Example sentences of "pick up the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hearing-aids pick up the clatter of dishes and swoosh of running water , which compete with speech reception . |
| 2 | If we pick up the leg of a horse that is not used to it , it may tolerate it for a second or two , and then snatch it back from us . |
| 3 | And they pick up the tunes of the language . |
| 4 | You can feel the brake and then you pick up the feel of the tyre and it starts moving a little bit . |
| 5 | Once the group is there , simply pick up the icon of each of the programs you want to come up automatically , and drop it in the Startup group . |
| 6 | ‘ I need to go to Plenty , ’ he said , ‘ pick up the rest of the band and all our gear . ’ |
| 7 | You pick up the cake of soap and leave as quietly as you entered . ’ |
| 8 | Drawing a field means that the hounds are guided by the huntsmen and whippers-in across the field until the hounds pick up the scent of a hare . |
| 9 | Do these like pick up the sound of the wheels coming through ? |
| 10 | Would it be safe to return , pick up the pieces of her life again ? |
| 11 | Think of India or the hippy trail to Kathmandu and pick up the hint of the free-wheeling late Sixties flower-power look . |
| 12 | or pick up the aesthetics of road-haulage . |
| 13 | They sometimes fancy they pick up the voices of the past , answering their prayers , and after presenting their gifts of flowers and fruit , they come away filled with hope that the great loas have agreed to grant whatever they were being implored to do . |