Example sentences of "pick [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly Helen has looked for ‘ explanations ’ to help her deal with such a painful experience , and the one she seems to have come up with is that she was picked on for the way she looks . |
| 2 | The few gypsies remaining on the site this afternoon , who 've asked not to be identified , claim they were picked on in a motiveless attack . |
| 3 | However , despite the way teachers represented their views Mr and Mrs Shod doubted the severity of the problem : ‘ I do n't think he 's any worse than other kids — he 's picked on by the school . ’ |
| 4 | Some Sutton pupils expressed worries about being picked on by the ‘ bigger ones ’ and were concerned about going into the same playground . |
| 5 | Were they picked on by the police , the people in the , cos that seems a pretty severe sentence . |
| 6 | However , if we do not like being judged by an external tribunal , if we do not like our citizens being interrogated by foreign judges about acts committed in the United Kingdom , if we do not like our Acts of Parliament and our internal administration being scrupulously picked over by a European Commission , if we do not like the relations between the Crown and its possessions being altered over our heads , the remedy is in our own hands . |
| 7 | There is no official collection because it is immediately picked over by a series of scavengers — first adults , then children , then dogs and cats . |
| 8 | Sometimes we went to the Cours Mirabeau and watched the debris from the daily market being picked over by the local dogs . |
| 9 | Each month 's results are picked over in the business 's board meeting , with a head-office manager present in a non-executive role . |
| 10 | It was hell for McColgan as she was picked off in the run-in for a consolation bronze . |
| 11 | Bradshaw himself got picked off by a thirty-footer and lost his board . |
| 12 | The last time a defending champion lost as early as the second round of the US Open was in 1989 when Mats Wilander was picked off by a young Pete Sampras . |
| 13 | Bardul uses this chamber to store an amazing range of things which he has picked up over the years in the hope that one day they might be useful . |
| 14 | The four were Donna Maguire , arrested in Turnhout , Belgium , on June 16 , who was wanted in connexion with attacks in West Germany in 1989 ; Gerard Majella Harte , arrested over the Dutch border on June 16 , after evading Belgian police near Turnhout , with a man provisionally named as Michael Collins who escaped in handcuffs but was later picked up over the Dutch border in Chaam , on June 18 ; and Paul Hughes , who drove through a police checkpoint in Chaam on June 18 and was arrested there on June 19 . |
| 15 | The returning echoes are believed to be picked up through the fatty interior of the lower jaw . |
| 16 | A skill he has obviously picked up under the guidance of Dalglish . |
| 17 | Instead , we gradually get the horse used to having its feet picked up , little by little , until it will tolerates having its feet picked up for a longer time without causing any fuss . |
| 18 | She led the way into the communal hall which she personally had taken upon herself to brighten up with a vase of dried flowers and a couple of good , but ancient , rugs which she had picked up for a song at an auction sale . |
| 19 | In Britain , those from the late Fifties and Sixties fetch about Pounds 1 , while pre-war badges can usually be picked up for a few pounds . |
| 20 | After Arnold died , Nancy , feeling more strongly than ever what she had always known , that he was the only man she had loved , came to live permanently in the house where he had always seemed happiest , a piece of property he had picked up for a song in the sixties from Barone Dulcibene 's father-in-law , old Count Umberto Baderini . |
| 21 | It dropped again at first but eventually picked up for a lively last lap . |
| 22 | Instead , it lists a range of different losses which , the writs served on the two firms last March allege , should have been picked up during the course of the audits . |
| 23 | How else could it be so swiftly known that a prominent member of the Royal College of Acupuncturists , say , had been picked up during the night and pinched for drunk-driving ? |
| 24 | Films such as The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ) , where a psychologist 's efforts to reform the mugger he 's picked up off the street are subverted by his own drives and the desires of his wife , The Criminal ( 1960 , The Concrete Jungle in US ) , in which Stanley Baker plays a loner trapped between the violent prison system and the criminal underworld , or The Servant ( 1963 ) , in which butler is pitched against master , focus on tensions in British society much more interesting than anything opened up by Anderson 's contemporaries . |
| 25 | I saw him when we got picked up off the I mean it was half a lifeboat we were left sitting on . |
| 26 | that I 've just picked up off the here . |
| 27 | But this information is also readily available if the ferret is fitted with a transmitting device within its collar and the signals from this are picked up on a hand-held receiver . |
| 28 | It was picked up on a £300 scanner near Andrew 's naval base at Portland , Dorset . |
| 29 | Now I 'm not for a mom , I 'm not for a moment suggesting that it 's something that would be picked up on a regular basis , but I think it does mean , as you rightly say , that er , if , if , if such a procedure does arise then I 'm conscious that I 'm in a one off situation , I know there 's at least one of our colleagues on our benches who has this on , with children on a more regular basis . |
| 30 | To be completely safe , he activated his automatic call-signal which would be picked up on the ground . |