Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] pick [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Rosa had taken the tray Luce picked up the crutch and practised hobbling round the bedroom . |
| 2 | The night raids with a few sporadic bangs and our own guns , and twice a silver Zeppelin picked out by a search light , seemed fun — because we all came downstairs and stayed up late and were n't expected to be bright at school next morning . |
| 3 | Carbon monoxide picks up an electron ( is reduced ) to form the radical anion CO which reacts further with another CO or with carbon monoxide itself to form oxocarbon anions . |
| 4 | One advantage of using a hearing-aid is in hearing one 's own voice ‘ from the outside ’ — the aid microphone picks up the voice of the user as well as voices of other people . |
| 5 | In English , the term tiger picks out instances of the category ‘ tiger ’ today and will still do so tomorrow . |
| 6 | With demand for short and medium term paper picking up , most issues registered gains of up to £3/4 . |
| 7 | He was among the first to exploit the fact that living nerve fibres pick up and transport protein molecules like the enzyme horseradish peroxidase , whose presence is easily demonstrated and so acts as a marker . |
| 8 | We finished our shift at 8 and he was going at 9 , but at 8 , instead of the usual people who came to take over from us , the managing director of the company and his next-door neighbour came in their golfing clothes to pick up whatever tip was being given and we were told to push off . |
| 9 | Water that has evaporated and condensed in the upper atmosphere , and then falls as rain , should be pure , except for a little carbon dioxide picked up on the way down ( although in fact , these days , it tends also to contain a whole catalogue of pollutants ) . |
| 10 | And was that emotion hatred picked up from all the disasters , the closures , the hopes , the ideals — all crushed , all violated , all laid waste ? |
| 11 | It was at that precise moment the killer pack picked up their trail back in the woods , having arrived hotfoot in answer to the summons of the ultrasonic whistle . |
| 12 | Lloyds Bank fund manager Michael Smith says : ‘ If the stock market picks up , as many are suggesting it will , PEPs will look more attractive than ever because the tax-free capital gain will be more valuable for someone who has consistently invested . ’ |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the stock market picked up on Oct. 15 as the suspension of the four went into effect . |
| 14 | It 's compact and has a shortwave capacity to pick up stations around the globe . |
| 15 | Four children who stroked Easter lambs picked up cryptosporidium … the same bug that contaminated some water supplies in the area four years ago . |
| 16 | Quality system procedure two , talks about how the management team pick up suggestions made by yourselves through Q S P Three , and set about making decisions for improvement of the group 's quality system , the service that we provide to our clients . |
| 17 | An alternative explanation is that the absence of dynamic homogeneity arises from using nominal asset stock measures ( in spite of the rationale for estimating in nominal terms outlined above ) with the dynamic nominal wealth terms picking up some inflation effect . |
| 18 | He , they were late to bed I 'd had them erm round at the shops and then er er Queensway , then the shopping centre to pick up a card for for Chris . |
| 19 | Commit yourself straight down the fall line to pick up enough momentum to turn with minimum effort and use a vigorous down — and up ( unweighting ) — motion to turn . |
| 20 | Sheffield Wednesday midfielder John Sheridan has had to withdraw from the Republic squad , following the thigh injury picked up in the FA Cup final replay defeat against Arsenal on Thursday at Wembley . |
| 21 | The Queen gets £7.9 million from the list , the Queen Mother picks up £643,000 and Philip gets £359,000 . |
| 22 | Stewart and Sedgley are both suffering from ‘ dead legs ’ and has a knee ligament injury picked up in last week 's Rumbelows League Cup win at Grimsby . |
| 23 | And on the hour Gill picked up a Hitchcock through ball , controlled it on his chest and fired in a memorable goal . |
| 24 | I could n't wait to finish at the studio that day so I could slip down the record shop to pick up a copy , and several months later I still have n't stopped playing it . |
| 25 | I never understood why we got in the tangled bureaucratic mess of the community charge to pick up the tiny amount of 3 million out of 42.5 million people . |
| 26 | Erm , the buy who was gon na do it , unfortunately has eye trouble and er towards the beginning of the start , quite near to the start his er eye trouble picked up a lot more . |
| 27 | The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years . |
| 28 | Over the next two Saturdays it is organising town litter picks along with skip collections at the Gateway car park , Ox Close and the Parish Church car park . |
| 29 | Certainly the kind of modern-day would-be Kerouac who survives entirely on the proceeds from trading-in free albums and indulging in the fine art of ‘ ligging ’ — tagging along to any show in town where the record company picks up the catering bill — is not extinct . |
| 30 | In contrast , a pleasant summer scene in 1984 along the Golden Mile , with a new livery railcoach picking up passengers at Central Pier . |