Example sentences of "picked up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All members of poor families picked up work whenever possible from the earliest ages — a means of survival which was easiest in the big cities where the largest number of casual jobs could be found such as cleaning , running errands and childminding . |
| 2 | Money was bad , but he was still working for Liberty and picked up work on Pageant magazine . |
| 3 | Bourke also claims that another prisoner in the same wing picked up part of their nightly conversations on his radio . |
| 4 | She crouched and picked up part of the brickwork that had crumbled away from a supporting pillar . |
| 5 | Last year , it acquired the small Abbots and Sussex dairies , also based in the south , and in January picked up part of the Co-operative Wholesale Society 's milk distribution business . |
| 6 | After they had eaten , Kalchu picked up Sigarup in his blanket , holding the limp body draped across his two forearms as he would a child . |
| 7 | Erm the education side you picked up university and school fees . |
| 8 | The morning train from Sidney picked up milk from various farms for shipment to Victoria and on at least one occasion it was held up for two hours while cows , that had been turned into the bush the previous night to pick up what nourishment they could were searched for , rounded up , milked and the milk loaded for the trip to town . |
| 9 | The villagers , who were provided with free refuse sacks and gloves by the borough council , picked up litter along the River Tees embankment . |
| 10 | Remember the sensational flurry a couple of years back when we picked up word that IBM Corp was considering making an agreed offer for Apple Computer Inc ? |
| 11 | Well straw I picked up strawberry jam and that was sixty two |
| 12 | Winston ‘ Scotty ’ Moore grew up in Humbolt , Tennessee , around 80 miles from Memphis , and picked up guitar by listening to his father and three older brothers . |
| 13 | Cos there 's computer-generated and picked up graphite from pencil |
| 14 | The poll , taken at the same time as the Rio Earth Summit , picked up concern about the environment . |
| 15 | Let's curl your hair , I picked up brush and comb |
| 16 | Jotan picked up harness . |
| 17 | By the age of 10 she was playing whist , and two years later , while holidaying with an uncle in the Netherlands , she picked up bridge . |
| 18 | The ladies team is headed by Carol Greenwood who won a big international race in the Pyrennes just last week while three of the junior men team picked up silver team medals at last year 's World Cup in Italy . |
| 19 | They picked up power from a spider 's web of unsightly overhead wires . |
| 20 | Four children who stroked Easter lambs picked up cryptosporidium … the same bug that contaminated some water supplies in the area four years ago . |
| 21 | As well as capturing Irwin from Elland Road , they picked up defender Andy Linighan for £45,000 and sold him on to Norwich for £350,000 — and they got an extra £150,000 when he moved to Arsenal for £1 million . |
| 22 | The hand closed over the receiver picked up vibration , and the cord to the microphone went up the wearer 's sleeve unobtrusively . |
| 23 | Three or four weeks ago , everyone watched the first wobbles of his journey with a critical eye , so critical , in fact , that they did not notice when he picked up speed later . |
| 24 | As they picked up speed along the main tarmac road it was already 3 a.m . |
| 25 | They took a left turn and picked up speed . |
| 26 | All shale and weeds and winds that picked up speed as they swooped in off the ocean , this strip of barren land prepared you for the final desolation of the Crumbles . |
| 27 | And as the ship freed herself from the mule-lines and her screw began to chum up a wake of umber , sludgy water , and she picked up speed towards the marker buoys and the farewell beacon on Flamenco Island , I was sure I could see the seamen still , pointing their cameras back — now with long lenses all — towards the statue of Balboa which stands on the Panama City seafront , with the great man gazing out at the Ocean into which the Poles were now , at long last , sailing . |
| 28 | Once out of the village they picked up speed and took a road that would zigzag through five hamlets before bringing them to the only cart track that wound up the lower slopes of the mountain . |
| 29 | Chant did so , slamming the cab door with no little satisfaction , and barely managing to reach the seat before the cab picked up speed . |
| 30 | The car picked up speed and shot off into the distance . |