain picks up the stereo and walks out . |