Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Short hypotheses looked more promising than long ones simply because more of their score was an estimate ; they had not picked up actual shortfall . |
| 32 | As expected ( UX No 422 ) , the Open Software Foundation has picked up new widget technology from Lotus Development Corp , IBM Corp and Digital Equipment Corp to enhance its Motif graphical user interface . |
| 33 | His own sources among the Altun had picked up vague hints of another conception upon which Sidacai had drawn or to which he had been led . |
| 34 | Finally , I have just picked up another item on railway laws : — |
| 35 | PICKED UP another £30,000 for sabbaticals — study leave — that he did not take . |
| 36 | Or perhaps it was merely an accident that Marcus had picked up those utterances of his ancestors . |
| 37 | The truth is that some members of the Liverpool board had misgivings about the way Swansea were run and wondered if Toshack might have picked up bad habits . |
| 38 | After a period of use the heads may well have picked up sufficient debris from the disk surface to prevent a reliable reading of the magnetic information on the disk . |
| 39 | ‘ The visit , in view of the time allocated , was necessarily superficial and only likely to have picked up gross discrepancies , ’ it said . |
| 40 | McQuaid had either struck true by pure chance or had picked up reliable gossip at the Mohill Fair . |
| 41 | Which is comparable complexity and er they have picked up considerable experience from that but , you know , I do n't wish here in this committee to in any way challenge the er capabilities or the competence of erm , of Deutsch Aerospace to undertake |
| 42 | Despite Graham 's protestations , Arsenal have picked up 23 bookings already this season and a growing injury list has further blighted the Gunners ' bid for a third championship triumph in five seasons . |
| 43 | I mean I would n't want to give away how it all works , but you have actually won five times and so how much have you actually picked up this season ? |
| 44 | An O S one to fifty thousand and that 's what I thought I 'd picked up this morning to take with me but when I looked it was Chester and Wrexham so it did n't do me much good . |
| 45 | It was the usual sequence : we 'd picked up this batch from the mass grave , in the woods , and stood waiting by the van on the approach road while the carbon monoxide went about its work . |
| 46 | AUSTRALIAN he-man Mel Gibson , best known for ‘ Mad Max ’ and ‘ Lethal Weapon ’ , has picked up kinder notices for his ‘ Hamlet ’ than perhaps he or anyone else expected . |
| 47 | ‘ We have failed to progress in Europe in recent years , but we have picked up valuable lessons from those experiences and I feel we are now ready for the challenge . ’ |
| 48 | I did n't know what crows ate , so picked up some cabbage leaves and a lump of congealed moussaka from a dish in the Corporal 's kitchen . |
| 49 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 50 | Athelstan carefully picked up some splinters of wood . |
| 51 | Only , I think , in so far as I 've seen so many pictures over the years that I must have picked up some knowledge and a sort of an overview of what there is in English art , so that I can make better comparisons . |
| 52 | What I want to say is I picked up some information in Gorstone about MacQuillan funding a terrorist group in Northern Ireland . |
| 53 | I 've just picked up some words and phrases . ’ |
| 54 | In group A the Paper Tigers with their amazing bouncing ball have lifted their rounders difference to great heights while Dr Blobby and the Blobettes have at last picked up some points from a game , which means that all teams this year have managed to win at least one point . |
| 55 | Finch had picked up some Arabic and heard the interpreter translating the image into a metaphysical one about a camel ( whichever is a camel ) lying down with a camel ( whichever is a camel ) . |
| 56 | It soon became reasonably certain that I had n't picked up any kind of tails or bugs , and so I could begin to relax . |
| 57 | ‘ The Serious Crime Squad come down , and sometimes I 'm told when they 're on my patch , most times I 'm not , they keep the Manor House under observation , on and off , but they 've not picked up any scent of him . |
| 58 | Fortunately , after a visit to hospital he was found not to have picked up any poison . |
| 59 | From his wording , it would appear he has picked up these rumours secondhand from somewhere . |
| 60 | From the same shop he could have picked up enough straps and buckles and ties to restrain King Kong . |