Example sentences of "he [modal v] pick [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a mark of Hilton 's clarity of thought and practical spirituality that he should pick up the episcopal ideal of a composite life-style and set it up as the modus vivendi for a spiritually — minded temporal lord . |
| 2 | Chapman predicts : ‘ He 'll pick up a little prize before the end of the year . |
| 3 | He might pick up a truth or two perhaps from servants or villagers of the Old Baron 's generation . ’ |
| 4 | After a week or two 's good behaviour Nigel began to feel the need to prove to himself that he could pick up a genuine , bona-fide amateur about the same age as Caroline — someone young enough to be his daughter , in other words . |
| 5 | Though he could pick up a bit on the stable management , if he 'd a mind . |
| 6 | If only he could pick up the rock and hurl it , defiantly , to reciprocate the violence with such a true aim , that it would smash whatever the chosen target . |
| 7 | He could pick up the fear . |
| 8 | I do not suppose I am the first naive monolinguist who thought he could pick up the language on the street , somehow acquiring it passively just by basking in the babble of the market , like getting a tan . |
| 9 | ‘ He said he 'd pick up a spare part for me today , and he has n't , which is why we fell out earlier and why I 'm on my way now to pick it up myself . |
| 10 | Then he would pick up the silver hair-brush and groom her hair in slow strokes from its dark roots to its glowing auburn ends . |
| 11 | José informed us in perfect English that he would pick up the sail in the morning and deliver it , completely repaired , by that afternoon . |
| 12 | Now Mr. Lennis is turning them all into tramps , sending them all over the place wherever he can pick up a cargo . |
| 13 | The ball over the top , the low firm crosses driven in so that he can pick up the pieces . |
| 14 | ‘ Obviously , he 's a big man and we can bang the ball up to him so he can pick up the crumbs . |
| 15 | He can pick out a charlatan at a hundred yards . ’ |