Example sentences of "[noun sg] picks up [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When path picks up line of iron fence continue to follow this , keeping it on left-hand side , to reach trig point on summit . |
| 9 | Since the system picks up satellite telly , goggle box addicts need n't have an ugly giant saucer stuck on their home . |
| 10 | The PLAYER picks up coin . |
| 11 | Meanwhile the detector picks up hum from mains lighting and clicks are likely to occur whenever a flashing light is detected from whatever source . |