Example sentences of "pick [adv prt] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not saying that I would 've picked up on all those points because |
| 2 | The Wall Street Journal has now picked up on that story we reported last month that Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc are working together to build the Macintosh System 7.1 look and feel atop Novell 's MS-DOS-compatible DR DOS to run on Intel Corp iAPX-86-based machines ( UX No 429 ) . |
| 3 | Meantime the Wall Street Journal has now picked up on that story we reported last month that Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc are working together to build the Macintosh System 7.1 look and feel atop Novell 's MS-DOS-compatible DR DOS to run on iAPX-86-based machines ( CI No 2,133 ) . |
| 4 | I thought you did n't like your German , are you a bit picked up on that then ? |
| 5 | Back in Manchester a glossy fanzine called Muze had picked up on this story and published a naively frivolous article which dared to question the somewhat confused ethical position of the band . |
| 6 | It 's nice to have but it remains a novelty : only IBM and Epson have picked up on this new format with any degree of enthusiasm . |
| 7 | Long afterwards , when it was over , when he could finally bear to think of it all , he understood that , deep down , Laura had not expected to live beyond thirty and that , without realizing it , he had picked up on this and joined in the relentless , exhausting determination to sample life to the fullest . |
| 8 | The people at the back may not be picked up on this so erm |
| 9 | I think probably the implications and a lot of people have er picked up on this as the policy has developed , is that er well they 're they 're concerned that the policy is in fact too flexible now because of how it is being interpreted by other people . |
| 10 | Erm but picking up on that erm for instance I mean er first first impressions are the most important . |
| 11 | Eve , picking up on some of Ari 's melancholy without understanding the cause , hugged her as they thundered along the straight , smooth road that led to the city . |
| 12 | On the product front — and picking up on some of the work it did for ACE — the company says an Intel Corp P5-specific SCO Unix kernel is a possibility . |
| 13 | one is that i it may be that the old moral economy worked because the peasants recognized that , in a sense , that was the way they w well they , they could not stand up and criticize the landlord th the , the most they could do was to try and get the landlord to behave in a reasonable way , and that within that there would then be the sub-culture , the counter-culture of , of beginnings of mutual aid and what is happening in is in part that the communists are making them think the old moral economy work , but in part they are picking up on those sub- culture bits because the , the , the whole of mutual aid idea is , is coming from existing peasant cooperations . |
| 14 | Right , I want to pick up on I 've started looking at your tests , the history of language ones and I 've actually marked only the section where you actually re-wrote the er , early modern English extract , and I want to pick up on that instantly , and talk about that and the ways you you , the way you can go around , no I 'm not gon na give you that . |
| 15 | More surprises will come , because Wall Street has proved slow to pick up on such clues . |
| 16 | Good referees are quick to pick up on this and impose penalties for persistent offenders . |
| 17 | The more advanced desktop publishing packages have begun to pick up on this requirement but few can manage either the length or the revision information that the typical TechDoc user needs . |
| 18 | Chairman I would like to pick up on this point about the identification of sites . |
| 19 | I am now wondering what possibilities are available to pick up on these again at this stage or in the future . |
| 20 | Material body , organism , behaviour , vibes , expression , self : I pick up on all of it . |
| 21 | and how you feel yourself , that 's how you present yourself to other people , I think if you present yourself in a confident manner , I think people pick up on that and I do , I do n't think beauty is necessarily what you see , I think its how you feel within yourself and how you present yourself to people . |
| 22 | You know , young , homeless people we pick up on this bus and er , we have , we we 've sort of ended up pursuing their cases with the housing department and getting temporary accommodation . |
| 23 | Perhaps we sort through this original question we can pick up on that . |
| 24 | Can I pick up on that last point Professor Lock and throw out a question generally in response to what you and Mr Donson have said . |
| 25 | Even if the adventurers do n't pick up on this clue and seek out Drachenfels for themselves , they will find that , little by little , their steps are being directed northwards , out of the Vaults and into the Grey Mountains — towards Castle Drachenfels . |
| 26 | Can I just just just move on cos I think the first thing we 're gon na pick up on this is this entitlement business again . |
| 27 | Interesting that you picked up on that one . |
| 28 | Monsoon picked up on that . |
| 29 | For some reason he picked up on that word and let her cool statement go by for the moment . |
| 30 | I th there was , there was one big point that I actually missed out as well that neither of you have picked up on and that was that Maggie actually said that they were having problems with John in school and I should 've come back and , and said well she di she actually said that she was having problems with John , full stop , and I should 've actually come back and , and clarified whether it was at school or not and hence led to the private education and I missed that one completely and realized that I 'd done it afterwards but none of you picked up on that one . |