Example sentences of "[noun sg] picking up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aunt Margaret was bird-like herself , in her hither-and-thither movements and a certain gesture she had of nodding her head like a sparrow picking up crumbs . |
| 2 | It may well be that children younger than nine years have difficulty picking up information about intentions from pictures . |
| 3 | He is also facing an inquiry over the taxpayer picking up part of his £24,000 bill to evict a self-styled sex therapist from his home and was embarrassed by revelations about his Access card . |
| 4 | He says that they 've had a three man gang picking up peoples rubbish for the last seven years . |
| 5 | In agricultural districts school attendance registers showed poor attendance at harvest time when girls of ten or eleven were set to work picking up stones in the fields . |
| 6 | This guy has a business picking up fossils and selling them ? |
| 7 | She trailed around the room picking up beer bottles , looking oddly like a bee with broken wings . |
| 8 | Is this print picking up people who have n't had a price increase then ? |
| 9 | With Alex James as the pivot picking up clearances from defence and passing immediately to the front-runners , Arsenal could have the ball in their opponents ' net only seconds after being packed in their own goal area . |
| 10 | In contrast , a pleasant summer scene in 1984 along the Golden Mile , with a new livery railcoach picking up passengers at Central Pier . |
| 11 | We even spend some of our Pack Meeting time picking up paper people haff left about . |
| 12 | There would only be a very tiny risk of your son picking up toxocara — and the germ that has the effects you 're worried about — in the way you describe . |