Example sentences of "pick [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Detective-Sergeant 's keen ears had picked up the dripping tap in the bathroom . |
| 2 | Hannon had picked up the first two races as well after starting the day with no confidence at all . |
| 3 | And it looks as though it 's picked up the middle page . |
| 4 | Gary Shandling , host of the ceremony in Los Angeles , warned the audience after Clapton had picked up the Best Album Grammy : ‘ If you are up in any other categories against Eric Clapton , I would go home now . ’ |
| 5 | It rang for a long time , and he thought he was going to be out of luck , but eventually the receiver was picked up the other end . |
| 6 | I crossed the hall and had actually picked up the offending item before realizing its full implication ; my father , I recalled , had been brushing the entrance hall a half-hour or so earlier . |
| 7 | I much regret that such a new Member of Parliament should have picked up the churlish habits of other Labour Members . |
| 8 | They have picked up the wrong book and are probably in the wrong bookstore . |
| 9 | However , as I replaced the cap , to my utter amazement , I noticed it was labelled ‘ Geranium ’ — I had picked up the wrong bottle . |
| 10 | It has much improved printer support , though , and with 3D graphs at long last arriving on the Lotus menu , some users will think they 've picked up the wrong spreadsheet ! |
| 11 | This year it was ever-reliable Tony Humphries who shifted the club world on its axis and demolished the Sound Factory Bar by creating an hour-long mega-mix out of a tune he 'd picked up the previous week during one of his periodical spinning visits to Switzerland . |
| 12 | From the same papyri we learn that the Ptolemies had picked up the well-known Sheikh of Transjordan , Tobiah , to command the military settlers in his territory . |
| 13 | In an improbable , but typical , detour in a review of a book about corsets , she asks : ‘ How has it come about that feminists have picked up the masculine notion that those women who are n't self-confessed feminists do n't known what they 're doing , half the time ? ’ |
| 14 | If the pension funds and insurance companies had waited they could have picked up the same properties at a far lower price . |
| 15 | Emil , who must have picked up the same signals , spoke with a true leader 's decisiveness . |
| 16 | Earlier , holidaying in the less exotic Yorkshire resort of Filey she had picked up the American Beat anthology Protest , one of the volumes triggered by the ‘ on the road ’ boom after 1957 . |
| 17 | The police had picked up the red sports car nine miles south of Ashford in Kent . |
| 18 | Below the soft throb of the music , his increased sense of hearing had picked up the quiet click of the outer door to his private suite being closed . |
| 19 | She 'd picked up the literary allusion immediately , and enjoyed those few seconds during which the man 's intensely blue eyes had held her own . |
| 20 | The reigning European Barefoot Champion has picked up the British Waterski Federation 's highest award for her outstanding achievments . |
| 21 | as if to prove it , our green-fingered experts have again picked up the top prizes in Aberdeen district council 's gardening competition . |
| 22 | And it 's carried over our list , so we 've actually picked up the seven two O five now as single source . |
| 23 | Without another word , Bert Rafferty gently picked up the frightened child and made towards the cliff . |
| 24 | He had picked out the only Georgian-born individual purely on the strength of his personal feelings . |
| 25 | She picked up a hand mirror , but what she saw was not reassuring ; the harsh overhead light remorselessly picked out the tiny lines at the corners of her mouth , the discoloured skin around her eyes , the dry , wrinkled neck . |
| 26 | The screws , it seemed , had picked out the eight most troublesome in the house , most of which were YCs . |
| 27 | He made very few mistakes and so often picked out the right line on the greens , lines which at the time I doubted , that I left the decisions to him . ’ |
| 28 | FIFTEEN years ago few would have picked out the blue-collar Industrial National Bank of Rhode Island to emerge in the 1990s as the pre-eminent banking power in patrician New England . |
| 29 | than a poet ever could ; picking up the smallest insects |
| 30 | Picking up the long gun , Doyle ran his finger along the barrel and then held it out to the Hare-woman . |