Example sentences of "pick [adv prt] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose you are required to perform the simple task of placing each of a pile of twenty counters into a jam jar , picking up one counter at a time and dropping it into the jar . |
| 2 | If you have to do the collating yourself , lay each separate page-pile next to each other around the room and go round picking up one page after the other , until you have the whole pamphlet together . |
| 3 | Instead , it was Ireland batsman Charlie McCrum who made the difference , scoring and also conceding just runs in his overs , picking up one wicket along the way . |
| 4 | Angelica reckoned that she was a reasonable judge of people — one could hardly be a nurse for twenty years without picking up one hell of a lot of insight — and it had n't taken her long to decide that Alina Peterson was either dead straight or very plausible . |
| 5 | If this were the case , most people , whose call is to marriage , would be able to pick up one message and one message only from celibates . |
| 6 | ‘ Of course we are , ’ Ross told them , bending down to pick up one twin and then the other . |
| 7 | A Japanese freighter left Yokohama in mid-August , with its name and port of registration blanked out , to pick up one tonne of plutonium extracted from spent nuclear fuel at the Cap La Hague reprocessing plant in France . |
| 8 | I wish to pick up one matter from his speech — that of dyslexia . |
| 9 | My hon. Friend is right : if one tries to pick out one element and not the others , the result may not be beneficial . |
| 10 | Any attempt to pick out one concept , such as that of an individual , and theorise about it , will always be vulnerable to the challenge , ‘ But how is that concept to be explained ? ’ |
| 11 | It 's only too easy to say , oh yes , we can make chairs … we can make kitchens and three-piece suites … grand pianos , anything you like , but what we have to do is to pick out one thing that we think is a winner and actually do that properly . ’ |
| 12 | No , I never pick up the phone , they do that , pick up one phone and speak for a minute , while that ones ringing they say hold on a minute , and pick up the other one . |
| 13 | If you , if you are standing like this and you pick up one foot you will slightly raise your pelvis on the opposite side wo n't you ? |
| 14 | Pick up one edge of band with wrong side facing you . |
| 15 | The function contains a loop which picks up one character at a time and classifies it . |
| 16 | Any complex referential symbol , or a string of such symbols , theoretically speaking , can apply to any number of individuals , but a proper name picks out one object , and one object only , spanning , as it were , the latter 's entire career . |
| 17 | The central idea here is that a proper name qua proper name not only picks out one object only , but unlike a descriptive phrase designates that same object in " every possible world " ; a " possible world " being understood as representing a possible but unactualised situation , or a series of situations , of which the given object might be a feature . |
| 18 | She picks out one letter from Damascus , sent via Geneva . |
| 19 | He can only pick up one person and throw him two metres … |
| 20 | Cos otherwise if you start doing it now then I might just pick up one person again and again , cos we will check as customers but we want you to take otherwise it gets very very confusing and I do n't wan na miss any of you . |
| 21 | So nobody 's singled out — I do n't pick out one team . |
| 22 | One five-year-old , for instance , when asked to make one pile so it was tiv , picked up one coin from it , placed it between the two piles , and announced that it was tiv . |
| 23 | I picked up one photograph only : Leon in profile , back to the camera , dancing formally with a girl , his hand raised with hers , his head solicitously inclined to her young , upturned , joyful face . |
| 24 | She picked up one mug and by the light of the torch saw a pea-green mould on the dregs of coffee . |