Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] pick [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After sewing the neck shape I either overlock the shoulders or pick up the stitches on a darning needle using the same colour yarn . |
| 2 | Mike Pumfrey , now back in the study with Sergeant Fenniway , put his finger to his lips and picked up the extension phone . |
| 3 | Slowly he got to his feet and picked up the newspaper . |
| 4 | The American embassy in London reported on 23 November 1956 that " anti-American feeling is at a very high pitch and yet is accompanied by the somewhat contradictory but nevertheless complacent assumption that the U.S. is bound to come to its senses and pick up the check " . |
| 5 | I then deliberately smudge the area with my fingers and pick out the highlights with a plastic eraser . |
| 6 | I then deliberately smudge the area with my fingers and pick out the highlights with a plastic eraser . |
| 7 | Party manners — Hewlett-Packard Co hosted all the COSE meetings and picked up the pizza tab ; Sun Microsystems Inc then threw a celebratory dinner for the COSE teams on April 16 , the night before the announcement : now it 's IBM Corp 's turn , unless Lou Gerstner decides to sit it out , pleading poverty . |
| 8 | Hewlett-Packard Co hosted all the COSE meetings and picked up the pizza tab . |
| 9 | Because of his other highly classified projects , his office already contained all the paraphernalia of necessary secrecy : the code-block and buttons on the door , the gaggle of different-coloured telephones , the five-thousand-pound safes , even the tempered glass in the windows , as his lawyer noted at his trial , ‘ so that enemies of the country ca n't beam through the windows and pick up the sound ’ . |
| 10 | She put down her two shopping bags and picked up the shoe-polish . |
| 11 | Sometimes it seemed that those who loved them were almost willing the band to spend their lives touring pubs , returning to Farnborough merely to return the empties and pick up the bills . |