Example sentences of "pick [adv prt] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said well it 's up to the teachers , I said , you ca n't expect me , I mean if there was if he was picked on I would go down there but I mean if he 's being naughty then it 's up to the teachers to sort him out |
| 2 | Apart from the few wives and daughters of master printers who had picked up something of the trade in the family firm , the first women compositors in Britain to receive anything like a " systematic training " were apparently taken on by the firm of McCorquodale of Newton-le-Willows in about 1848.12 It was a little-known experiment that did not last . |
| 3 | He 'll have picked up something . |
| 4 | He fluttered his fingers as if he 'd picked up something hot . |
| 5 | I have n't seen it now , any any at all for about a month and within two episodes I 've picked up everything . |
| 6 | That 's three bloody cards on the trot I 've picked up which I 'm . |
| 7 | However , there is a good chance that this inexperienced Welsh side will have picked up plenty of tips from the loss . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been told you 're unhurt , but I see you 've picked up plenty of gore . |
| 9 | The Titfords were more than lucky , in a sense , to have picked up their legacies from Benjamin 's will in that year , since the nation as a whole was suffering from a period of deep depression following a boom which had peaked six or seven years before . |
| 10 | So I wondered what chance I had of outstaying Lebanese men who had picked up their first Kalashnikov aged six , or the Vietnamese man who had seen his mother raped before going on to kill his first Cambodian at the age when I was doing my Common Entrance . |
| 11 | Milly , their maid , always picked up their toys and made their beds and put their clothes away . |
| 12 | They 've picked up their own vibes . |
| 13 | I imagined they 'd picked up their prisoners in sweeps of the town . |
| 14 | The beasts had obviously picked up their scent and were now following their trail . |
| 15 | Perhaps the audience had picked up their stools and gone home . |
| 16 | Laura had muttered as Ross had picked up their suitcases . |
| 17 | does well with the challenge , Notts have picked up their game , for on the left hand side . |
| 18 | does well with the challenge , Notts have picked up their game , wide for on the left hand side , in now for , turns , shoots , beats a defender , shoots scores . |
| 19 | ‘ And it appeared to me that Casey had n't even picked up what he had said . |
| 20 | By the time she 's thirty — and Eleanor was thirty in spite of appearances — a woman has usually picked up her share of married men . |
| 21 | On this particular occasion , having picked up her baby daughter , the mother was in such a haste to reach the safety of the shelter that she tripped on the stone steps leading down into its dark interior . |
| 22 | The young woman had picked up her handbag , but had n't moved apart from that . |
| 23 | Lucille took a last look in the mirror , decided there was nothing that could be done to make herself any more elegant or beautiful , and so picked up her small bag that contained the precious pasteboard ticket . |
| 24 | Bathsheba immediately picked up her pen and wrote Boldwood 's address on the envelope . |
| 25 | But , too shaken by what was happening to argue , she had picked up her Aran cardigan . |
| 26 | Dana scowled and Claudia knew she had picked up her thoughts . |
| 27 | It was as if the Baron had picked up her thought . |
| 28 | Laura has picked up her bargains and left the rest of us reeling , not knowing what 's hit us ! ’ |
| 29 | He had picked up one that was lying in a gutter with a burnt-out fuse . |
| 30 | Arrow Electronics , already US-wide distributors of Sun workstations and servers , has picked up its SparcEngine 2 and SparcEngine IPX boards , marking their entrance into the reseller channel . |