Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] pick [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My sister picks up a |
| 2 | ‘ Once I hit the 2O mile mark I started to feel stronger and my speed picked up slightly , but as I ran up the Mall towards Buckingham Palace I discovered a new meaning to the word pain . |
| 3 | He was using my car to pick up another girlfriend at the airport . |
| 4 | My drinking picked up incredibly . |
| 5 | My father picked up the Book of Remembering . |
| 6 | Now it is my turn to pick up my cup . |
| 7 | ‘ No lass , I 'm on my way to pick up a radiator . |
| 8 | I closed my eyes and grasped the legs as my master picked up the corpse by the shoulders . |
| 9 | The three big Dobermans lay up , licking their wounds and nuzzling their flanks with their teeth to pick out small pellets embedded there . |
| 10 | ‘ What are you doing ? ’ she asked , her heart picking up the pace again . |
| 11 | They travel out next week , with their employers picking up all the hotel bills . |
| 12 | She crossed the room and with a resolute shrug of her shoulders picked up the receiver . |
| 13 | Its dendrites pick up information from other neurons , and the axon and its terminals pass this on to other cells . |
| 14 | Ruth moaned as she staggered out of her bedroom to pick up the phone . |
| 15 | The young horse goes through so many learning experiences with us — the discipline of being held still in our arms as a foal , acceptance of being stroked all over and having its legs picked up , learning to lead and to be tied up , and later learning to accept being rugged and lunged . |
| 16 | Paige strained her ears to pick up even the slightest sound . |
| 17 | Her mouth picked up at the corners and she just had to laugh . |
| 18 | How will you decide which home to pick on . |
| 19 | I crawl under her desk to pick up all the bits . |
| 20 | Instead , we gradually get the horse used to having its feet picked up , little by little , until it will tolerates having its feet picked up for a longer time without causing any fuss . |
| 21 | Instead , we gradually get the horse used to having its feet picked up , little by little , until it will tolerates having its feet picked up for a longer time without causing any fuss . |
| 22 | However , if we choose to confront the horse , and to fight it out , the horse will always associate having its feet picked up with anger and fear , and it will always be difficult . |
| 23 | If the horse is going to be shod , it should already be accustomed to having its feet picked up and filed . |
| 24 | Without warning she towered to her feet and he found himself facing into her breasts before stepping back to give her room to pick up gloves and handbag . |
| 25 | Gone up to their their room to pick up some their toys I would n't know how to , but the older one can open the gate ! |
| 26 | Their lights picked out the graffiti of long-dead people — prayers , curses , obscenities , threats — and what might have been messages in alien script or in the calligraphy of madness . |
| 27 | Since the IPG approaches its information items in the widest possible context , liaison with researchers helps its writers pick up the concerns of other agencies and enables them to include other sources of information and views . |
| 28 | Regardless of our commitment to joint decision-making most of us will find that there are many decisions where we feel we lack either sufficient interest or qualification and are perfectly happy to leave those decisions to our partner , eg many men would feel primarily responsible for choosing a car but would prefer their wives to pick out the furniture , decorations and plan the kitchen . |
| 29 | But prison officers say their procedures to pick up at risk prisoners were followed . |
| 30 | And , says the company , it has a joint marketing agreement with Hewlett-Packard in Germany , and in the US is working with both DEC and Motorola Computer Systems in its quest to pick up on the expanding downsizing trend . |