Example sentences of "[noun sg] pick up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bank had arranged for a four-wheeler to pick up the messenger , round the back of the building . |
| 2 | Ruth moaned as she staggered out of her bedroom to pick up the phone . |
| 3 | Though still it has all the marks of makeshift industrialisation and decline , with municipalism picking up the pieces , building endless estates of council houses . |
| 4 | The monitor picks up the amount of ultraviolet or UV rays coming from the sun . |
| 5 | The minibus picks up the Inspirals party outside the hotel in Japantown , San Francisco at 10.30 the next morning , a Sunday . |
| 6 | The first watcher picked up the red phone nearby and punched out three digits . |
| 7 | The core is aligned with one coil picking up the north-south field and inclined at roughly 67° to the horizontal and adjusted so as to produce the largest positive output from the amplifier . |
| 8 | And he had no hesitation in going back to St James ' Park to pick up the 24-year-old , who has been out of favour with the First Division leaders since the arrival of former Pompey star John Beresford in the summer . |
| 9 | ‘ What are you doing ? ’ she asked , her heart picking up the pace again . |
| 10 | Vacuum cleaner ( linked to one — a bun ) : There is nothing particularly unusual about using a vacuum cleaner to pick up the crumbs of a bun so I decided to picture a bun decorated with a vacuum cleaner on top . |
| 11 | Gedge was anxious to save money and went down to London on a coach to pick up the singles . |
| 12 | The new act picks up the Warnock comments that really the majority of children can probably be erm accommodated in ordinary schools , but there will always be a need for special schools , and in fact they do mention some proportions . |
| 13 | Then the Judge picked up the stiff body of the student in his arms . |
| 14 | Granny picked up the last of the things they had cleared out of the cupboards and looked at it . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , the woman in question picked up the piece of paper with her name and address on along with all the Sanctuary 's records , and has not been seen since . |
| 16 | The boy picked up the knife and was about to cut into the cake when he stopped . |
| 17 | The girl picked up the receiver , soap suds streaming on to its cover . |
| 18 | The old lady picked up the glass and pulled a face . |
| 19 | The sun picked up the colours of a girl 's dress . |
| 20 | He made a move to pick up the bucket but saw Alexandra 's glance in time and withdrew his hand unhappily . |
| 21 | He bought groceries to last him the week , then popped next door to the frame shop to pick up the stainless steel frame he 'd ordered for a James Barker black and white print he 'd obtained in an auction some weeks before . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Everyone made it back to the rendezvous where they laid up for the day , returning in the evening to pick up the SBS group which had managed to deal with the radio station . |
| 24 | From the Brigadier 's office the Captain telephoned Maxwell at the Excelsior , sending Bacci through to the communicating duty room to pick up the phone there . |
| 25 | The Webbs ' failure to pick up the proposal would have been forgivable but for one thing ; and that is their criticism of his failure to comprehend before they were born their theory of rent — a theory which , whatever might be its academic merits , provided no practical help to Governments . |
| 26 | USL expects Sparc compatible builders like ICL plc to pick up the former , with the Japanese and maybe firms in the Mips ABI group going for the other . |
| 27 | GRIPPING SCENE : Proud pop picks up the tot he once refused to carry |
| 28 | The microphone picks up the surrounding sounds and feeds them to the amplifier . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The first player in each team picks up the feather by inhaling through the straw . |