Example sentences of "[noun sg] picks [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the boat picks up speed , so you can settle gently into the boat to gain control . |
| 2 | The car picks up speed very quickly in the lower gears thanks to a 16-valve turbo engine and soon we were finding out how to negotiate winding country lanes at 60 . |
| 3 | Right : Mazda 's modern-styled Approach Light picks up movement in a wide detection zone , and has an economical five minute switch off delay |
| 4 | NOW SUN PICKS UP XYLOGICS ' ANNEX TERMINAL SERVERS |
| 5 | A boy picks up souvenirs from a wrecked car in Florida |
| 6 | This is when the bream are feeding very confidently , usually on maggots which they are picking up directly from the bottom , much as a chicken picks up corn one grain after another without having to move too far to do it . |
| 7 | In English , the term tiger picks out instances of the category ‘ tiger ’ today and will still do so tomorrow . |
| 8 | The tube can be lowered into the tank and once a syphon has been made , the tube picks up gravel and agitates it and once you apply your thumb to the end of the hose , the gravel falls back to the bottom , leaving you with clean substrate and a bucketful of dirty water . |
| 9 | In certain cases , there may be deposition of solid matter from ground water on standing , such as occurs in supplies containing iron or manganese , where , on exposure to the atmosphere , the water picks up oxygen or loses carbon dioxide , which results in precipitation of insoluble hydroxides . |
| 10 | In Alton Locke Kingsley takes the reader into a house like the ones depicted by Godwin with the caption given ( Fig. 35 ) , where the rushlight picks up reflections through the broad chinks in the floorboards of the sewer below . |
| 11 | Ephron picks up Abraham 's ‘ give ’ and uses it three times in his opening offer . |
| 12 | Even though the government picks up 80% of the cost of the huge security operation needed to guard the airline against terrorism , that still leaves El Al with a large bill . |
| 13 | There 's a sense in which the two are related , because sometimes national radio picks up stuff which is done on local radio , and certainly in the B B C network , local , B B C local radio makes a point of actually sending a certain amount of material on a regular basis to national radio , there is this link , and both in terms of personnel and in terms of material . |
| 14 | When path picks up line of iron fence continue to follow this , keeping it on left-hand side , to reach trig point on summit . |
| 15 | Dad picks up £76,324 for running the country . |
| 16 | Since the system picks up satellite telly , goggle box addicts need n't have an ugly giant saucer stuck on their home . |
| 17 | The PLAYER picks up coin . |
| 18 | Meanwhile the detector picks up hum from mains lighting and clicks are likely to occur whenever a flashing light is detected from whatever source . |
| 19 | The Queen gets £7.9 million from the list , the Queen Mother picks up £643,000 and Philip gets £359,000 . |