Example sentences of "pick [adv prt] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite his remark that ‘ The superego seems to have made a one-sided choice and to have picked out only the parents ’ strictness and severity , their prohibiting and punitive function , whereas their loving care seems not to have been taken over and maintained , ’ he states elsewhere that ‘ The superego fulfils the same function of protecting and saving that was fulfilled in earlier days by the father . ’ |
| 2 | It has to privatise an entire industry and can not run the risk of the City picking up only the most attractive pieces . |
| 3 | Surely Baldwin , whatever his desire earlier in the imbroglio , can not at this stage have wished to go back to the Cabinet on the following morning and announce that a wayward King , who had already compromised his position with most opinion both at home and in the Dominions , had suddenly changed his mind , at least temporarily , and , having attracted the maximum publicity to his preference for Mrs Simpson over the Throne , was now prepared to ditch her and try to pick up again the pieces of kingship . |
| 4 | The accounting implications of generic strategies , however , go far beyond this , but , before addressing them , it is appropriate here to pick up again the ROI debate left uncompleted in chapter 3 . |
| 5 | Trained to pick up even the faintest change in vibrations . |
| 6 | Paige strained her ears to pick up even the slightest sound . |
| 7 | The broad native roads made as straight as possible for their mark , like the roads of the Romans , seem to pick out preferentially the highest and steepest hills , which they ascend perpendicularly and without compromise . |
| 8 | Thus , our next task here it to pick out briefly the relevant parts of our analysis of the social distribution of innovatory realizations of /a/ and /Ε/,; as identified in section 4.6 . |
| 9 | Pick off just the first flush of flowers from the ever-bearing kinds . |
| 10 | Then , using a two pronged transfer tool , pick up just the end stitch and put it on the end needle ( 1 ) . |
| 11 | And if you turn over onto page four , and at last pick up both the graph and the figures that are shown there and if it helps members , I can also put up the figures on the I suspect not , I think there 's , it becomes a little small for people . |
| 12 | On sites rich in fossils , collectors often become bored with the commoner animals and pick up only the rarer ones . |
| 13 | With our minds clearly on strategy formulation , we shall then pick up again the debate about return on investment ( ROI ) begun in chapter 3 , but put aside until a better understanding of ‘ strategic fit ’ had been developed in chapter 4 . |
| 14 | They ca n't even pick up just the words that are English words only pronounced in the Orcadian way . |
| 15 | I mean it does n't pick up precisely the same colour but that in there |
| 16 | If I can pick up specifically the point that er , Mrs was making this , this morning , under the children looked after heading , under strategy , it 's priority objective one and strategy two , you 'll see in there that it is the intention to put in some two hundred thousand pounds for er , for community er , based resources . |
| 17 | Overnight , the fighting calmed down a little but it picked up again the next morning and raged on throughout the day . |
| 18 | She picked up both the paper and the keys , and this time held her arms out immediately in front of her — where she could keep her eye on both at the same time . |