Example sentences of "pick up [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lincoln , in turn , came across the mystery in de Sede 's book Le Tresor Maudit ( The Cursed Treasure ) , which he had picked up for some light holiday reading . |
| 2 | I 'm not saying that I would 've picked up on all those points because |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | I thought you did n't like your German , are you a bit picked up on that then ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The people at the back may not be picked up on this so erm |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | After taking a series of measurements I put a numbered ring on each bird 's leg so that if one came to grief and was picked up at some time in the future , its identity could be established . |
| 12 | A worm , he does n't like it , being picked up like that does he ? |
| 13 | Quite apart from the fact that the hardware was working within one hour of delivery we found that the basic functions of each of the packages had been picked up in less than a day . |
| 14 | C ) Outgoing mail to be picked up from all Divisions and GWM/MAR/CMG out–trays before 10.00am and at 11.00 am , 1.00 pm , 3.45 pm ( 2.45 pm — Friday ) . |
| 15 | He 'd looked around that shabby dwelling and smelled the poverty which he had vowed to help alleviate in his dedicated youth , and to his shame he had thought only of escaping from the fleas he might have picked up from that terrible straw mattress . |
| 16 | I mean , what I was going to say , from what I 've picked up from some of the comments from some of the district , district councils ' consultation it makes me wonder if they 're capable of actually taking on the role of social services in joint commissioning . |
| 17 | Your record does n't have to be picked up by all these routes for promotion , but if you enjoy Record of the Week in NME at the same time as receiving good reviews of your live shows and the occasional play on Radio 1 , this should allow you to make impression on the Indie charts or even the national top 100 . |
| 18 | The manner in which the dolphin receives the returning echoes is also a mystery , but they are thought to be picked up by all parts of the body , to travel through the bones to the head . |
| 19 | it 's solely for , it 's erm i , yo you could have six or seven parcels all picked up in one consignment if it 's picked up by that carrier |
| 20 | But the Hodgsons seem to have over-extended themselves and lost their monopoly on exporting beer to India , which was subsequently picked up by such upstarts as Bass . |
| 21 | Wallerstein elaborated the concept of the semi-periphery to describe such countries , and this idea has been picked up by many scholars as a useful tool in analyzing the NICs and , increasingly , those countries that are on the fringes of the First World , but not exactly in the Third World , like Ireland , Portugal , and the Balkan states ( for example , Mouzelis , 1986 ) . |
| 22 | Italian giants Inter Milan are understood to be watching the situation closely , with Pearce hoping Clough changes his mind and puts him more in line with the kind of wages being picked up by some of his England team-mates . |
| 23 | Just the general feeling of the horse that is picked up by another empathic horse or person . |
| 24 | He was eventually picked up by another driver . |
| 25 | An RS232 interface is provided so that output can be picked up by another device such as a BBC micro with a disc drive . |
| 26 | In other cases the particular translation of a sign may fail to show similarity : the Danish and British signs for WOMAN are different , but the British sign LADY resembles the Danish sign WOMAN ; such information is not picked up by this method of data collection . |
| 27 | But that is not to take anything away from Rogallo whose researches with NACA at the Langley Research Center into Parawings were well known , and had been picked up by several inventive minds in the kite world . |
| 28 | A government spokesman confirmed on May 22 that China had conducted an underground nuclear test ; evidence of a major nuclear explosion had been picked up by several monitoring stations the previous day . |
| 29 | Erm but picking up on that erm for instance I mean er first first impressions are the most important . |
| 30 | 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 . |