Example sentences of "pick up [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She is now thought to have picked up £250,000 in court actions around the world . |
| 3 | Cruise had already picked up £8 million and Moore was paid Pounds 1.5 million for A Few Good Men . |
| 4 | Netwise Inc has picked up $8.5m in third-round venture capital from eight firms including Hancock Venture Partners and the Japan Associated Finance Co , both of whom are new to the company : the money will be used for further development . |
| 5 | Dickens Data Systems Inc has picked up Data General Corp 's Clariion storage system to distribute for the IBM RS/6000 servers it resells to US VARs . |
| 6 | He witnessed Vaughan 's resentment of Johnny 's Circus , also the way in which Minton , like a piece of Sellotape , automatically picked up people when he went into a pub . |
| 7 | Five-year-old graphical user interface house XVT Software Inc in Boulder , Colorado has picked up $1m in first-round financing from JMI Equity Fund Ltd in Sugar Land , Texas : the company says the money will be used to underwrite further development of portable interactive design tools and portable object-oriented tools . |
| 8 | Former GB tourist Des Foy and fellow centre John Henderson are also on their way to Fartown , with Oldham picking up £10,000 for the pair . |
| 9 | Is this print picking up people who have n't had a price increase then ? |
| 10 | It 's picking up people who do n't have end date . |
| 11 | The company now charges £20 for collection of a cow carcass and has refused to pick up sheep . |
| 12 | SMITH & NEPHEW is to pick up £46.5m from selling the Nivea skin care brand back to Beiersdorf 50 years after it was confiscated from the German company during the Second World War . |
| 13 | I remember Stromness dry for I was I used to drive a car then I used to pick up folk and take them to the Pomona and take them back again . |
| 14 | Welsh Secretary John Redwood promised to pick up 85pc of the bill after Gwynedd County Council has spent £400,000 and Aberconwy Council £21,000 of their own money . |
| 15 | More realistically , it is easy for each of us to pick up $3,000 of the banker 's money by both playing COOPERATE on all ten rounds of the game . |
| 16 | The group 's report and accounts also show that the six executive directors are in line to pick up £1.46 million in share option gains by July . |
| 17 | It was n't difficult to pick up people for casual sex but it was difficult to transfer that casual sex contact into any sort of relationship . |
| 18 | This might be explained by WIRS s failure to pick up data on casual workers , the form of temporary worker employed in low skill service occupations . |
| 19 | Even though the government picks up 80% of the cost of the huge security operation needed to guard the airline against terrorism , that still leaves El Al with a large bill . |
| 20 | Dad picks up £76,324 for running the country . |
| 21 | The Queen gets £7.9 million from the list , the Queen Mother picks up £643,000 and Philip gets £359,000 . |
| 22 | T V , on the whole , generates material for itself , and makes little forays out into your territory and picks up people . |
| 23 | He will still pick up £9 million for the £43 million film . |
| 24 | DIE HARD tough-guy Bruce Willis will pick up £5 million to play a fairytale prince . |
| 25 | But Cosby will still pick up £7 million from the first series . |
| 26 | And Lucy had promised ; therefore she now said , ‘ I 'm sorry — I promised my mother I 'd never pick up people I do n't know . ’ |
| 27 | He will pick up £375,000 in compensation and his shareholding is worth £136,000 . |
| 28 | Lloyd 's List had earlier reported the Kharg/northwest Europe voyage as particularly profitable : a VLCC at current rates could pick up $3.7 million at W40 which would yield a 25 per cent profit , compared with W27 a month earlier which would have earned just $1.5 million . |
| 29 | Henry Wendt , 58 , chairman , picked up £1.8m , an increase of 93 p.c. while Bob Bauman , 60 , chief executive , collected £1.7m , representing a more modest 3½ p.c. increase in his total package . |
| 30 | Len Miller ( West End ) drawn near the Burnt Oak , picked up roach at intervals presenting a single maggot under a six metre pole to win with 4–14–0 . |