Example sentences of "[be] pick [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At any rate , they had known that the Nilsen girl had n't delivered her message unless they were guessing , word having got around that she had been picked up unconscious . |
| 2 | I believe I have unconsciously been picking up modern reformed attitudes to nature from television wildlife programmes . |
| 3 | The Agnes has been picking up various cargoes from North African and some West African ports . |
| 4 | Oceans have been picking up soluble materials ( notably sodium chloride — salt ) from the land , for millions of years . |
| 5 | For many years our shore-based rummage crews had been picking up increasing quantities of drugs from routine searches of merchant vessels within the ports , but often these smuggling attempts were " one off " jobs by crew members . |
| 6 | We 've been picking up some bad vibes on that guy . |
| 7 | Others are students who seek work during vacations or at weekends and yet others are students on hotel and catering courses who are picking up practical experience . |
| 8 | Clearly there 's no systematic structure in those residuals , right , if the residuals were moving in a cyclical manner erm that would imply that we are missing an important explanatory variable in our model and its systematic effect has been just thrown into the error term and as a result we are picking up that systematic effect in , in residuals . |
| 9 | Yentob and his colleague Michael Jackson , who came from The Late Show to run the music and arts department , are picking up warm endorsements for assuming Channel 4 's mantle of experiment . |
| 10 | More youngsters are finding their own values clashing with a school 's social codes , some are picking up contradictory messages from the media and more are coming from broken or damaged families . |
| 11 | Yet at least the storm does seem to be over , and the peasants are picking up fallen sticks in the devastated forest . |
| 12 | The housing tenure variables which are picking up any supply side effects on the offer probabilities via mobility effects have the expected signs but most are insignificant . |
| 13 | We 're picking up new habits all the time . |
| 14 | Patients , to Aline , were fascinating mental problems to be picked up each time one walked on duty and put down directly one walked out of the ward . |
| 15 | Apart from that , my only quarrel with the production of the book is a number of printing errors , which should be picked up prior to a second edition . |
| 16 | The effect of that test would be to pick out those reckless killings which occurred when D had already manifested substantial moral and legal culpability , and to classify them as murder . |
| 17 | I 've noted there that , that if you were to bid for funds that had tapering attaching to them , and therefore you would be picking up increased costs in ninety five , six , and ninety six , seven , that they would n't exceed the figure shown at the bottom of the page . |
| 18 | They should be picking up other clues about each other too : the accents they speak with , the way they are dressed , the kind of hairstyles they have all tell us something about people we meet . |
| 19 | ca n't we , why ca n't we be picking out guiding , guidance as far everything |
| 20 | Because there 's another storey down the bottom floor , because if you noticed there 's a huge great patio there , unfortunately , so er , so it 's eight thirty seven , say you 're being picked up nine thirty |
| 21 | In pursuing the campaign for family allowances ( initially intended to provide the mother with a wage as well as allowances for children ) , mainstream feminists of the inter-war years were picking up one of the major demands of labour women 's groups prior to World War I and consciously taking on board social issues of importance to working class women . |
| 22 | He and the other members of the company were picking out shapeless ingots , precious gems and buckled coins , licking their fingers as they burnt them , as if they were pulling roast chestnuts out of a grate . |
| 23 | However misinterpretation is always possible and it is also very possible that Bill is picking up other signals about John which John is not aware he 's sending . |
| 24 | All we are really concerned about is picking up two more points to ease our way to the United States next year . |
| 25 | I do keep an eye on my colour changer to make sure that it is picking up each colour as it should and I am also very careful to check that I have no ‘ lazy ’ or less than perfect needles as picking up dropped stitches is not a pleasant job . |
| 26 | They are fascinated by it and she is picking up French fast , compensating for five months out of school . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , Swedish-based Norsys Technology AB is picking up full-scale distribution of Objectivity 's ODBMS in Scandinavia : the pair will also work together on some customer projects . |
| 28 | It 's picking up all that you say you know . |
| 29 | Erm Rob and Polly 's mum 's picking Simon up and taking him home and erm , Annette 's picking up most nights Gary 's gon na be home just after four so it 's actually someone to take them home . |
| 30 | But there he was , going round the flower shop , accompanied by this assistant who 's picking out great armfuls of flowers . |