Example sentences of "[noun] pick up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have any views pick up the phone and call me now . |
| 2 | I am careful not to leave even the smallest scrap of yarn lying around as mother birds pick up the pieces and use them for lining their nests . |
| 3 | The sensors pick up the change which is then fed back directly to alter the temperature or some other variable . |
| 4 | An aid worker in Jordanian refugee camps ca n't get a TV crew from the West interested in tens of thousands of people from the ‘ Third World ’ who are about to die from starvation — all the crews are off watching Richard Branson pick up a couple of hundred westerners in one of his Virgin Jumbo Jets . |
| 5 | The bank had arranged for a four-wheeler to pick up the messenger , round the back of the building . |
| 6 | He has just broken one of his records deliberately and is on his knees picking up the pieces as he talks to himself . |
| 7 | Talk about playing golf while Rome burns ; just leave the canny Scots to pick up the bargains . |
| 8 | Waiting for Scott to pick up the telephone , Annabel could visualize the scene at the TV station . |
| 9 | Ruth moaned as she staggered out of her bedroom to pick up the phone . |
| 10 | Not very early , you can sleep in I 've got ta go to Waitrose to pick up the stuff . |
| 11 | Although it costs more than 49p to pick up a copy today , ‘ The Faust Tapes ’ represents money well spent . |
| 12 | Though still it has all the marks of makeshift industrialisation and decline , with municipalism picking up the pieces , building endless estates of council houses . |
| 13 | The monitor picks up the amount of ultraviolet or UV rays coming from the sun . |
| 14 | The minibus picks up the Inspirals party outside the hotel in Japantown , San Francisco at 10.30 the next morning , a Sunday . |
| 15 | Gloucester had missed four penalties … but made up for things with an opening try … as full-back Martin Roberts picked up a tap penalty and bulldozed his way through to score … |
| 16 | And Mister Johnny picked up a pitchfork … |
| 17 | Jean picked up the bag and took it home . |
| 18 | Neil picked up the book . |
| 19 | David picked up the arm and through the rack looking for new ones to put on while Sandra busied herself putting on the sleeves of the ones they had played . |
| 20 | NICK FALDO picked up the Ritz Club Golfer of the Year award and the Vardon Trophy , given to the European Tour 's leading money-winner , at the Tour 's annual dinner in London last night . |
| 21 | Corbett picked up the torch and threw it down . |
| 22 | Georgina picked up a letter from her desk , screwed it up and threw it at the waste-paper basket . |
| 23 | Edward picked up the menu . |
| 24 | Edward picked up the bill and examined it . |
| 25 | Edward picked up the saw . |
| 26 | Cadfael picked up the psaltery with due respect , and laid it safely aside on the little prayer-desk . |
| 27 | Rodomonte picked up a football sized rock that lay close to the entrance , and passed through . |
| 28 | And Bobby picked up the phone when the phone rang and it was her and she sai erm Bob said yes ? |
| 29 | A barrage of punches which started with a swinging left hook left Clarkson on one knee and once the action restarted and Hardy picked up the assault , it was clear the fight would come to a quick conclusion . |
| 30 | Travis picked up the map he must have been consulting while she slept . |