Example sentences of "[conj] pick up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So a female researcher is more likely to recognise , and pick up certain cues , or pick up the ways in which she 's not actually being addressed , than a male researcher necessarily . |
| 2 | After sewing the neck shape I either overlock the shoulders or pick up the stitches on a darning needle using the same colour yarn . |
| 3 | Richard Coleman , managing directors of Compass Commercial Services , agreed that the MoD was a significant marketplace , although most of the contracts were now being let on a retender basis and a new insecurity in what was already a high risk business had recently presented itself — the application to the public sector of Transfer of Undertakings legislation , when incoming contractors are obliged to retain staff at current rates of pay , terms and conditions , or pick up the redundancy liability . |
| 4 | or pick up the aesthetics of road-haulage . |
| 5 | He worked with scarcely a break to search out a new passage in the files , or to pick up the half-smoked end of his last cigarette from the ashtray , stub it out , light a new one , and put it down in its place . |
| 6 | Millions of other Americans — mainly those living in rural areas , in institutions , and in certain housing estates — will have personal visits from census-takers either to deliver or pick up the forms . |
| 7 | He was just recuperating after a fall , was overwhelmed by other commitments , and knew that to pick up the threads of work he had done 15 years before and write it up in French in only two months was a Herculean task . |
| 8 | The cells that contain the chlorophyll that picks up the photons are mostly sandwiched in the spongy heart ( the mesophyll ) of the leaf . |
| 9 | But anyway the idea we have to fix up some sort of system that picks up the the targets from that . |
| 10 | Trouble is that picks up the dust . |
| 11 | For Clelia was , as she had claimed , a good audience : she listened with an attention that picked up the faintest vibrations of meaning . |
| 12 | Whimper like a whipped puppy , Jay , have a drink and pick up the pieces . |
| 13 | And pick up the groceries . |
| 14 | Because of his other highly classified projects , his office already contained all the paraphernalia of necessary secrecy : the code-block and buttons on the door , the gaggle of different-coloured telephones , the five-thousand-pound safes , even the tempered glass in the windows , as his lawyer noted at his trial , ‘ so that enemies of the country ca n't beam through the windows and pick up the sound ’ . |
| 15 | Next time , stay calm and pick up the pace when you can . |
| 16 | Sometimes it seemed that those who loved them were almost willing the band to spend their lives touring pubs , returning to Farnborough merely to return the empties and pick up the bills . |
| 17 | Think of India or the hippy trail to Kathmandu and pick up the hint of the free-wheeling late Sixties flower-power look . |
| 18 | To pick them up , moisten the paintbrush slightly , draw out the bristles to make a fine point and pick up the aphids with the tip of the brush . |
| 19 | Gently hold the disc in place on the surface of a grid by means of a strong eyelash mounted to the end of a thin wooden ( orange ) stick , and pick up the disc by bringing the grid up under the disc and out of the water . |
| 20 | ‘ Then come with me and pick up the latest reports . |
| 21 | I am ushered reverently into a cabin and pick up the quaint hand set , which has an additional round earpiece for clamping over the spare ear , so that I see myself reflected in the glass like a radio operator or a session singer . |
| 22 | I climb out and pick up the wood arrow , |
| 23 | Moving like a boy in treacle , I rotate on the axis of my right knee and pick up the yard and a half of large bore nozzle between hands slick with sweat . |
| 24 | He wished they 'd left him the radio mast , so that he could at least listen to some music and pick up the news . |
| 25 | From the comfort of my armchair I reach across the table and pick up the gun . |
| 26 | And pick up the paper and read the ‘ Obits ’ |
| 27 | I stretch over to the bedside table and pick up the packet and lighter , remove a cigarette and hand it to her . |
| 28 | Whether to you know sort of try and pick up the guys who are getting thrown out of Heathrow and make a long-term go of it or whether in the long term , em , they want to flog it off for gravel and you know mining it for gravel and sending it for houses and you know , that sort of thing . |
| 29 | And then er Tom retired and he used to run the bus long after we start the mails and then he retired and er the bus service to come down along and pick up the passengers and that was how it start . |
| 30 | The American embassy in London reported on 23 November 1956 that " anti-American feeling is at a very high pitch and yet is accompanied by the somewhat contradictory but nevertheless complacent assumption that the U.S. is bound to come to its senses and pick up the check " . |