Example sentences of "pick up the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Without another word , Bert Rafferty gently picked up the frightened child and made towards the cliff . |
| 32 | The man had picked up the ball , and peered down at Nick through dark-rimmed , bleary eyes . |
| 33 | Cowley had picked up the phone and was listening quietly . |
| 34 | Timber which has been properly kiln-seasoned ( which needs expensive kilns and close supervision ) is in no way worse than ‘ naturally ’ seasoned timber and indeed is rather less likely to have picked up the infections of rot during the seasoning process . |
| 35 | Mona , who had her daughter Soraya and a nanny with her , also picked up the tab for expensive dinners at trendy restaurants . |
| 36 | The three-year-old had picked up the patter from watching his dad Keith on the airwaves . |
| 37 | He finished this one quicker than the other two and when that was done he immediately picked up the knife and cut the next slice . |
| 38 | ‘ The African guide was nowhere to be seen so Slash picked up the guy 's rifle and began firing into the air , trying desperately to scare the elephants away , ’ said another friend of the star . |
| 39 | ‘ They put a delayed payment on it — and we have just picked up the cheque . ’ |
| 40 | Hannon had picked up the first two races as well after starting the day with no confidence at all . |
| 41 | ’ It had just picked up the muzak . |
| 42 | By now you should have picked up the signs directing you back to the Cat & Fiddle . |
| 43 | Poshekhonov said that he had found the way to laugh , he had picked up the spear of ridicule . |
| 44 | Colt went to the Khan Murjan in the old quarter only when someone else picked up the bill . |
| 45 | However , the developer of the Replix software , Dr Hikyu Lee , who had been president of Samsung Software , has picked up the rights to it and moved it to SoftLinks Inc , a new operation he 's starting with ex-Data General man John Doyle as vice president , sales and marketing . |
| 46 | However , the developer of the Replix software , Dr Hikyu Lee , who had been president of Samsung Software , has picked up the rights to it and moved it to SoftLinks Inc , a new operation he is starting with ex-Data General Corp staffer John Doyle as vice-president , sales and marketing . |
| 47 | Sun 's biggest US distributor Access Graphics has taken on Hummingbird 's HCL-exceed PC X servers which offers a Sun interface with X Windows applications and can run on top of PC-NFS : IBM Canada has also picked up the product to run off networked hosts like the RS/6000 . |
| 48 | There are other examples that underline the folly of this increasingly popular practice : Alec Stewart 's average in Tests in which he has picked up the gauntlets lags behind that of Jack Russell ; Richard Blakey 's batting has gone into reverse since he succeeded David Bairstow at Yorkshire . |
| 49 | This time she had n't picked up the thread automatically . |
| 50 | As Fulbright presented it , in what amounted to a proclamation of American innocence and British guilt , the US had been had' by her allies ; and while this may not appear to be entirely convincing , Fulbright had picked up the importance of what Acheson had described as the danger of Ho Chi Minh 's ‘ direct communist connection ’ — and might , indeed , have gone further . |
| 51 | She 's just picked up the children from a rendezvous with their father who had an afternoon 's access , and he 'd shouted at her and them in the street and threatened to take the children away . |
| 52 | But Faye and Roberta — well , they are n't middle class , to put it mildly , but surely they — yes , they would have picked up the know-how , the expertise , so if they did n't get things straight , it is because they did n't want to . |
| 53 | He enjoyed the salmon trout he ate at the small inn there but was mighty scathing about the visitors ' book ( as well as about the notion that the lake might actually be beautiful ) : ‘ You will see only two kinds of exclamations in it : one about the beauty of the Lac de Gaube , the other about how good the trout are … which means that only fools or gluttons have picked up the pen to sign their names and their thoughts . ’ |
| 54 | Having picked up the keys , she held her arms out wide , with the keys in one hand and the piece of paper in the other . |
| 55 | He had picked up the phone and was asking Celia to show their visitor up , James Morris glanced disdainfully at the new manager . |
| 56 | It has much improved printer support , though , and with 3D graphs at long last arriving on the Lotus menu , some users will think they 've picked up the wrong spreadsheet ! |
| 57 | The police had picked up the red sports car nine miles south of Ashford in Kent . |
| 58 | After the door closed , a pudgy hand picked up the videotape gingerly as if it were a dead bird and , pausing for a moment so that the viewer could read ‘ GOVERNMENT DRUGS SCANDAL ’ , dropped it into a wastepaper bin . |
| 59 | One occasion was when my daughter , who I had suspected was a better reader than she had ever let on , casually picked up The Wind in the Willows while I was unpacking after a house-move , and read out the first page with great expression and hardly any mistakes . |
| 60 | A lift of his hand and then he had picked up the reins and , with a quick dig of his heels , went straight into a canter . |