Example sentences of "[be] [adv] pick up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps you 're not picking up the tone . |
| 2 | That shows that you 're actually picking up the sound . |
| 3 | We were just picking up the malai national programme . |
| 4 | Datacraft , a $70m Australian integrator , is also picking up the stuff . |
| 5 | Er , right , so stylistically she has erm , she 's picked up , and she 's actually picked up the patterning as well of that , whereas in the middle English one , it was , th the sight , the odour , the touch , no , it was the smell , the touch , she has used an infini an infinitive of a verb , which gets away from the problem , that we do n't use nouns for these things . |
| 6 | By the time I got to the end of the course , I was still picking up the pieces . |
| 7 | Just as I was about to pick up the pieces of card once more , I stopped transfixed . |