Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] pick [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was fifteen days before Isambard 's inconspicuous agents in Pool and about the hospitable courtyard of Strata Marcella picked up traces of the Welsh marauders . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | With judging under way for the Scottish Marketing Awards , KAY BLAIR picks out some entries worthy of a mention in dispatches |
| 4 | When Rosa had taken the tray Luce picked up the crutch and practised hobbling round the bedroom . |
| 5 | As Forest formed a human barricade on their goal line Andy Hinchcliffe picked out the only available scoring spot . |
| 6 | An aid worker in Jordanian refugee camps ca n't get a TV crew from the West interested in tens of thousands of people from the ‘ Third World ’ who are about to die from starvation — all the crews are off watching Richard Branson pick up a couple of hundred westerners in one of his Virgin Jumbo Jets . |
| 7 | The night raids with a few sporadic bangs and our own guns , and twice a silver Zeppelin picked out by a search light , seemed fun — because we all came downstairs and stayed up late and were n't expected to be bright at school next morning . |
| 8 | When Estella finally came , with her candle , along the dark passage , Miss Havisham picked up a jewel from her table and put it in Estella 's hair . |
| 9 | Carbon monoxide picks up an electron ( is reduced ) to form the radical anion CO which reacts further with another CO or with carbon monoxide itself to form oxocarbon anions . |
| 10 | One advantage of using a hearing-aid is in hearing one 's own voice ‘ from the outside ’ — the aid microphone picks up the voice of the user as well as voices of other people . |
| 11 | In English , the term tiger picks out instances of the category ‘ tiger ’ today and will still do so tomorrow . |
| 12 | Johnny Jamieson picked up a first half knock in the 2– defeat by Portadown but he is expected to be fit in time for Saturday . |
| 13 | Miss Gilberd picked up the receiver , and dialled . |
| 14 | With demand for short and medium term paper picking up , most issues registered gains of up to £3/4 . |
| 15 | He was among the first to exploit the fact that living nerve fibres pick up and transport protein molecules like the enzyme horseradish peroxidase , whose presence is easily demonstrated and so acts as a marker . |
| 16 | If Edward Pitt picked up that in you , no wonder he was angry . |
| 17 | We finished our shift at 8 and he was going at 9 , but at 8 , instead of the usual people who came to take over from us , the managing director of the company and his next-door neighbour came in their golfing clothes to pick up whatever tip was being given and we were told to push off . |
| 18 | Water that has evaporated and condensed in the upper atmosphere , and then falls as rain , should be pure , except for a little carbon dioxide picked up on the way down ( although in fact , these days , it tends also to contain a whole catalogue of pollutants ) . |
| 19 | And was that emotion hatred picked up from all the disasters , the closures , the hopes , the ideals — all crushed , all violated , all laid waste ? |
| 20 | It was at that precise moment the killer pack picked up their trail back in the woods , having arrived hotfoot in answer to the summons of the ultrasonic whistle . |
| 21 | Lloyds Bank fund manager Michael Smith says : ‘ If the stock market picks up , as many are suggesting it will , PEPs will look more attractive than ever because the tax-free capital gain will be more valuable for someone who has consistently invested . ’ |
| 22 | Nevertheless , the stock market picked up on Oct. 15 as the suspension of the four went into effect . |
| 23 | It 's compact and has a shortwave capacity to pick up stations around the globe . |
| 24 | Four children who stroked Easter lambs picked up cryptosporidium … the same bug that contaminated some water supplies in the area four years ago . |
| 25 | Once those scenes had been completed , the carrier went back to North Island to pick up the replica aircraft and the two P–40s , and transported the entire group to Hawaii . |
| 26 | STILL panting from her naked romps in TV 's Camomile Lawn and Anglo-Saxon Attitudes , actress Tara Fitzgerald picked up some tips on puffing yesterday from old hand Peter O'Toole . |
| 27 | Karen Lansdown picks out her favourites |
| 28 | Dr Neil picked up his glass , filled it from the bottle , waved the bottle at her , and asked , ‘ Do liberated American girls ever drink spirits , McAllister ? |
| 29 | Alan Mullally , Gordon Parsons with a superb spell of 8–4–13–1 and Vince Wells picked up a wicket apiece before the break . |
| 30 | Alan Mullally , Gordon Parsons with a superb spell of 8–4–13–1 and Vince Wells picked up a wicket apiece before the break . |