Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] pick up the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Crowther picked up the papers in front of him and set them down again very neatly . |
| 2 | Uncle Albert picked up the oars , turned the boat round , and started furiously rowing up river . |
| 3 | It was Mellor , as junior Home Office Minister , who was left by Mrs Thatcher to pick up the pieces when the last government went badly over the top in its determination to reshape television by deregulation , irrespective of quality . |
| 4 | With this message already composed in his mind , William Joyce picked up the suitcases and led his wife from the echoing terminus of glass and iron . |
| 5 | Expecting a word processor operator to pick up the elements of design , typography and layout skills by simply going on a two-day course is just not realistic . |
| 6 | I am careful not to leave even the smallest scrap of yarn lying around as mother birds pick up the pieces and use them for lining their nests . |
| 7 | Vacuum cleaner ( linked to one — a bun ) : There is nothing particularly unusual about using a vacuum cleaner to pick up the crumbs of a bun so I decided to picture a bun decorated with a vacuum cleaner on top . |
| 8 | By the time Coleman picked up the threads of the plot in February 1987 , there was still no clear plan of attack , although it was generally agreed among Hurley and his colleagues that luring Younis into a drug deal was probably the key , and that a lot of political hassle would be avoided if he could be taken , say , in international waters . |