Example sentences of "[vb pp] pick [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles is hotly tipped to pick up the creative account for St Ivel 's Shape and Gold brands , currently handled by J Walter Thompson . |
| 2 | In addition , all water authorities spent large sums on routine river maintenance on farmland ; and still more money was spent by the Ministry of Agriculture in contributing between 30 and 70 per cent of the cost of farmers held drainage , designed to pick up the benefits of lowering the water level , a result of river engineering schemes . |
| 3 | The water is viewed by light sensitive detectors designed to pick up the so-called Cherenkov light emitted when electrically-charged particles travel faster than light does through the water . |
| 4 | The first thing the researchers discovered was that special infrared cameras , designed to pick up the heat given off by warm-blooded animals , failed to detect polar bears — the insulation provided by their coats is too efficient . |
| 5 | A plant 's leaves are ideally placed to detect day length , for they are designed to pick up the sun 's light for photosynthesis . |
| 6 | Thus we may write , where t is a random , serially independent variable designed to pick up the random movements in the risk premium . |
| 7 | Here short-pile fabric is used to pick out the main pattern shapes , providing a relief pattern that highlights the design . |
| 8 | Of course , once children give up their single-level assumption , they accept the fact that terms at different levels such as dog and animal or bear and toy may be used to pick out the same object . |
| 9 | Another problem which electric fish have circumvented is that very sensitive receptors are needed to pick up the weak signals of other fish , and such receptors would be swamped by the fish 's own field . |
| 10 | A Swedish yacht helped pick up the survivors . |
| 11 | The two players whose numbers have been called pick up the hockey sticks , and the first one to hit the ball gets the point . |
| 12 | A suitable train was scheduled to pick up the wives of the workmen along side their homes . |
| 13 | When his pager bleeps , the members of staff being contacted picks up the nearest telephone and dials a prearranged number , such as the reception desk . |
| 14 | Finally she felt compelled to pick up the conversation , make some pretence at normality . |
| 15 | It is them that I am appealing to somebody because of the erm the the th thought transference that I am using is feeling now compelled to pick up the phone O nine O four six four one six four one . |
| 16 | Meanwhile Dave had gone to pick up the boss from Stuttgart Airport as he was joining us for the weekend . |
| 17 | When the students were asked to pick out the photograph that most resembled them , they usually selected the most flattering one . |
| 18 | Thus , if in a set of decimals to be compared , the longest one really is the smallest , it will attract such pupils when they are asked to pick out the smallest as well as those who select it for the correct reason . |
| 19 | It 's the time young hounds are trained to pick up the scent of a fox . |
| 20 | You may be worrying about such people because you are left to pick up the pieces afterwards . |
| 21 | Consequently the daughter is left to pick up the pieces of the havoc caused by the strain of raised blood-pressure and general anxiety the next day . |
| 22 | And long-suffering wife Bet — actress Julie Goodyear — will be left to pick up the pieces . |
| 23 | Counselling is seldom provided in such matters : the social worker is often left to pick up the pieces . |
| 24 | But unfortunately er it seems to fall on many deaf ears and we the Society as other many charities who deal with animals are left to pick up the pieces . |
| 25 | The contractors are rightly concerned that they should not be forced to pick up the bill for problems which are not of their making . |
| 26 | As our economy has declined as our recession has turned to a slump increasingly it is the low-paid , the sick , the disabled and the unemployed who have been forced to pick up the tab for the Tory policy failure . |
| 27 | Whoever was skippering the patrol boat had n't waited to pick up the tender . |
| 28 | The basic framework of that popular culture was fairly obvious for urban workers not only lived close together in distinctive communities but had also begun to pick up the rudiments of an education and they had both savings and time to spare . |
| 29 | At 6.15 a taxi was dispatched to pick up the old dress — any old dress — to cover my confusion and my body . |
| 30 | For this reason the time required to pick up the tagged record may be rather more than R/2 . |