Example sentences of "[to-vb] up a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Not the sort of place you 'd go to pick up a new ribbon ? ’ |
| 32 | After a year or two I was nipping out at lunchtime to pick up a new skirt for the office party , calling at the dry cleaners , handing in the photos to be developed and meeting friends for lunch with the best of them . |
| 33 | Bruce Springsteen managed to pick up a new house for £2 million less than the asking price . |
| 34 | Because of this , it can operate for 15 hours continuously at full power , stopping only to pick up a new coal pack . |
| 35 | His experiments on the nature of lightning were truly pioneering , starting at Marly in France where a dragoon was persuaded to pick up a long brass wire inside a glass bottle which acted as an insulator . |
| 36 | The rod , in order to pick up a long length of sunken line , should be a minimum of 11ft long , and a maximum of 12ft or it becomes unwieldy . |
| 37 | She pretended to pick up a dropped paper napkin . |
| 38 | In IBM 's method , the electrode tip moves up and down in a bid to pick up a constant current . |
| 39 | She leaned closer and reached out , to pick up a few strands of dark hair . |
| 40 | I sympathized and threw in a few choice obscenities and ‘ hanging 's too good for ‘ ems ’ but made a note to pick up a few watches next time I was down the Brick Lane midnight market . |
| 41 | SMALL investors could use any spare cash to pick up a few holdings in carefully chosen smaller companies . |
| 42 | ‘ I do n't think that professionalism as such should have a place within the playing side of the Association , ’ states the Dungiven clubman , ‘ We play for pure enjoyment and recreation and if along the way we manage to pick up a few honours , then that 's great . |
| 43 | ‘ I am going round London in 80 days , ’ I say , ‘ and intend to pick up a local bus at Heathrow ’ . |
| 44 | You solve this one by taking the Holiday Inn airport bus , buying a drink there to salve your conscience , and crossing the street to pick up a local bus . |
| 45 | We caught him as he was on his way to pick up a faulty music amplifier he was getting fixed . |
| 46 | We loaded the first two into the trailer , and were heading a few yards further on to pick up a third canister when we noticed that the enemy fire was now being directed at our part of the cornfield . |
| 47 | Bend down at the knees to pick up a bulky object , thus avoiding back strain . |
| 48 | Learn the right way to get out of bed , and to pick up a heavy object . |
| 49 | Jack Walker and his brother Fred also managed to pick up a British record of £330 million for the sale of their stockholding business to British Steel last year . |
| 50 | She kicked aside some of the mess , bent down to pick up a crisp packet , dropped it again and leaned against a wall , overwhelmed . |
| 51 | The one big difference is that you wo n't have to pick up a free ticket at the exhibition prior to the race . |
| 52 | The Soviet neutralisation plan for the Persian Gulf may have been intended to open up a strategic dialogue on a broad front to enable Soviet diplomats to introduce Western military preponderance in the Gulf region tacitly or explicitly into the negotiation process for the limitation of Soviet military influence in other regions . |
| 53 | For the third time this season Cheadle were put on the rack but they mustered their strength in the final quarter to open up a 14–10 lead . |
| 54 | He made the putt to open up a five-shot lead . |
| 55 | To write the words ‘ the family in industrial society ’ is to make a lot of assumptions and to open up a complex range of questions . |
| 56 | After the failure of Hawkins 's attempt to open up a regular slave trade with South America , the English had paid only infrequent visits to the west coast of Africa , though a company to trade with ‘ Ginny and Binny ’ ( Guinea and Benin ) had been launched in 1618 . |
| 57 | For Rangers the chance to open up a four point gap on Celtic before the end of October . |
| 58 | Two minutes into the second half Elwood 's drop goal reinforced Ireland 's victory push and within minutes the same player was on target with a penalty to open up a six point gap . |
| 59 | Just as the critics were beginning to complain about overdoses of city life along came Cagney to inject new energy into the genre and in effect to open up a new era for the movies . |
| 60 | The establishment of Georgia completed the process of coastal settlement , and it was close enough to the Spanish colony of Florida to open up a new area of conflict . |