Example sentences of "[verb] pick [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Tadpole has picked up a second firm , Isometrics , to peddle the Sparcbook to the US government , and says a second strategy to make it easier for US government bodies to buy its technology will be revealed in a couple of weeks ( UX No 381 ) . |
| 2 | Tadpole US has picked up a new president , Kenneth Cannizzaro , previously the firm 's director of business development : he 's responsible for operations and market expansion in the Americas and the Pacific Rim . |
| 3 | The BBC has picked up a similar trend . |
| 4 | Michael Roberts has picked up a two-week ban in South Africa for the second time this winter . |
| 5 | Keith Campbell , from north Belfast , has picked up a top award from computer firm Digital after coming first in the BTEC National Diploma in a computer studies course at Belfast Institute School of Informatics . |
| 6 | She walked over to the pond and bent to pick up a small pebble , skimming it across the glittering water , watching the way it bounced , then sank , leaving behind it only ripples . |
| 7 | She pretended to pick up a dropped paper napkin . |
| 8 | At Benjamin 's urging I helped pick up a wooden chest . |
| 9 | Yes , well these , all wasps of course , er tend to er hit the fruit juice at this time of the year , and that fruit juice is very often fermenting , and you get a particularly er waspish reaction , er naturally , when er somebody goes to pick up a fallen apple or windfall pear , and they pick up a handful of wasp , inadvertently , and I think this year , particularly with a shortage of water , more wasps of all species have been driven to attack fruit , er and are feeding on the er fruit juice , much of which is fermenting . |
| 10 | ‘ I am going round London in 80 days , ’ I say , ‘ and intend to pick up a local bus at Heathrow ’ . |
| 11 | In a good postwar election year , the Conservatives would normally expect to pick up a respectable number of seats in Northern England and to some extent in Scotland . |
| 12 | His experiments on the nature of lightning were truly pioneering , starting at Marly in France where a dragoon was persuaded to pick up a long brass wire inside a glass bottle which acted as an insulator . |
| 13 | I remember picking up a discarded newspaper and reading about a vicious gang attack on two young men , one of whom managed to escape . |
| 14 | And , Charles ' mind raced on , Steen could have picked up a new tottie at the Sex of One … party on the Saturday night . |
| 15 | No I would n't , cos I might have picked up a different thing . |
| 16 | The one big difference is that you wo n't have to pick up a free ticket at the exhibition prior to the race . |
| 17 | But what I had also noticed was that certain firms for example that w were er th then extant , er they in fact would s er say have a three-piece moved , and you 'd have a huge van would go to pick up a three-piece suite . |
| 18 | ‘ Not the sort of place you 'd go to pick up a new ribbon ? ’ |
| 19 | Bruce Springsteen managed to pick up a new house for £2 million less than the asking price . |
| 20 | Some of them are pretty useless , but you do pick up a little information from each one . |
| 21 | The prosecution alleged that a 37-year-old man had picked up a 29-year-old woman when she was hitch-hiking from London towards Oxford , and ‘ went berserk ’ when she rejected his sexual advances . |
| 22 | In My Early Life he says I had picked up a wide vocabulary and a liking for the feel of words fitting and falling into their places like pennies in the slot . |
| 23 | An example was ultrasound , suggested by a zoologist whose colleague 's ‘ bat detector ’ , which receives sound in ultrasonic frequencies , had picked up a strong signal emanating from a nearby ancient site . |
| 24 | When I had left your house , I had picked up a small bag . |
| 25 | He and Fonda retired to their trailer , smoked some marijuana and then came out and told the crowd of local youths that they should imagine that the two of them had just arrived in town , and , on the way , they had picked up a local girl of fifteen , and raped and left her in the bushes . |
| 26 | Clough junior , used as a lone striker , put Forest ahead after five minutes , prodding the ball wide of Hans Segers after Kingsley Black had picked up a dreadful pass by Wimbledon 's Roger Joseph . |
| 27 | Full of new hope that maybe our rethink might be working he struck into what appeared a solid fish , although this was a little misleading as the cat had picked up a little weed and once freed she quickly surrendered . |
| 28 | At the moment it seems that Labour is poised to pick up a good swathe of its targets — but not , yet , quite enough of them to put Mr Kinnock safely into Downing Street . |
| 29 | In San Salvador , children have picked up a catchy radio tune about the Condor brand of condoms and can be heard singing in the streets : " Condor is your friend , — always take him with you ! " |
| 30 | I do n't deliberately put my face in the sun — but you ca n't help picking up a slight tan from reflected sunlight , particularly if , like me , you swim a lot . |