Example sentences of "[noun] pick up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Outside his ears picked up for the first time the rustling of invisible leaves and the rattle of window-frames : the wind was rising . |
2 | The plain walls were painted in a typically French eighteenth-century green , a colour picked up in the rich , floral design of the fabric , copied from an eighteenth-century Lyons silk , battened to the adjoining wall , and used for the opulent bed coverings . |
3 | Things picked up in the forties , of course , during the war . |
4 | Some 44 per cent of the 65 advertisers interviewed saw the economy picking up in the last quarter of this year at the earliest , and a further 35 per cent did not envisage an improvement until 1993 . |
5 | When Lucy went around the dressing rooms picking up after the final number , her hands shook . |
6 | And , says the company , it has a joint marketing agreement with Hewlett-Packard in Germany , and in the US is working with both DEC and Motorola Computer Systems in its quest to pick up on the expanding downsizing trend . |
7 | As regards the visual interpretation of each array considered in isolation , Ullman relies on the work of David Marr , who studied the information picked up from the ambient light by the retina , and the image-forming computations performed on it by peripheral levels of the visual system ( Marr 1976 , 1978 , 1979 ) . |
8 | In East Yorkshire they are glacial erratics , stones picked up in the last Ice Age , worn smooth , and deposited as the ice retreated . |
9 | In 1978 fog at Heathrow airport prevented me from flying to referee the first ever game between France and Russia , and in 1981 a leg injury picked up in the First Test prevented me refereeing the Second Test between France and New Zealand . |
10 | Paul Stewart is also having treatment on a knee injury picked up in the same match and is fighting to be fit for Monday 's Merseyside derby . |