Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] pick up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob bent down , too , and moved discreetly about picking up the more obviously feminine articles of clothing around the floor . |
| 2 | Your child fails to complete a task you have set , e.g. he fails to eat all his vegetables , she wanders away halfway through picking up her toys . |
| 3 | There was ‘ Pooper Scooper ’ Watkins , a young woman who insisted not only on picking up her dog 's faeces with a see-through plastic glove , but also on waving it in the faces of passers-by in order to emphasize her ecological soundness . |
| 4 | She might have made her point a lot better by picking up Mouse and dumping him in the garbage can — instead she responded with violence that was really out of proportion to Mouse 's attack . |
| 5 | She waited until it had stalked away before picking up the remains of the Geiger-Muller counter and dropping them into the holdall . |
| 6 | One dealer at Bailey McMahon , just before picking up the phone to speak with clients , would chant : " I 'll rip your head off . |
| 7 | Bull , who has scored four goals in the last two games , did not train yesterday after picking up the injury during Saturday 's 5-0 win over Portsmouth . |
| 8 | ‘ I was feeling pretty pleased with myself yesterday after picking up some awards in Harrogate , including one for a window display . |
| 9 | He arrived home from picking up the Sunday morning bagels and the lad from Sunday school , to find his study full of arc lamps and white coats , and to have his sleeve wrenched unceremoniously up and a needle shoved in his vein . |
| 10 | A shortage of time proved problematical and in order to ensure that the Suhaili negotiated the fjords successfully in picking up the climbers , Knox-Johnston returned to the boat before the others . |
| 11 | And now for picking up the bits . |
| 12 | Erm , capital bonds , they used to be good rates , they , they 've deteriorated really , National Savings certificates well I 've covered index-linked , the only one I 'd really say er is n't super unless you 're a higher-rate taxpayer is the fortieth issue , which is paying under six percent , it 's not really worth picking up for five years . |
| 13 | FOLLOW-UP to their club congenial ‘ Pot Of Gold ’ ( there 's a remix around well worth picking up ) , ‘ Mixed Moods ’ contains four variations on a theme crafted around a gorgeous string-infected format , of which some will be more effective earlier in the evening whilst the remainder will nurse any wounds left open from the evening 's proceedings . |
| 14 | This takes some getting used to , but claustrophobic fingertips need not concern themselves unduly , as the feeling is dispelled immediately upon picking up the guitar . |
| 15 | Give her plenty of opportunities to practice eye/hand coordination besides dressing , ie by picking up small objects , playing with threading toys , building with bricks , etc . |
| 16 | The gundogs were primarily for picking up at pheasant shoots and for work on my own shoot , but one of them , a Springer spaniel , was also used for hunting out rough-lying rabbits and also for retrieving shot rabbits from difficult situations . |
| 17 | Goalkeeper Bolder off his line , punched away only to Andy Melville on the edge of the penalty area ; Melville ran forward after picking up the loose ball , hammered it forward , Martin Foyle getting the last touch of the ball into the corner of the net , and United now seemingly pushing forward towards three points . |
| 18 | Other insects hear through clumps of hairs or special antennae which work by detecting the movement of the vibrating air molecules instead of picking up the pressure waves of sound . |