Example sentences of "[be] pick up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ninety per cent of people in residential care in Newcastle are on income support and the average time to death or discharge in residential care is three years , so his department will be picking up the whole burden by the third year . |
| 2 | It rang for a long time , and he thought he was going to be out of luck , but eventually the receiver was picked up the other end . |
| 3 | She was having to repeat herself , and even then Lucy was picking up the wrong costume or completely mistaking what had been said . |
| 4 | Susan , an unwonted flush on her pale cheeks , was picking up the wet things out of the grate . |
| 5 | His intention was to pick up the 18,000 troops assembled in the area behind Quiberon known as the Morbihan and transport them to Scotland , as the first stage of the great invasion plan . |