Example sentences of "pick up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benny had picked up Eve 's handbag , a small cheap plastic one which Mother Francis had bought for her in Peggy Pine 's shop as a going-to-Dublin present a few weeks ago . |
| 2 | Minton occasionally hung around Victoria railway station , waiting for the boat train to come in , and in this way had picked up Sparkes . |
| 3 | OpenVision Inc , the unusual nine-month-old Pleasanton , California start-up with $25m in funding and a $12m revenue stream , which launched its unusual systems management concept at the end of last month ( CI No 2,158 ) , has picked up friends in high places . |
| 4 | He 'd picked up dysentery at a game fair in Hampshire ! ’ |
| 5 | Not I 'm not blaming Marianne , but she 's sort of picked up things from the media and the media have said oh rejoice attitude , but that particular rejoice was because there were no casualties |
| 6 | In the process it 's picked up HaL Computer Systems Inc , the most famous of the no-product-yet companies , to stand up and say it was doing its own Version 9 implementation , claiming to be ‘ well under way . ’ |
| 7 | Sybase Inc has picked up Francois Stieger to run its Gain Technology operation in Europe . |
| 8 | All we can say is that girls do as well as boys at the mathematical skills which primary teachers value , such as computation , but that the APU surveys , and the analysis of other researchers such as Hilary Shuard ( 1986 ) , have picked up differences in the performance of girls and boys which mathematics educators regard as significant . |
| 9 | We would have picked up readings on arrival . |
| 10 | One of the crooks was picked up half-a-mile away and he led them to the tot who was sitting unhurt on a pedestrian walkway . |
| 11 | The UK 's Ampersand Systems Ltd , Bristol , is re-launching itself as the Open Systems Centre , and as has picked up IBM 's RS/6000 to market . |
| 12 | Horowitz had picked up Eva Hendrix from the villa on the way to Frankfurt Airport . |
| 13 | When you have picked up stitches , for example to knit on a neckband , or when picking up to make a sideways knitted front band , if the edge is a bit rough it is a very good idea to bring the needles holding the picked up edges or stitches out to E position before knitting across with the side levers at 0 . |
| 14 | Terry Butcher and Mark Wright have picked up injuries and are doubtful starters . |
| 15 | Twice I 've picked up goods on a shelf marked reduced and then found , because of the bar codes , I was charged full price at the pay-out desk . |
| 16 | They could always have had the church watched and perhaps picked up Zoser when he came out . |
| 17 | She is now thought to have picked up £250,000 in court actions around the world . |
| 18 | Ace did n't speak , but instead picked up Richmann 's fallen Winchester , and checked it . |
| 19 | Dr Steve Harris , who studies foxes in Bristol , has often picked up scabies , or mange . |
| 20 | Cruise had already picked up £8 million and Moore was paid Pounds 1.5 million for A Few Good Men . |
| 21 | I think you had a little bit of a soft spot for Poole did n't you , and you 'd have quite liked to have gone there and a little bit perhaps disappointed when you heard that they 'd picked up Marvin Cox ? |
| 22 | Well not disappointed that they 'd picked up Marvin Cox because obviously they 're going to need a very strong side if they 're going to win anything so erm you know , with guys like Marvin around , then it 's got to be a good idea , you know , they 've obviously made a big jump there to grab someone they think 's going to make a difference . |
| 23 | Visix Software Inc has picked up UniPress Software Inc as a distributor , which will sell Looking Glass Professional as its desktop manager of choice . |
| 24 | The networking company has signed an agreement with Hudson , Massachusetts-based Gradient Technologies Inc , which has already picked up support from the likes of IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Sun Microsystems Inc and Unix System Laboratories Inc . |
| 25 | No we 'd just picked up Christine from her friend 's house and I had sort of half a dozen people |
| 26 | Auspex Systems Inc has picked up distributors in Europe and the Pacific Rim including Storage Data Systems International in France , RacTech GmbH in Germany and Edata in Scandinavia . |
| 27 | Qualix Inc has picked up Adobe Systems Inc 's TransScript software for distribution : the software is designed to enable Unix programs to print to PostScript output devices . |
| 28 | Qualix Inc has picked up Adobe 's TransScript software for distribution : the software allows Unix programs to print to Postscript devices . |
| 29 | Also insulate the walls , and eliminate as many draughts as possible , Try to avoid water drips from the roof , as they could have picked up asbestos particles . |
| 30 | Since that advert , I mean we 've picked up customers that would normally go to Bristol . |