Example sentences of "[noun] pick [pers pn] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is the pathway we have gone down , and in consequence we have reduced the amount of food that is given to our cows that could be eaten by man from 50 per cent to 14 per cent by getting the input from grass and porridge oats : food that would otherwise be wasted in a system that is not using these animals to pick it up on the way . |
| 2 | This consisted of enrolling one 's child in a private playschool , which sent a car to pick him up in the morning and deposit him back on his own doorstep in the late afternoon . |
| 3 | Hilary was eighteen when Meredith picked him up at the BBC Club . ’ |
| 4 | A branch line train took us to Aubagne where a coach picked us up for the journey up to the camp . |
| 5 | I said : ‘ You know as I drove along Princes Street to pick you up from the office I had a feeling I left something behind . |
| 6 | The boats picked us up at a pre-arranged rendezvous and we sped off again to do a foot patrol on the lough shore road . |
| 7 | Well not a lot really , like just getting people up on the bank for the ambulances to pick 'em up from the motorway . |
| 8 | I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Tooting displayed the facts well , and it was perverse of Conservative Members to pick him up for a slip of the tongue when he gave an incorrect figure , which it is relatively easy to do . |
| 9 | A middle-aged man picked me up on the M4 near Swindon and offered me a lift to London , which was very convenient . |
| 10 | Two of the archers picked me up under the armpits and hustled me down the steps of the scaffold . |
| 11 | I 'll tell Jack Dodson to pick 'er up for the fatstock market on Thursday . |