Example sentences of "pick up information " in BNC.

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1 It would , however , have been interesting to see what relationships might have been revealed had WIRS picked up information on casual workers , since casual working ( albeit involving direct employment ) is also a considerably less regulated form of temporary working and gives an employer considerable disposition over his labour inputs .
2 In them it is concerned with picking up information about the timing and length of daylight .
3 It may well be that children younger than nine years have difficulty picking up information about intentions from pictures .
4 Again one of the essential elements picking up information is that if you enjoy you will then learn more .
5 But whose real job is picking up information . ’
6 Sam dragged his feet , hoping to pick up information .
7 Molly had gone round the party trying to pick up information , listening for hints dropped during casual conversations and there , talking to her own children and eating nougat , was the girl who might have told her almost everything .
8 One is somebody 's walking through the door to pick up information
9 We 've got extra foot patrols in uniform and plain clothes to prevent an attack and to pick up information .
10 , late at night , , they 've got the boat , and the tape , they 're both out on tape and video , and basically you have to go back , as soon as the boat comes through docks the next person picks it up and goes , so you 've got very little time to pick up information , and all the time you ca n't go in , and the clock 's going , and the clock 's going and you switch , and they said it was , next to you , they said it such a
11 Its dendrites pick up information from other neurons , and the axon and its terminals pass this on to other cells .
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