Example sentences of "was pick [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the crooks was picked up half-a-mile away and he led them to the tot who was sitting unhurt on a pedestrian walkway . |
| 2 | And it was picking up printer drivers from the A drive . |
| 3 | Now that slow stroll was picking up speed and grim purpose as Jimmy grabbed at a wire ‘ In ’ tray full of papers . |
| 4 | Soon he was picking up speed as his confidence increased and , cruising at a steady 80 m.p.h. , his whole mind centred on the one burning goal of reaching the sanctuary of the distant Bethlehem House . |
| 5 | Traffic had lessened and the Mercedes was picking up speed , but the streets were unfamiliar . |
| 6 | A typical example of such a run originated with police information that a motor yacht named Glisseuse was picking up Asians from Nieuport in Belgium and running them into the Thames Estuary . |
| 7 | ‘ One of the reasons you went to the cinema when I was a teenager was to pick up girls , but I never seemed to have any luck . |
| 8 | And the job there was to pick up tray after tray of tiny little sprigs about that high in little tiny paper cardboard boxes . |