Example sentences of "[vb base] to pick up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone want to pick up the ball and run with it and would question whether it is considered necessary and does it give you sufficient guidance at strategic level ? |
| 2 | The staff will stay on until the parents arrive to pick up the children . |
| 3 | To the accompaniment of one of Alan Dell 's Big Band programmes Patrick told Peter Jennings about the murder and the theft of the letters , the switched bodies and his decision to come out to Romania and try to pick up the scent of John and Angela Bonnard . |
| 4 | Camcorder microphones are contrary devices : sometimes they fail to pick up the sounds that they should , and sometimes they hear things that they should n't . |
| 5 | Two things spring to mind as and friends start to pick up the pieces and reorientate themselves . |
| 6 | THE new pack leader , Gareth Llewellyn , yesterday sounded a call to arms as a reshaped Wales prepare to pick up the pieces against France in Paris tomorrow . |
| 7 | If you want any more details at all , you just need to pick up the phone and call us here at the Trent F M Careline on |
| 8 | Obviously then we need to pick up the appraisal system , and I think what I 'll have to do with that , is as the targets kep co start coming in , erm we 'll have to set up some sort of system , preferably I suspect computerized . |
| 9 | If any of my staff or myself can be of help with a future motoring need , you only have to pick up the phone or call in and see us and we will ensure your total satisfaction . |
| 10 | Loathing the expressionism and abstractions that surround him during his time at Newcastle , where he studied in the late Sixties , he believes ‘ you have to pick up the traces . |
| 11 | The students have to pick up the threads of the conversation , to make sense of it , and to make a contribution — if they wish — in their own way . |
| 12 | It is we , after all , who have to pick up the pieces and begin again the struggle to live our lives with dignity , and in freedom from arbitrary and authoritarian policing . |
| 13 | So we have to pick up the pieces on this one . ’ |
| 14 | As proved by history , women are the ones who have to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of war . |
| 15 | Now the players have to pick up the pieces . ’ |
| 16 | A particular type of credit and money-management education is that needed for the people who unfortunately have to pick up the pieces when consumers get into difficulties over credit use : consumer and community advisers , citizens ' advice bureaux staff , social workers , even probation officers . |
| 17 | The R S P C A have to pick up the pieces and they 've launched a campaign to try and stop it and joining me now is Alan . |
| 18 | The military and large corporations control Congress and the president while the American people have to pick up the tax bill to finance it all . |