Example sentences of "a [noun] pick [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought you did n't like your German , are you a bit picked up on that then ? |
| 2 | Joe saw an opportunity to get the couple to visit a branch to pick up a ‘ replacement ’ card but when they arrived the police moved in and detained them . |
| 3 | It parodies itself as it goes along , like a lawnmower picking up its own clippings . |
| 4 | Afraid for his eyes , Gabriel froze , like a hare picked up by its ears . |
| 5 | The bank had arranged for a four-wheeler to pick up the messenger , round the back of the building . |
| 6 | Aunt Margaret was bird-like herself , in her hither-and-thither movements and a certain gesture she had of nodding her head like a sparrow picking up crumbs . |
| 7 | In IBM 's method , the electrode tip moves up and down in a bid to pick up a constant current . |
| 8 | In fact a lady picked up all awards er last week last Friday she cleared almost cleared the floor she was so good . |
| 9 | For Humphrey , aesthetic structuring arises from the urge to group and classify information as well as from a capacity to pick up similarities and associations that generate a sense of rhythm and rhyme . |
| 10 | Perhaps the accidental resemblance of a video in its box to a book in its dust-jacket will lead a child to pick up a book by mistake , thinking it to be a video , and start reading . |
| 11 | It means a bit of cheating , will give you some idea of how they , at level one , on a picture a child , you 'd expect a child to pick out two things about buildings . |
| 12 | This is when the bream are feeding very confidently , usually on maggots which they are picking up directly from the bottom , much as a chicken picks up corn one grain after another without having to move too far to do it . |
| 13 | Gedge was anxious to save money and went down to London on a coach to pick up the singles . |
| 14 | But she 's happiest working for TV and is a frontrunner to pick up another British Academy award next year . |
| 15 | A boy picks up souvenirs from a wrecked car in Florida |
| 16 | Smith compiled his innings despite a cold picked up since his return to ‘ work ’ on Monday , which forced him home prematurely in his new car , number plate JII DGE — which from a distance appears to spell out his nickname of Judge , acquired because of his wavy hair . |
| 17 | He made a move to pick up the bucket but saw Alexandra 's glance in time and withdrew his hand unhappily . |
| 18 | She was so interested that she was only vaguely aware the room was emptying of other guests until a waiter picked up their empty glasses and obstinately replaced the ashtrays Roman had borrowed . |
| 19 | I think that 's a point to pick up on actually . |
| 20 | This guy has a business picking up fossils and selling them ? |
| 21 | Well , it 's been all the members are good , sort of thing , it 's a job to pick out one , but |
| 22 | Or had a tourist picked up one of the cards she had lavishly distributed around the village shops and arrived to buy a souvenir ? |
| 23 | Suppose someone in a greengrocery picks up an apple and says : Is this the fruit you mean ? |
| 24 | During a shift when the men considered that very little was happening , they responded to calls concerning a house fire and an attempted break-in , calls to check on the whereabouts of a pensioner who had not been seen by a neighbour for a few days , a request to pick up and transport a prisoner , and a call to move on some youths . |
| 25 | Fabia felt a nibble of excitement get to her as she ran a comb through her long golden hair , and even found that there were traces of a smile picking up the corners of her mouth . |
| 26 | Panic set in on the twelfth day when , after ‘ lifting ’ milk , a lorry picking up the churns stopped , the driver beckoning Harry . |
| 27 | A friend picked up a couple in a club . |
| 28 | Apart from the Harris 's hawks , we did n't get a chance to pick up any more birds until late on the second day . |
| 29 | Not every day I get a chance to pick up that kind of money for doing practically nothing . ’ |
| 30 | The plain walls were painted in a typically French eighteenth-century green , a colour picked up in the rich , floral design of the fabric , copied from an eighteenth-century Lyons silk , battened to the adjoining wall , and used for the opulent bed coverings . |