Example sentences of "[was/were] picking up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between them they were picking up the power line , the hoses for oxygen and wastes . |
| 2 | Erm when we were picking up the trunk off erm Uncle Alan who 's on on the beginning of the fishing |
| 3 | She was picking up the knack . |
| 4 | Susan , an unwonted flush on her pale cheeks , was picking up the wet things out of the grate . |
| 5 | She was having to repeat herself , and even then Lucy was picking up the wrong costume or completely mistaking what had been said . |
| 6 | It was a stand-off , he was picking up the Yankee jargon . |
| 7 | It would be nice to think their affair had meant something to him , and after Seville he was picking up the pieces of his life and had found happiness with another woman . |