Example sentences of "[is] picking [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is not the truth that practically everyone was told , ’ Do n't worry — social security is picking up the bill . ’ |
| 2 | Mark Bottomley is picking up the pieces of his life after being beaten around the head with a piece of scaffolding . |
| 3 | Milton Keynes is picking up the pieces and pleased that at least no one lost a life . |
| 4 | Univel Inc , the Novell Inc/Unix System Labs joint venture for Destiny , is picking up the charter for recruiting the all-important software for the soon-to-debut desktop operating system from USL and this week will announce an early access programme that will get binary code into independent software developers ' hands immediately . |
| 5 | Er , you look she falls , er , two or three rush to her , the stall holder fetches a chair , they 're all round her his son 's picking up the bit she slipped on . |
| 6 | Tommy 's picking up the gun from the living room floor . |
| 7 | Five minutes into the second half , the parry was from the boy was looking for his first goal , and it 's picking up the pieces for his second of the afternoon . |