Example sentences of "pick up [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think if he 's making pronouncements which are being picked up and treated as very important , and they 're only being treated as important because of his position then he should be ba , getting his facts right ! |
| 2 | Er now we , the pensioners , had no choice , we were picked up and put into the new scheme having paid our contributions appropriately to the old scheme rules which were the higher contributions , but only to pick up the new scheme rules that were against our interest . |
| 3 | There were incendiaries scattered all over the airfield for days , being picked up and made safe — another job for the armourers . |
| 4 | I wrote a letter to The Times about this lunacy , and it was picked up and ridiculed by all the national papers . |
| 5 | Well this , this is what I 'm saying , if it had been picked up and followed through at an earlier stage he would have been ensconced |
| 6 | All fatalities associated with this species have occurred when swimmers or divers have casually picked up and handled the octopus . |
| 7 | When I designed the L.game it seemed obvious from the rules I had written that the pieces could be picked up and placed anywhere on the board . |
| 8 | Ultimately , however , it is a book to be picked up and read . |
| 9 | This indicates how the proponents of ‘ law and order ’ have picked up and run with the ball that was set rolling by the Justice Model , with very different effects from those that the Justice Model 's original advocates desired or expected . |
| 10 | Well it would be I suppose it would be possible that that they could start their time together and work right through for years together , but invariably er that did n't happen because people were picked up and laid off as the boat progressed , er and if er Y you may get a a run for the one yard would need , say , six squads of of riveters , in a hurry . |
| 11 | When the sweetness was all sucked out they murmured that their legs were tired , and cried until they were picked up and carried home . |
| 12 | She felt herself being picked up and carried , but she had n't the strength to struggle . |
| 13 | If the horse is going to be shod , it should already be accustomed to having its feet picked up and filed . |
| 14 | Such views are often picked up and repeated by non-finance specialists ( e.g. Hill , 1985 ) . |
| 15 | Partly this is due to better treatment , but the lion 's share of the credit must go to the invention of the smear test , which means that small growths can be picked up and destroyed before they get out of hand . |
| 16 | He was then picked up and rode the entire parade sitting between Campese and Kearns . |
| 17 | An alternative explanation , however , is that rhythms with a 24-hour period are received from the external world — but that these are picked up and transmitted to the body clock less effectively in premature babies . |
| 18 | The worms crawl onto the sticks , which can then be picked up and dipped directly into the fry tank . |
| 19 | At the end of the Gulf War , British Army authorities announced they would have to destroy all dogs which had been picked up and kept by British units in the war zone , but Dave and his colleagues decided they were n't going to let this cruel fate befall Des . |
| 20 | but you 've got a very nice way of actually listening and you 'll actually learn far more about people by listening than actually talking so erm I found that quite picked up and pinpoint areas contact er eye contact , that was good , stayed in control , not too pushy yeah . |
| 21 | They really do stand a better chance being left there to their own devices for the parents to feed them the right diet than being picked up and brought here . |
| 22 | The stable , dry pedal boats can be picked up and dropped off at any of 5 moorings in the heart of the City . |
| 23 | ’ ‘ ard to bruise a ‘ tato , but even ‘ arder to sell a bunch of grapes that 's been picked up and dropped a few times . ’ |
| 24 | Four of the watchers , experienced men , not easy to shock , had to undergo therapy as they described how the figure of the youth was picked up and hurled twenty yards towards them , like a rag doll , first flying , then bouncing and rolling in a twisted assembly of disjointed limbs . |
| 25 | in village , not far up us and er I were getting round me mum and pulling on her skirts and and this old woman says , get him fed Frances , he wants a bit of pap , get him , get him picked up and give him a bit of pap and that 'll shut him up |
| 26 | First , because it is evident that many of the problems which the Authority identified in 1985 when it established PNP were centred as much on professional attitudes as professional expertise — attitudes to children , to curriculum , to teaching methods , to parents , to ethnic minority groups , to gender issues — and indeed we have picked up and reported the resilience of many of the attitudes which the Authority sought to change . |
| 27 | Charlton was picked up and carried to Hewett 's house where medical help was soon to hand . |
| 28 | In December 1987 two stray Rough Collies , a bitch of about 15 months old and a dog of about 18 months , were picked up and taken to a police station near Oxford . |
| 29 | Oilbars can be picked up and used , put down and left , and even after long intervals picked up and used again immediately without lengthy preparation . |
| 30 | He wanted to be picked up and wrung out like a floor cloth to get the stuff out of his system . |