Example sentences of "in [noun] pick [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these small invertebrates — flying insects trapped in webs by spiders , larvae concealed in bark picked out by woodpeckers , molluscs hidden in mud gathered by wading birds , termites licked up by anteaters — all are harvested with little more than the effort expended by those animals that sip nectar and munch pollen , or gather fruit and chew leaves . |
| 2 | A punter at Pontefract races collected £24,843 for a 10p investment while another customer at a Tote betting shop in Paddington picked up £12,421 for a 5p outlay . |
| 3 | There is no reason to believe that , should the demand for labour in industry pick up again , the exodus of young workers from agriculture will not be renewed . |
| 4 | Last year , it acquired the small Abbots and Sussex dairies , also based in the south , and in January picked up part of the Co-operative Wholesale Society 's milk distribution business . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , the woman in question picked up the piece of paper with her name and address on along with all the Sanctuary 's records , and has not been seen since . |
| 6 | The Everglades kite in Florida picks up snails and carries them off to a feeding perch . |
| 7 | Before the fighting started in 1948 , some Palestinians had even arranged to take a holiday in case of hostilities and had called at the Lebanese consulate in Palestine to pick up a visa for Beirut . |
| 8 | The police say his clothes may also have been covered in mud picked up during the attack . |
| 9 | The children in turn pick up the corks in their mouths and dip them into the paint . |
| 10 | The group 's report and accounts also show that the six executive directors are in line to pick up £1.46 million in share option gains by July . |
| 11 | Executive directors are also in line to pick up share option gains totalling £1.4m from schemes operated before SmithKline and Beecham merged three years ago , according to details in the company 's report and accounts , released yesterday . |
| 12 | This causes the contestant to try and get even closer to the opponent 's face with subsequent jabs , in order to pick up that elusive score . |
| 13 | A strange object or sound will result in the ears being fully pricked in the direction of the stimulus , in order to pick up any relevant sounds . |
| 14 | The rod , in order to pick up a long length of sunken line , should be a minimum of 11ft long , and a maximum of 12ft or it becomes unwieldy . |
| 15 | Sites needed to be monitored continuously in order to pick up fluctuations . |
| 16 | She tried however to pin her thoughts on other matters and , recalling that Ven had only returned to Mariánské Láznë in order to pick up some papers , she realised that , since they were important enough for him to make the four-hour return journey , he must want them to hand over to someone else . |
| 17 | Suppose a subject is listening to different sequences of sounds played independently to each ear through a pair of headphones in order to pick out and respond to a particular target sound . |
| 18 | teacher 's nose he or she will think it 's a brilliant laugh to give you so much detention that you 'll be lucky to leave the class in time to pick up your pension . |
| 19 | If she was put into skischool for half a day then one adult had to forgo any skiing for that period , since after delivering the child to the skischool meeting place in the centre of the village the travelling time to the slopes was too long to be able to go up , ski and be back down in time to pick up the child from the skischool in the centre of the village again at the end of her lesson . |
| 20 | If she went straight home now she would make it just in time to pick up her little daughter from her next-door neighbour 's and escort her personally to her appointment . |
| 21 | I managed to get to the wine bar the other side of St Paul 's in time to pick up Rebecca and the bar staff did not seem sad to see her go . |