Example sentences of "picks [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , with luck , it finds and picks up a tiny insect corpse . |
| 2 | The socialist , the feminist , or the worker who picks up a cheap print of the Memorial Sheet to Karl Liebknecht ( 1919 ) , is not prioritising the formal elements which attracted Max Lehrs as writing , ‘ It would be very regrettable if ( Kollowitz ‘ etchings ) found approval from the public merely because of their social content … = Art should not and can not serve the changing goals of parties . ’ |
| 3 | Such a rod casts long and accurately ; picks up a long line without maniacal exertion , and remains soft enough in the tip to retain the necessary shock-absorber effect . |
| 4 | As well as those on the board , Geldart picks up a thick wad of letters from boys who will be invited to the club 's Centre of Excellence , which takes place over two sessions every Thursday night . |
| 5 | ‘ No , it 's just that my sister 's going out , ’ she says , as she picks up the various plastic carrier bags already waiting in the hall . |
| 6 | erm we decided from the start that erm the mums who have their kids in the creche should make some contribution towards the costs ; we 're providing them with a benefit erm but the company picks up the major part of the bill erm but in terms of the output from the additional sewing machinists that we 've got , it 's very , very cost-effective , yes . |
| 7 | From the buffet we could see the restaurant where a ten-piece dance band was playing ‘ Mambo italiano ’ and about thirty couples danced various improvisations on the Western dances according to whether they came from Leningrad , peking , or East Berlin , where the TV picks up the Western stations . |
| 8 | The embroidery-edged bed linen picks up the delicate decoration as does the appliqué bedcover , while the plain brown walls add warmth and lend a strong contrast . |
| 9 | The choice theory picks up the libertarian strand , which insists that all state power must be legitimated by consent , whereas the ‘ harm to interests ’ theory taps the slender source of Millian liberalism to defend a broadening of the scope of contractual obligations . |
| 10 | If it is at this point that Freud 's theory exceeds itself and is forced beyond the realm of the verifiable into that of speculation , this is also the point at which Such picks up the Freudian way of thinking . |
| 11 | It looks dewy fresh , but it does have overtones of a quieter age , and it 's the perfect foil for the earthy tones of the fabric which picks up the exotic theme we used downstairs . |
| 12 | The microphone picks up the surrounding sounds and feeds them to the amplifier . |
| 13 | On the platform he picks up the local rumours . |
| 14 | Suddenly the camera picks out a rounded tongue of hot lava being extruded from the flow front ; there is a brief flash of red , almost immediately extinguished , and a new pillow has been created . |
| 15 | Here the modifier this picks out a particular Thursday in relation to the speaker 's location in the week : this Thursday means the Thursday of the week in which the speaker is speaking . |
| 16 | Each picks out a different type of factor and claims that it is the key to a causal understanding of the Industrial Revolution ; and in doing so , each relies on an undefended account of the assumptions that need to be embodied in satisfactory explanations . |
| 17 | A subjective camera , filming through goggles , picks out the inane faces and soundless mouths of his elders as he descends to the bottom of the pool where he stands silently and alone , away from the pestering people above . |
| 18 | The ‘ country of the Iguanodon restored ’ is very different from Victorian Sussex ; the strange light which picks out the struggling animals also reveals how many tons of animal life the artist believed that the primeval world could support on quite a small area-as later dinosaur pictures always tend to do . |