Example sentences of "picked up in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think the Arthur Daley image , picked up in the 50s and 60s , is unfair now but people still expect to be greeted by a young man in a sharp suit who baffles them with technical details and hard sell . ’ |
| 2 | In East Yorkshire they are glacial erratics , stones picked up in the last Ice Age , worn smooth , and deposited as the ice retreated . |
| 3 | It 's something I picked up in the Trow . ’ |
| 4 | And its suggested ‘ activities ’ , like rearing silkworms , bore no resemblance to our gang meetings , where we planned raids on greenhouses , smoked cigarette ends picked up in the street or watched Brian Fish eat a live worm . |
| 5 | In 1978 fog at Heathrow airport prevented me from flying to referee the first ever game between France and Russia , and in 1981 a leg injury picked up in the First Test prevented me refereeing the Second Test between France and New Zealand . |
| 6 | Paul Stewart is also having treatment on a knee injury picked up in the same match and is fighting to be fit for Monday 's Merseyside derby . |
| 7 | Is not social work the application of skills picked up in the ‘ University of Life ’ and do we not all know what deprived infants and troublesome adolescents need ? |
| 8 | A colour brochure I picked up in the hall speaks of the ‘ 27 acres of secluded grounds with magnificent views over the Moray Firth and the Ross-shire hills beyond … imposing combination of Georgian and Scottish Baronial architecture … four course table d'hôte menu of very high class plus an à la carte menu including a range of steaks charcoal grilled … ’ : no mention of David Thomson . |
| 9 | The plain walls were painted in a typically French eighteenth-century green , a colour picked up in the rich , floral design of the fabric , copied from an eighteenth-century Lyons silk , battened to the adjoining wall , and used for the opulent bed coverings . |
| 10 | Things picked up in the forties , of course , during the war . |
| 11 | ALAN SHEARER 'S success at Blackburn Rovers is reflected in the massive signing-on fee he picked up in the record move . |
| 12 | Sheffield Wednesday midfielder John Sheridan has had to withdraw from the Republic squad , following the thigh injury picked up in the FA Cup final replay defeat against Arsenal on Thursday at Wembley . |
| 13 | So far , more than 2,000 bodies picked up in the border area have been sent back to their families . |
| 14 | allow and they reckon that soft ones are better suited too sports because , because of the great action they 're harder to , to knock out , whereas soft ones er , have better other qualities , I 've got this little fucking book , book that I picked up in the Boots in Farnborough the other day yes , its quite interesting . |