Example sentences of "to pick [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | cos the client might be in a position of saying , well , after six months , I 'm down to half salary , so you might have sold this plan , to pick up the other half , |
| 2 | Er now we , the pensioners , had no choice , we were picked up and put into the new scheme having paid our contributions appropriately to the old scheme rules which were the higher contributions , but only to pick up the new scheme rules that were against our interest . |
| 3 | MIPS expects a number of its OEMs to pick up the new ARCsystems including CDC , Tandem and government integrator AT&T Federal Systems Advanced Technologies which will put its System V/Multi-Level Secure Unix on the boxes . |
| 4 | Little boys of seven , bandy-legged as old men expertly running for cover , little girls of five or six remembering , more often than not , to pick up the new baby and last year 's baby , to grab the two-year-old , the three-year-old before they ran off too . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course , ’ his wife answered , starting to pick up the dirty dishes . |
| 6 | Harvey the conformist was the first of the five remaining customers to pick up the outsize gesture . |
| 7 | About then , word came from Salines , three hours away , to inform Nicholas that the Venetian sugar ship had reached Alexandria and would be leaving soon for Episkopi to pick up the combined Cypriot cargo . |
| 8 | Between about 1947 and 1951 , when the Ritz in Sheffield , Alabama was still open , my main encounters with the place — between the ages of four and eight — were on trips with my father across the river to pick up the final reports on the daily receipts on all four of the Rosenbaum theatres our family owned in Sheffield and Tuscumbia . |
| 9 | Yet a team which is happy to pick up the odd win among the world 's soccer minnows went on to better it against an England side with pretensions to be among the best . |
| 10 | That afternoon , while the same wind , now freshened , still blew across the island and off into the North Sea , Esmerelda and I went out as usual , and stopped off at the shed to pick up the dismantled kite . |
| 11 | GRAHAM TAYLOR is challenging his internationals to pick up the fallen standard of English football , after Wednesday night 's triple European club disaster . |
| 12 | GRAHAM TAYLOR is challenging his internationals to pick up the fallen standard of English football , after Wednesday night 's triple European disaster . |
| 13 | Pepita began to pick up the fallen bananas and place them back in their crate . |
| 14 | He bought groceries to last him the week , then popped next door to the frame shop to pick up the stainless steel frame he 'd ordered for a James Barker black and white print he 'd obtained in an auction some weeks before . |
| 15 | But the red bitch chose that same day to pick up the remaining puppy in her teeth and carry it by the scruff of the neck up the ladder and into the house . |
| 16 | ‘ I think I 'd better be the one , ’ Joanna said , then Robert came out to pick up the remaining chair . |
| 17 | These jelly-filled tubes have electroreceptor cells at their ends , delicate enough to pick up the tiny discharges of the prey 's body . |
| 18 | I never understood why we got in the tangled bureaucratic mess of the community charge to pick up the tiny amount of 3 million out of 42.5 million people . |
| 19 | He worked with scarcely a break to search out a new passage in the files , or to pick up the half-smoked end of his last cigarette from the ashtray , stub it out , light a new one , and put it down in its place . |
| 20 | Once again , although men are capable of this too , the ability is less marked , and many will rely on their women to pick up the intangible clues , or to decode their own shadowy impressions for them . |
| 21 | Another problem which electric fish have circumvented is that very sensitive receptors are needed to pick up the weak signals of other fish , and such receptors would be swamped by the fish 's own field . |
| 22 | He watched Pie'oh'pah stoop to pick up the scattered clothes . |
| 23 | Immediately , her expression and pace of approach changed and instead of the lambasting , or worse , she had seemed about to deliver , she gave the child a tolerant smile and began to pick up the scattered cans . |
| 24 | For such patients we have adopted a policy of exercise testing on the one hand to convince them that they can often do a lot more than they feel like doing , and on the other hand to pick up the occasional patient who has severe residual ischaemia but is not declaring it . |
| 25 | The collection continues to expand , mostly by donation but a very small purchase grant enables Mr Rosoman to pick up the occasional piece at auction : he recently purchased some papier mache moulds at the Christie 's Crowther sale . |
| 26 | He must have felt it too — how could he not when he was so close ; how could he fail to pick up the reckless drumming of her senses ? |
| 27 | The ideal working dress would , therefore , be one in which you could reach up high to bring down the best china , bend down low to pick up the dropped toy , feel comfortable in for walking around the park and pushing a pram or playing ball , not worry about if baby food was deposited on it , move around in easily with a baby on your hip and cover up totally for rolling out pastry or helping with painting . |
| 28 | But worse still , if the pilot is able to pick up the dropped wing after the initial swing , because of the acceleration the controls suddenly become effective , and this often results in the other wing touching just as the aircraft becomes airborne . |
| 29 | For this reason the time required to pick up the tagged record may be rather more than R/2 . |
| 30 | This is another good reason for working samples before starting the actual garment , you will be able to tell whether you need to pick up the laddered stitches or not and that can make a big difference to the overall tension . |