Example sentences of "to pick [adv prt] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment it seems that Labour is poised to pick up a good swathe of its targets — but not , yet , quite enough of them to put Mr Kinnock safely into Downing Street . |
| 2 | In a good postwar election year , the Conservatives would normally expect to pick up a respectable number of seats in Northern England and to some extent in Scotland . |
| 3 | Yes , well these , all wasps of course , er tend to er hit the fruit juice at this time of the year , and that fruit juice is very often fermenting , and you get a particularly er waspish reaction , er naturally , when er somebody goes to pick up a fallen apple or windfall pear , and they pick up a handful of wasp , inadvertently , and I think this year , particularly with a shortage of water , more wasps of all species have been driven to attack fruit , er and are feeding on the er fruit juice , much of which is fermenting . |
| 4 | Wheelchair athlete Ian Hayden from Sutton Courtenay near Abingdon overcame an arm injury to pick up a second silver medal at the Paralympic Games in Barcelona . |
| 5 | She walked over to the pond and bent to pick up a small pebble , skimming it across the glittering water , watching the way it bounced , then sank , leaving behind it only ripples . |
| 6 | But what I had also noticed was that certain firms for example that w were er th then extant , er they in fact would s er say have a three-piece moved , and you 'd have a huge van would go to pick up a three-piece suite . |
| 7 | ‘ Not the sort of place you 'd go to pick up a new ribbon ? ’ |
| 8 | After a year or two I was nipping out at lunchtime to pick up a new skirt for the office party , calling at the dry cleaners , handing in the photos to be developed and meeting friends for lunch with the best of them . |
| 9 | Bruce Springsteen managed to pick up a new house for £2 million less than the asking price . |
| 10 | Because of this , it can operate for 15 hours continuously at full power , stopping only to pick up a new coal pack . |
| 11 | His experiments on the nature of lightning were truly pioneering , starting at Marly in France where a dragoon was persuaded to pick up a long brass wire inside a glass bottle which acted as an insulator . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She pretended to pick up a dropped paper napkin . |
| 14 | In IBM 's method , the electrode tip moves up and down in a bid to pick up a constant current . |
| 15 | ‘ I am going round London in 80 days , ’ I say , ‘ and intend to pick up a local bus at Heathrow ’ . |
| 16 | You solve this one by taking the Holiday Inn airport bus , buying a drink there to salve your conscience , and crossing the street to pick up a local bus . |
| 17 | We caught him as he was on his way to pick up a faulty music amplifier he was getting fixed . |
| 18 | We loaded the first two into the trailer , and were heading a few yards further on to pick up a third canister when we noticed that the enemy fire was now being directed at our part of the cornfield . |
| 19 | Bend down at the knees to pick up a bulky object , thus avoiding back strain . |
| 20 | Learn the right way to get out of bed , and to pick up a heavy object . |
| 21 | Jack Walker and his brother Fred also managed to pick up a British record of £330 million for the sale of their stockholding business to British Steel last year . |
| 22 | She kicked aside some of the mess , bent down to pick up a crisp packet , dropped it again and leaned against a wall , overwhelmed . |
| 23 | The one big difference is that you wo n't have to pick up a free ticket at the exhibition prior to the race . |
| 24 | The survey was not able to pick out a definite link between the type of heating and the degree of damp in a home . |
| 25 | Then it was possible for the expert to pick out a glazed tile , though only if it had sunk at the correct angle to the river bed . |
| 26 | On one hand , it is possible to pick out a dominant instance by its relationship with other aspects of a social structure . |