Example sentences of "and [noun] pick [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The light from the kitchen window was showing up the faintest of impressions on the paper , and Doyle picked up the pad and examined it more closely . |
| 2 | We sat down and Harvey picked up the telephone . |
| 3 | Kelly and Forrester picked up knocks on Saturday but are both expected to be fit for Battyburn . |
| 4 | ‘ There are only two in there , ’ she said , and Sophie picked up another one . |
| 5 | A barrage of punches which started with a swinging left hook left Clarkson on one knee and once the action restarted and Hardy picked up the assault , it was clear the fight would come to a quick conclusion . |
| 6 | His eyes and ears picked out a flashing red light , an insistent warning bleep . |
| 7 | And Bobby picked up the phone when the phone rang and it was her and she sai erm Bob said yes ? |
| 8 | The rest of the legend states that Felix and Regula picked up their heads , waded through the water , and walked up to the hill where the Grossmunster now stands , before expiring . |
| 9 | This one-off personalised scheme with red bars on the fuselage , wings and tailplane picks out the squadron Cross of Lorraine emblem in planform . |
| 10 | ‘ Overall , the forecasts are for a year of slow recovery from the 1991 recession , with production , demand and imports picking up and exports slowing a little ’ he concluded . |
| 11 | The Council 's initiative to set up a multi-professional group to address the borough 's drugs problem was well conceived for it allowed , for the first time , the information and concerns picked up by various parties in relation to heroin to be pulled together . |
| 12 | Mick ( Yarm Piscatorials ) started on the groundbait feeder and maggot picking up mainly dace and a sprinkling of roach then , as the tide dropped , switched to the stickfloat down the edge to net the bulk of his winning haul . |
| 13 | Though the Greater Manchester pension fund investment had been blocked by Stockport council , the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive was still game , and Everett picked up a cheque for £175,000 from a suspicious representative who demanded proof that he was really the man from Guinness Mahon . |
| 14 | As mentioned in the May issue of Medau News Bedu celebrated her 50th birthday this year , and with it , 25 years of Medau teaching ; to mark the occasion she was presented with a silver pendant in the form of a framed Medau logo in silver , along with a birthday cake iced in blue , with hoops , clubs and balls picked out in white . |
| 15 | It was a mostly garbled , semi-literate report put together by the free-lance Ichaelan spy , largely based on idle remarks and hints and speculations picked up from technicians who had worked on Ardakke . |
| 16 | Jan sat on one of our original moquette chairs and Darren picked up the atmosphere and , for the first time since I 'd met him , sat on a chair in silence . |
| 17 | The Palace Girls , needless to say , were hungry to start with ; nevertheless they had to exist for seventeen long hours on bananas and chocolate picked up at wayside stations . |
| 18 | Lisa settled down with the bulldog clip that held the current day 's orders , and Folly picked up the accounts book . |
| 19 | About his waist he wore an elegant ta lien , or girdle pouch , the border a thick band of russet , the twin heart-shaped pockets made of a soft peach cloth , the details of trees , butterflies and flowers picked out in emerald green and blue and gold . |
| 20 | Even in the mid-afternoon there were still copies of most of the morning 's newspapers , and Carson picked up a couple at random . |
| 21 | Sophie watched as he led her into the office and Joanna picked up a chair . |
| 22 | The local press and radio picked up the story and carried it week after week — for a couple of years the gay struggle was big news for the folks back home . |
| 23 | In 1987 detectors in Japan and America picked up a ten-second burst of neutrinos from the collapse of a giant star . |
| 24 | What 's more , with so much emphasis placed upon cultivating a creative youth — schools and parents actively promoting music , local radio and TV picking up regional talent , the reasonable cost of good equipment and the ease with which quality demos and records can be made , plus the all-round encouragement young people receive in all recreational pursuits these days — means it was almost certainly harder to break out in those starchy , stifling times than it is now . |
| 25 | With Steve Bull suffering from the worst goalscoring drought of his career and Wolves picking up just three points from a possible 21 , Turner faces problems . |
| 26 | When the room number and balance pick up check digits are entered they are verified electronically and if incorrect the terminal will reject the entire entry as invalid thus eliminating a common error in posting to guest 's folio . |
| 27 | ‘ Thallium , ’ you said , ‘ job for you ! ’ and thallium picked up the papers , simpered , and went out into the world to do your bidding . |