Example sentences of "[vb -s] to pick up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had hoped that I might be able to find you some accommodation around here , but apparently it 's the duty of your local council in London to rehouse you and nobody else wants to pick up the bill . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Someone always has to pick up the bill . ’ |
| 3 | However , she just has to pick up the phone and a friendly voice at The Wool Shop is always there to help . |
| 4 | What I , I intend to do is to , I think it would be unfortunate if , as the result of a major development which is actually funding this new junction , the County Council then has to pick up the bill for other ameliorating effects a little bit further on the network . |
| 5 | In sampling and inspecting water quality he is his own agent to decide where and when he goes to pick up a sample . |
| 6 | Yes , well these , all wasps of course , er tend to er hit the fruit juice at this time of the year , and that fruit juice is very often fermenting , and you get a particularly er waspish reaction , er naturally , when er somebody goes to pick up a fallen apple or windfall pear , and they pick up a handful of wasp , inadvertently , and I think this year , particularly with a shortage of water , more wasps of all species have been driven to attack fruit , er and are feeding on the er fruit juice , much of which is fermenting . |
| 7 | She stoops to pick up the leaves , then drops them as ( by a cut ) they transform into a knife . |
| 8 | The two sentences are not ‘ equivalents ’ of each other , but they are quoted here to show that , in spite of the fact that the last mention of the particular participant being traced is by pronominal reference in the English version and by a proper noun in the Portuguese version , English still prefers to pick up the reference in the new paragraph by means of a pronoun while Portuguese prefers lexical repetition . |
| 9 | A taxi driver calls to pick up a fare , the two female passengers are guaranteed that the driver is a woman . |
| 10 | Up till now you always had to bid er , for issues arising from changes of growth in the population , and that particularly begins to pick up the issue about the aging population in the county , so if I can welcome that . |