Example sentences of "[noun pl] pick up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside his ears picked up for the first time the rustling of invisible leaves and the rattle of window-frames : the wind was rising . |
| 2 | Instead , we gradually get the horse used to having its feet picked up , little by little , until it will tolerates having its feet picked up for a longer time without causing any fuss . |
| 3 | Things picked up in the forties , of course , during the war . |
| 4 | When Lucy went around the dressing rooms picking up after the final number , her hands shook . |
| 5 | Deee-Lite are three hitch-hikers picked up in a red 1962 Falcon station wagon that levitates into the clouds . |
| 6 | In East Yorkshire they are glacial erratics , stones picked up in the last Ice Age , worn smooth , and deposited as the ice retreated . |