Example sentences of "[pron] pick up a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This obviously absorbing hobby is a good stress reliever , ‘ It 's pure escapism and therapeutic — if I have had a frustrating day at work , the minute I get home I pick up a piece of modelling plastic and start modelling , ’ said Rosemary . |
| 2 | ‘ Dragging also depends on size , so if I pick up a bunch of stuff I get a lower dragging sound than if I pick up just one . |
| 3 | Someone picks up a bill from the floor , opens it . |
| 4 | Then I picked up a bit of naan bread and mopped up my curry sauce . |
| 5 | But the pitch was wet when I picked up a swag against them at Bradford . |
| 6 | Later I picked up a station from Orlando , WINS — I listened to a maudlin piece about the poor families of soldiers and pilots . |
| 7 | One of the most arduous of these was in my junior days when I picked up a seaman in the docks attempting to sell cigarettes to a factory worker . |
| 8 | ‘ I picked up a bug in Germany at the weekend ’ explained McManus , who contested a European League game in Augsburg , where more than eight inches of snow fell in 48 hours . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't like making excuses but I picked up a bug in Germany at the weekend and have n't been able to shake it off , ’ explained world No13 McManus . |
| 10 | And I picked up a load of washing the other day and put it in the washing machine and I washed it . |
| 11 | I picked up a handful of dirty snow and brushed the crust off the top . |
| 12 | I picked up a lot about different species and their habitat , simply by listening to Maureen talk about the lifestyles of the birds she was looking after . |
| 13 | At the meat fridge I picked up a pack of ground beef . |
| 14 | And I picked up a pack of contraceptives . |
| 15 | I picked up a towel off the floor — it was still damp — and his ordinary clothes , the creaseless grey flannels and aged corduroy jacket which he wore day in , day out , were slung across the bed . |
| 16 | They left , and while the adults were talking and stuffing themselves , I picked up a piece of pig 's pudding for Frankie who was still huddled by the fire . |
| 17 | I was in a French class at school when I picked up a copy of the magazine , which had been lying on one of the tables . |
| 18 | A few weeks ago I picked up a tray of plants from the greenhouse border and was delighted to see a baby toad sitting in a hallow in the soil . |
| 19 | In the five interesting events the detectors of UAI show a track in the central detector leading to a single cell in the electromagnetic calorimeter , which picks up a lot of energy . |
| 20 | He went to Italy on his own and eventually made himself pick up a girl in Rome , mostly for the sake of having someone to speak his new Italian to , but she thought his intense shyness some sort of perversion and kicked him out . |
| 21 | O K , you pick up a bonus for that , anybody else on the team come up with something positive about unit linking that 'll make me say , yes , I like this one ? |
| 22 | If you pick up a handful of ordinary package brochures , America will be there : Crystal , Inghams , Intasun , Neilson and Thomson all have new or expanded American programmes . |
| 23 | Her dislike of him was such that during the filming of A Letter to Four Wives , in which she picks up a photograph of a man and reacts with distaste , director Joe Mankiewicz used a photo of Preminger which prompted exactly the right expression from Darnell . |
| 24 | Erm , could you pick up a pint of milk at the Seven Eleven for us , hang on , I 'll give you some money . |
| 25 | As the door closed behind him , she picked up a wad of tissues and threw them after him , scowling darkly as they fluttered harmlessly to the floor . |
| 26 | In the living room she picked up a couple of wine glasses from the floor and set them down on a coffee table . |
| 27 | She picked up a Biro off his desk and levelled it at him . |
| 28 | She picked up a sheet of estate agent 's particulars . |
| 29 | She picked up a brush from the dressing-table and began sweeping it through her thick , luxuriant hair . |
| 30 | But Miss Angus slapped her wrist sharply with a teaspoon , as she picked up a paperback with her other hand and examined it closely . |