Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] pick up " in BNC.
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| 1 | One girl starts by picking up all the beads in one hole on her side . |
| 2 | He 'd acquired a gasoline kicker engine from somewhere with an exhaust that run and he had made during picked up from scraps and stuff and made it , so where he had a tub right on top of this gasoline engine . |
| 3 | The Company put on a special workman 's train to carry these men morning and evening , picking up at Roade and Castlethorpe , the latter two serving as pick up points for Hanslope , Yardley Gobion and Potterspury men . |
| 4 | YOUNG riding sensation Adrian Maguire will miss Cheltenham 's prestige Mackeson Gold Cup meeting after picking up a four-day whip ban at Wincanton yesterday . |
| 5 | The new test depends on picking up subtle differences in the way that DNA is distributed around the nuclei of cancerous cells . |
| 6 | I 've got ta pick up |
| 7 | I 've got ta pick up this grout at do n't wait for me |
| 8 | A HOTEL owner is celebrating after picking up a top award . |
| 9 | This job consisted of picking up thirty-six containers from the jetty Where they were being unloaded from HMAV Arakan ( one of the two Army Landing Craft Logistic ) and moving them to the container park . |
| 10 | Their sensual lives consisted in picking up half-drunk girls in pubs and spending the night with them , perhaps only seeing them once or twice more , or never again . |
| 11 | Your opponent is allowed the first turn , and will almost always begin by picking up two different cards , say an ace and a six . |
| 12 | Heather , from Stoke-on-Trent , says he was tricked into picking up a package of heroin by some Westerners he met in Bangkok . |
| 13 | Do you want me to apologise for picking up the gauntlet you threw down ? ’ |
| 14 | Master butcher Howard Callaghan returned from picking up an award for a pork window display to discover the plate glass front of the shop blown away . |
| 15 | Having scrabbled round picking up as many ‘ pros ’ as I can find , and then weighing them against the ‘ cons ’ , while looking at everything in the most optimistic light , there can be no doubt that we are doomed . |
| 16 | If that happens Lonrho may be gambling on picking up the betting shop part of the operation for the proverbial song . |
| 17 | At the same time you bleep the missing swimming pool attendant who responds by picking up the nearest intercom substation handset allowing you to issue instructions directly , all within a matter of seconds rather than minutes . |
| 18 | It 's not only a working instrument but the kind of guitar that you feel like picking up and playing at any time ; when it 's not wowing the punters it will probably spend its time lying on the sofa permanently on call . |
| 19 | Paul Azinger , Payne Stewart , Mark O'Meara , Steve Pate , and Chip Beck can be counted upon to pick up yet again the gauntlet flung down by the Mother Country . |
| 20 | But er , the others , anything that is n't gon na be changed where the cabling is untidy , is dangerous , will have to picked up before that . |
| 21 | TWO Gulf War soldiers died after picking up unexploded bombs in the desert , a coroner heard yesterday . |
| 22 | He took to picking up pretty young girls just so that he could complain about her . |
| 23 | The price to pay for picking up the public asset should be respect for the pension rights of the public company employees . |
| 24 | We start by picking up and examining the cube . |
| 25 | Start by picking up the coast path by the sea in Swanage . |
| 26 | Because i it is assumed management is learned by picking up the bad habits of your predecessor and their predecessors for the last five hundred years . |
| 27 | One visiting history adviser looking at a display of old washing equipment got the infants to explain by picking up and examining an old flat iron , looking for the flex and asking " But how did they plug this in ? " |
| 28 | But that is another way of saying the ring can not be seen , measured , touched or heard by picking up the bell and sniffing it , weighing it and subjecting it to chemical analysis . |
| 29 | Many straight edges can be joined by picking up the edges , right sides together , on to the needlebed . |
| 30 | This is merely the reaction time required in picking up the card and placing it on a pile without making any choice based on the value of the card . |