Example sentences of "you pick up " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Can I lend you some at least until you pick up your wages tomorrow ? ’ |
| 2 | Time is always well spent when practising steep turns : not the classroom type where you pick up more speed and then go into the turn , but the sort you might use for thermalling . |
| 3 | The most common reason for a biomusical is opportunism : take a star like Judy Garland or John Lennon , and you pick up a hit title and a hit score ready-made . |
| 4 | If you pick up a handful of ordinary package brochures , America will be there : Crystal , Inghams , Intasun , Neilson and Thomson all have new or expanded American programmes . |
| 5 | Along life 's way you pick up little techniques that help you control your behaviour , get your own way , become strong-willed . |
| 6 | You weave uncertainly along the road at first , but soon you pick up speed and rush smoothly forward , and your heart leaps with joy at the mastery of the thing . |
| 7 | And then you pick up something a bit more up-to-the-minute , such as Geoffrey Cannon and Hetty Einzig 's Dieting Makes You Fat , and you read this : |
| 8 | As you pick up the flesh , squeeze it and apply as much pressure as you can tolerate , but not so much that you bruise the area . |
| 9 | Here you pick up 2 to 3 centimetres of flesh on the thigh and roll it between your fingers and thumb ( Fig 23 ) . |
| 10 | When you pick up the phone , say ‘ Good morning afternoon ’ and announce the name of the company or department . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , ’ says the ex-chief executive philosophically , ‘ when you 've managed a business in crisis mode as long as I have , you pick up a few enemies . ’ |
| 12 | You pick up the plate , touch your nose and then you touch the bottom of the plate and then stroke your cheek and nose . |
| 13 | It 's a thankless task then , because despite having become the most successful band of the time , you pick up flak for the next album not working commercially . |
| 14 | If you pick up something like a Super 400 you play things like Fade To Black rather than Heavy Fuel . |
| 15 | It 's nice when you pick up a guitar , knowing it to be a company 's idea of what a first electric should be like , and finding that they 've got it just about right . |
| 16 | You are advised to keep your answer to question 5 as concise as possible ( no more than a few sentences ) ; be sure that you know exactly what you want to say before you pick up the phone . |
| 17 | The most important pre-flight check is to ensure that you pick up the handles so that right and left align with the correct bridles . |
| 18 | ‘ We do n't like the term price war because that implies that these holidays are the type of bargain basement deal you pick up at the last minute . |
| 19 | As you go on , you pick up presents , and if you 're lucky you 'll find a man dressed as a carrot who tells you what 's in them . |
| 20 | Whenever you pick up a heavy load , bend both legs . |
| 21 | These two people , whose success is almost totally dependent upon the effectiveness of the publicity machines which have made them into heroes , are currently ( eternally , it seems ) in just about every magazine and paper you pick up . |
| 22 | Halfway through a d-i-y job , when you reach for a screwdriver , do you always seem to find the right tip and size on the last you pick up ? |
| 23 | He said : ‘ These are not 500 bananas that you pick up in a supermarket and put in your basket and take somewhere else . |
| 24 | The best thing is — nothing can beat this — when you pick up the phone and tell them who you are , the repair man will always come round . |
| 25 | ‘ Probably it 's one of the strange things you pick up , ’ he said , quoting her . |
| 26 | If you want to leave a copy of the icon in the original group as well , just use Ctrl=click when you pick up the icon . |
| 27 | If you pick up the phone and ring to get seats here you will very often find that you ca n't get through . |
| 28 | When you pick up a round stone now , walk to the dinosaur 's back and you 'll automatically go up and put a piece of roof on . |
| 29 | It 's when you pick up one of the guns , feel the metal , that their potentiality strikes you , and you marvel at the precision and care put into them . |
| 30 | The COSMOS Consumer Protection Plan covers virtually every aspect of your holiday from the moment you pick up our brochure to the moment you arrive back home ( See pages 12 , 13 ) . |