Example sentences of "[verb] pick up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reigning European Barefoot Champion has picked up the British Waterski Federation 's highest award for her outstanding achievments . |
| 2 | She looked round the hall , then bent to pick up the broken remains of a photo frame . |
| 3 | D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles is hotly tipped to pick up the creative account for St Ivel 's Shape and Gold brands , currently handled by J Walter Thompson . |
| 4 | While he was speaking , Emily tried to pick up the incriminating letter and slip it into her bag , but Marcus stopped her . |
| 5 | Dot in the conservatory watched as Loopy Lil slowly tried to pick up the unsteady tray of china . |
| 6 | Thus we may write , where t is a random , serially independent variable designed to pick up the random movements in the risk premium . |
| 7 | The water is viewed by light sensitive detectors designed to pick up the so-called Cherenkov light emitted when electrically-charged particles travel faster than light does through the water . |
| 8 | ‘ We have to look to the future and I am sure that the unitary authorities will not want to pick up the massive debt charges on the castle , ’ he said . |
| 9 | She 'd picked up the literary allusion immediately , and enjoyed those few seconds during which the man 's intensely blue eyes had held her own . |
| 10 | This year it was ever-reliable Tony Humphries who shifted the club world on its axis and demolished the Sound Factory Bar by creating an hour-long mega-mix out of a tune he 'd picked up the previous week during one of his periodical spinning visits to Switzerland . |
| 11 | Although the publishers rejected the idea of a joint imprint , they do have to market the books jointly — but in such a way that the public and foreign publishers looking to pick up the foreign rights are not confused . |
| 12 | After she had gone he switched off the gramophone , drained his drink in a single gulp , then stooped to pick up the offending telegraph message . |
| 13 | In the grey morning light , Clare , still in her nightgown , stooped to pick up the little bottle of sleeping pills from the floor . |
| 14 | He stooped to pick up the wrong key , which had been jerked out of the lock and out of her hand when she started away . |
| 15 | Mr are you going to pick up the first point and then Mr . |
| 16 | In a land where trendy cafés display neon signs reading SMACK BAR and SNATCH BAR , no one 's going to pick up the linguistic and social markers that pin the native Brit down like so many Lilliputian bonds . |
| 17 | Another problem which electric fish have circumvented is that very sensitive receptors are needed to pick up the weak signals of other fish , and such receptors would be swamped by the fish 's own field . |
| 18 | Juliette bent down and began picking up the smashed pieces of china . |
| 19 | Pepita began to pick up the fallen bananas and place them back in their crate . |
| 20 | Immediately , her expression and pace of approach changed and instead of the lambasting , or worse , she had seemed about to deliver , she gave the child a tolerant smile and began to pick up the scattered cans . |
| 21 | As he went up behind her , step by step , eyes fixed on the sensuous movements of her dark young limbs , he half noticed the seemingly inordinate number of doors which opened on to the landings and he could not avoid picking up the predominating odour of curry . |
| 22 | When his pager bleeps , the members of staff being contacted picks up the nearest telephone and dials a prearranged number , such as the reception desk . |
| 23 | Er we pay pick up the second the second stage which is the balance of the first year 's payment at er about six to eight week 's later through this banker 's order . |
| 24 | If the pension funds and insurance companies had waited they could have picked up the same properties at a far lower price . |
| 25 | Emil , who must have picked up the same signals , spoke with a true leader 's decisiveness . |
| 26 | I much regret that such a new Member of Parliament should have picked up the churlish habits of other Labour Members . |
| 27 | ‘ Of course , ’ his wife answered , starting to pick up the dirty dishes . |
| 28 | If they do happen to pick up the wrong isomer erm , these isomers by the way , you 'll find things put in front of them like you often find a little d or a little l in front of the name it means dextarosatory rotated to the right and leverosatory |
| 29 | Barbara looked up as she dragged Jimmy to one side , and saw Duvall stoop to pick up the broken neck of the whisky bottle that she had dropped . |
| 30 | It has much improved printer support , though , and with 3D graphs at long last arriving on the Lotus menu , some users will think they 've picked up the wrong spreadsheet ! |