Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] pick up " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very freedom which marks the period of childhood gives unrivalled opportunity for picking up all sorts of information about the environment ; the child is not handicapped by attending school and listening to formal instruction which is for the most part unrelated to his interests and needs . |
| 2 | The 5000 desktop model has a memory checking function for picking up memory errors , while the 5900 server can make use of a large-capacity disk array with up to eight disk drives . |
| 3 | Things have been quiet … no messages for 24 hours after picking up the 49 that were waiting yesterday . |
| 4 | Baker , 33 , understudy to injured first-choice Craig Forrest , played through the pain barrier during Ipswich 's 2-2 draw with Coventry City last Saturday after picking up a groin injury . |
| 5 | In the network fragment for each reading of ‘ He picked up a jack ’ , there would be a node for each of ‘ he ’ , the jack , and the specified action of picking up , and the links between these would be labelled by case names . |
| 6 | This will keep the whole body in perfect equilibrium and make the action of picking up an object into a comparatively simple activity . |
| 7 | No harm in picking up the extra dough , so long as I was doing my client 's work at the same time . ’ |
| 8 | It was perhaps even more alarming to learn that the Distant Early Warning System , the chain of radar stations ringing the Soviet Union from Greenland to Alaska , had more than once given the alarm which put Strategic Air Command into the air en route to the target thanks to picking up a moon echo or a flock of geese migrating in formation . |
| 9 | They could have followed us the four hours to Dieppe in the hope of picking up trade on the way back ; but that makes for a ten-hour day . |
| 10 | I guess he heard Barbara and me discussing the good time we had with you , and he kind of picked up on it , and he wondered why he could n't come down to the Bahamas and isolate himself from drugs . |
| 11 | It had been a quiet afternoon so far , and it showed no signs of picking up . |
| 12 | He did not , however , show any signs of picking up the bag . |
| 13 | After landing , which included the formalities of a lecture on the dangers of picking up unidentified objects , we were transported the sixty or so kilometres into the capital town of Stanley , and deposited at our hotel on the waterfront . |
| 14 | More recently , they have been supplemented by the galium arsenide laser instrument with opto-electrical linkage for picking up conversation at a distance from the vibrations in window panes . |
| 15 | ‘ Being used as cheap labour to break Alejandro 's ponies , ’ said Luke , taking Perdita 's suitcases from her , ‘ in return for picking up a few tips from the master . ’ |
| 16 | Their problems intensified when wing ace Martin Offiah did n't appear for the second half after picking up a leg injury . |
| 17 | The goalkeeper 's he 's committed the cardinal error by picking up the er the back pass , oh he 's given a free kick the other way . |
| 18 | WAQAR YOUNIS showed why he is the world 's top-rated bowler by picking up his second five wicket haul of the season as Surrey took charge against joint county championship leaders Glamorgan at The Oval . |
| 19 | There is a difference between picking up your receiver and actually being connected . |
| 20 | In this land of the lawyer , there is no more appropriate place for picking up the social , business and political threads of the city than a spectacle viewed from the public benches of a federal court . |
| 21 | The incubation period between picking up the infection and showing the first clinical signs is four to five days and during this time the animal appears clinically normal . |
| 22 | That 's one of the worst places for picking up germs , you know . |
| 23 | After we 've signed the visitors ' book , he reproaches my husband for picking up his bag : ‘ We have a bag-carrying service . ’ |
| 24 | Mark Hateley seemingly well on the road to recovery after picking up an injury against Hibs last Sunday . |
| 25 | he said he said not knowing her children he said but knowing what he sort of picked up about your kids |
| 26 | Not I 'm not blaming Marianne , but she 's sort of picked up things from the media and the media have said oh rejoice attitude , but that particular rejoice was because there were no casualties |
| 27 | It has already made behind-the-scenes preparations to share the job of picking up the pieces . |
| 28 | Your camcorder 's microphone will no doubt do a first-rate job of picking up the general sound atmosphere , or ambience . |
| 29 | Obviously every record company in Britain wasted no time in sniffing out the possibilities of picking up the band . |
| 30 | Of course , it 's good to know the ground rules about wearing the right clothes and not jumping on the sett ( certainly , from the badger 's point of view ) , but the consequence of picking up badger-lore slowly — getting closer to the smells , scratches and signs — is that you not only find it easier to watch badgers but also more enjoyable . |