Example sentences of "from pick up " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Prime Minister out for a duck , ’ he muttered as he drew back from picking up a china duck at an Accrington factory . |
| 2 | However sympathetic a care assistant you are , a sense of humour keeps you from picking up someone else 's stress — and of course it lightens the atmosphere . |
| 3 | When we got to the pub my hands were so swollen and red from picking up the jug and throwing it all day I could barely pick up a pint to drink . ’ |
| 4 | He arrived home from picking up the Sunday morning bagels and the lad from Sunday school , to find his study full of arc lamps and white coats , and to have his sleeve wrenched unceremoniously up and a needle shoved in his vein . |
| 5 | Master butcher Howard Callaghan returned from picking up an award for a pork window display to discover the plate glass front of the shop blown away . |