Example sentences of "be [v-ing] to pick [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you do n't tell them that you 're going to pick up a thirty five percent deposit cheque . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're managing to pick up the sound of one of the males , ’ said a marine biologist , Vassili Papastavrou , as he listened intently through a set of headphones . |
| 3 | Then say that you are going to pick up the cards in any order , which you do keeping the pairs together . |
| 4 | In the more stable area people were returning to pick up the pieces of their lives . |
| 5 | I had been trying to pick up a barman in a pub in Hammersmith . |
| 6 | In a land where trendy cafés display neon signs reading SMACK BAR and SNATCH BAR , no one 's going to pick up the linguistic and social markers that pin the native Brit down like so many Lilliputian bonds . |
| 7 | Mierle Laderman Ukele proposed an exhibition about maintenance called Care in 1969 : ‘ After the revolution who 's going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning ? ’ |
| 8 | So I 've got to ring Phil and see what time he 's going to pick up the freezer in the morning ? |
| 9 | He 's having to pick up the equivalent of |
| 10 | Now , at this very moment , he is trying to pick up the pieces of his life after you have shattered it so cruelly — ’ |
| 11 | ICL plc is hoping to pick up the baton and ‘ bring parallel processing into the mainstream ’ sometime in 1994 with the release of a relational database engine for commercial transaction processing that can scale up to 256 superscalar Sparc RISC chips . |
| 12 | His family believed he was going to pick up a bankers draft , but he never showed there and he never reported to hospital . |
| 13 | I had no doubts that he was going to pick up the package . |
| 14 | Having come to terms with the failure of her marriage , she was trying to pick up the broken bits of her pride , glue them together , and get on with her life . |
| 15 | He looked around the shop for Emmanuel , who was trying to pick up an elderly man in a smart business suit . |