Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] pick up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ferric-chloride side of the cell then picks up the electron from the quinone reduction while the ascorbic-acid side donates an electron to the porphyrin ( oxidation ) . |
| 2 | Now , in addition to that , and I do n't know if this is the source of the confusion , we 've also made provision in the ninety four five budget for another er camera site operation , except that it 's a lower figure because that does n't actually include the camera because we made it clear that as a result of the decision last time here we did n't want to create a , a permanent precedent that this committee always picked up the bill for the camera . |
| 3 | STRANGELY , THE climax of the Dollars trilogy is a prequel to the others , set during the Civil War and showing how Clint Eastwood 's Man With No Name gradually picks up the props — the poncho , the sheepskin jacket , the cigar — that mark his identity in the other films . |
| 4 | ‘ Coming for a ride out to pick up the kids ? ’ |
| 5 | Sometimes it just rushed round things ; other times it flattened all in its path then picked up the debris and flung it away . |
| 6 | Had the chauffeur ever picked up the Prince from the neighbourhood ? |
| 7 | This is particularly true , and actually is what I 'm leading to in this story is that three years later , when Robert Priest hit Esquire two years later , the Rolling Stone look was supplanted by the Esquire look in terms of popular design and imagination , and I remember people said to me ‘ well Roger what are you going to do , your style is out of date ’ and my reaction to this was ‘ well , hold on a second , it 's not my style for one , and number two this is just traditional style , this was never intended to be a trend ’ , and fortunately it 's sort of gone — right now it 's back — so Rolling Stone even picked up the format that , you know , the Morris–Jenson typeface that we did for headline and stuff , and it 's back in there . |