Example sentences of "be [adv] pick up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ray , a Veterans Athletic Club road and cross-country runner , has been slowly picking up speed during his first six or seven years back in the sport and he 's now a top-ranked man . |
| 2 | Heavy metal cretins , evil aliens , pan-global pop celebs and long-lost spaceships drifting forever in the airless void of deep space — yep , those ELDORADO plotlines are finally picking up . |
| 3 | One of the problems about , about dealing with somebody like in the process is that , one , they get their enquiries from the Investment Income Bureau , the Investment Income Bureau get their enquiries from the consulates , so what , what is happening , that they 're only picking up those people who are searching everywhere . |
| 4 | First Chipping Norton , then the world , and they 're already picking up bookings . |
| 5 | That shows that you 're actually picking up the sound . |
| 6 | My kit being near the casualty ( by now conscious ) , I thought it may have been mistakenly picked up . |
| 7 | Ralph Pike was positively radiating doom by now and in a country like Latvia such radiations are quickly picked up . |
| 8 | So at least the first two cells are still picking up the right two numbers , because we used the range names , we 've inserted a row on the other file , but er , we 're still about range names found where those cells are . |
| 9 | These slow waves pervade the head to the extent that they are also picked up by the EOG electrodes , just as K complexes are . |
| 10 | Such views are often picked up and repeated by non-finance specialists ( e.g. Hill , 1985 ) . |
| 11 | On section eleven , yes we are along with the Liberals , we are trying to maintain the budget against the government cuts , but do n't anybody get away with the impression that that is going to maintain the service as it is at the moment , because we are really to pick up extra pupils . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ Thank you no I 'm just picking up a book George promised me . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm just picking up the . |
| 14 | ‘ The orchestra is hardly heard at the back of the stage , where singers are , so the beat can not be reliably picked up by ear : instead the singers must use their eyes . |
| 15 | It was just on a minute on page seventy-nine , I think we want to get the support of local M Ps , one a has I think , has been just indicated , is contradictory , it might be better to say , ‘ although the document indicated that local authorities would be expected to undertake extra , an extra , or extra duties , the resources needed are , no indication was given of how there would be extra resources , or something like that , you see it 's contradictory at the moment , it says there 's no indication of the role , and then says that they would need resources , and actually if you look through the document , you will see from time-to-time it is indicated what local authorities are expected to do , for instance recycling of litter and the lot , and I think that that might be actually picked up by M P's and say , ‘ Well , what actually have you , do you mean to say ’ , well , what we 're really saying , are we not , that here is an indication of things that we 're expected to do , but as usual , of course , the government has n't indicated what erm where the resources were coming from . |
| 16 | A second canoe on this mission was paddled back to be safely picked up five miles from the English coast . |
| 17 | The various whirrings and whinings which may be emitted by the camcorder itself , not to mention any noises which you make while operating the controls , are liable to be faithfully picked up by the on-board microphone . |
| 18 | Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has declared its intention of buying up to 15 per cent and is thought to be quietly picking up stock . |
| 19 | These molecules are then picked up by receptor proteins on the surface of the second cell . |
| 20 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for the effects of cold . |
| 21 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for cold . |
| 22 | Smith , managed to scramble out and were soon picked up by the destroyer ‘ Foresight ’ . |
| 23 | We were just picking up the malai national programme . |
| 24 | As the diesel train came in and people were already picking up suitcases from the platform Moran turned and kissed her as if it were a last good night to all the nights she had come to him . |
| 25 | People were always picking up hitch-hikers . |
| 26 | Only six out of the school 's 260 pupils turned up at the school , and four of them were later picked up by their parents and returned home . |
| 27 | Some were immediately picked up by the demons , whilst others managed again and again to risk their lives before falling to the persistent attacks of the creatures from hell . |
| 28 | A crash-landing on the surface of the sea was carried out , during which the one unwounded member of the crew was injured , but all were safely picked up by the destroyer ‘ Camicia Nere ’ . |
| 29 | And the suggestion to this Committee was that it looked , that it looked further at the five hundred thousand pounds guideline that 's been set to address the apparent shortfall on community care funding , and also that you should look at further service reductions and their implications erm , of reductions of a further two hundred and fifty thousand , and those are again picked up later in the paper . |
| 30 | This point is sensibly picked up in the Vienna Sales Convention , which provides in article 1(2) that : The fact that the parties have their places of business in different States is to be disregarded whenever this fact does not appear from the contract or from any dealings between , or from , information disclosed by , the parties at any time before or at the conclusion of the contract . ’ |