Example sentences of "pick up the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another one to fall by the wayside with a 78 was Ray Floyd , who had picked up the US Open title Norman had let slip through his grasp a few weeks before . |
| 2 | He arrived home from picking up the Sunday morning bagels and the lad from Sunday school , to find his study full of arc lamps and white coats , and to have his sleeve wrenched unceremoniously up and a needle shoved in his vein . |
| 3 | Walker scored nine tries in the event , picking up the MVP ( shades of the US — most valuable player ) award . |
| 4 | I 'm picking up the PR material in a couple of weeks . |
| 5 | GGT 's string of new business wins continued this week with the agency picking up the Cussons personal care account . |
| 6 | Now before you do anything , if we set set it to pick up the Panasonic K X P Eleven Twenty Four |
| 7 | Everyone made it back to the rendezvous where they laid up for the day , returning in the evening to pick up the SBS group which had managed to deal with the radio station . |
| 8 | So it was that — ill-equipped , ignoring all warnings , and unable to pick up the BBC World Service on our radio — we confronted El Jocoso without guides and in a thunderstorm . |
| 9 | and get it there then go back back home swap cars , pick up the Metro and drive over to Southwold . |
| 10 | Annie Lennox 's first solo LP Diva ( an ironic title , she claims ) will comfortably pick up the Eurythmics ' many fans , but to me its high-quality designer soul has a sterile scent . |
| 11 | I expect you remember being taken and fetched each day — some four or five miles — sometimes by me and sometimes by Ruth Donnison — and how you used to fume when we picked up the Khin Zaw 's children who were always late . |
| 12 | The New York Film Critics Circle gave Emma , 33 , its top honour after she picked up the DW Griffith and Los Angeles Critics awards for her portrayal of Helen Schlegel in the adaptation of E M Forster 's novel , Howards End . |
| 13 | After it she felt soothed of any irritation she may have felt with the last letter , wiped her mouth with satisfaction , and picked up the Oswaldston Gazette . |
| 14 | Fred picked up the Guinness and swallowed half of it . |
| 15 | We picked up the Lorrimores ’ car at one point three miles west of Cartier . |
| 16 | Cos I picked up the Chester to Wrexham one instead of the Snowdonia one . |
| 17 | Alex went over to the mantelpiece and picked up the Concorde ticket . |
| 18 | But er we went from erm Quay , we did stay at Belfast for a about erm just er a few hours , picked up the Belfast passengers , they , they , we did n't dock there , we they came on by tender . |
| 19 | I wanted to do it , but every time I picked up the Bic , a job came up . |
| 20 | NICK FALDO picked up the Ritz Club Golfer of the Year award and the Vardon Trophy , given to the European Tour 's leading money-winner , at the Tour 's annual dinner in London last night . |
| 21 | In May 1987 , in a £98 million deal , he picked up the Garfunkels restaurant chain . |
| 22 | Then I picked up the Nescafe tin and prised the lid off . |
| 23 | Graham picked up the Makarova and shot the second Arab as he turned his pistol on Laidlaw . |
| 24 | After winning the Berkhamsted he went back to his home club and picked up the Watson Trophy with a 69 . |
| 25 | Having left Scratchwood a few moments after the other vehicle , the mustard-coloured van , its roof rack carrying a decorator 's ladder , also turned off at Junction 4 , but then picked up the Uxbridge road before turning south towards Harrow-on-the-Hill and the home of Beth and Ali Christie . |