Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] pick [adv prt] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did pick up a lot of younger listeners with the early evening shows and it 's harder for them to tune in now , which I regret , but , without wanting to sound melodramatic , I would have done myself a mischief if I 'd carried on and I already feel better . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I did pick up a lot of younger listeners with the early evening shows and it 's harder for them to tune in now , which I regret , but , without wanting to sound melodramatic , I would have done myself a mischief if I 'd carried on and I already feel better . ’ |
| 3 | I had picked up a bit of surgery from him , of course , so here I am . |
| 4 | I had picked up a box of letters and was glancing at them , when Frankenstein returned from above and caught me . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've picked up a bit , ’ Emily said , ‘ but the law takes a kind of mind . |
| 6 | I 'm a dealer and I 've picked up a couple of pieces which I can probably place with clients |
| 7 | There 's the odd exception where I 've picked up a brand new one and it 's worked right away . |
| 8 | I THINK I 'VE PICKED UP A BUG OF SOME SORT . |
| 9 | ‘ I have to pick up a helper . |
| 10 | An employee of the port authority , dressed in a grey uniform , will indicate a space at the main wharf either stern or bow-to which involves picking up a mooring to hold the bow or stern off the quay . |
| 11 | Mr do you want to pick up a point ? |
| 12 | We now know for certain that the Theobalds are doubtful , that Percy and Lois Hollis will ‘ do their best ’ , and we have had a late flash that Poppy Winterton thinks she has picked up a mystery virus . |
| 13 | ‘ You had deliberately led me to believe that you 'd picked up a stranger in Bruges , and naturally I had assumed him to be a Belgian . ’ |
| 14 | her husband died she 'd picked out a bit of land all this and I borrowed this and one thing and another , so well they never found a penny ! |
| 15 | Soundlessly she mimed picking up a phone and speaking into it . |
| 16 | You 've picked up a book — you might even have bought it — that you thought was about cancer , but all you 're getting is an incoherent autobiography about an unknown . |
| 17 | It was clear that she had picked up a lot from the Prince 's own style , especially the self-deprecating wit . |
| 18 | So Katie made the following comment shortly after she had picked up a card showing Mitch from Baywatch : |
| 19 | Once you have picked up a signal you concentrate in that area until the signal is received at the greatest possible volume . |
| 20 | Up ahead Neil Coles was putting together a 66 , which eventually saw him tie with Johnny , but by the fifth or sixth , when we 'd picked up a couple of birdies to Johnny 's pars or bogey , I thought , ‘ This is our Open . ’ |
| 21 | You see , we 've picked up a thief who had a cape he admits to stealing . |
| 22 | ‘ We 've picked up a distress signal . |
| 23 | The couple were taken to police headquarters for questioning where they admitted they had picked up a man on the night of 10 July by the harbour but did not know him and had only given him a lift into town . |
| 24 | And finally two Ayr police officers said that a shelved 1969 report showed they had picked up a man ‘ of slight build and a Glasgow accent who said his name was McGuigan or McGuinness ’ some 600 yards from the Ross bungalow in the early hours of the morning of the murder and dropped him at the bus station ; and they now declared from photographs recently shown to them that the man was William McGuinness . |
| 25 | In sampling and inspecting water quality he is his own agent to decide where and when he goes to pick up a sample . |
| 26 | Norman Dale , 50 , was struck down as he tried to pick up a cup of tea . |
| 27 | The next night he remembered to pick up a video on the way back from work . |
| 28 | He had picked up a fare in the City — an army deserter called Percy Toplis , who asked to be driven to Basingstoke . |
| 29 | His reputation as a hard man — he had picked up a conviction for GBH — had won him work on the bouncer circuit and the title ‘ King of the Bouncers ’ . |
| 30 | The 26-year-old striker later claimed he had picked up a groin injury but then breached club regulations and widened the rift with Wilkinson by failing to turn up for training or treatment on Monday and Tuesday . |