Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] pick up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carbon monoxide picks up an electron ( is reduced ) to form the radical anion CO which reacts further with another CO or with carbon monoxide itself to form oxocarbon anions . |
| 2 | One advantage of using a hearing-aid is in hearing one 's own voice ‘ from the outside ’ — the aid microphone picks up the voice of the user as well as voices of other people . |
| 3 | He , they were late to bed I 'd had them erm round at the shops and then er er Queensway , then the shopping centre to pick up a card for for Chris . |
| 4 | I could n't wait to finish at the studio that day so I could slip down the record shop to pick up a copy , and several months later I still have n't stopped playing it . |
| 5 | Erm , the buy who was gon na do it , unfortunately has eye trouble and er towards the beginning of the start , quite near to the start his er eye trouble picked up a lot more . |
| 6 | The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years . |
| 7 | Certainly the kind of modern-day would-be Kerouac who survives entirely on the proceeds from trading-in free albums and indulging in the fine art of ‘ ligging ’ — tagging along to any show in town where the record company picks up the catering bill — is not extinct . |
| 8 | Inside the panelled room Buckmaster picked up a malacca cane , pointed to the wall over the fireplace . |
| 9 | Two years later , the War Office picked up the idea and soon the system was adopted by the army and navy . |
| 10 | The back person picks up the ball and runs to the front . |
| 11 | A growing trend in North America is for parents to pay a laundry service to pick up a bucket each day . |
| 12 | Leading his daughter , he reiterated his promise to come in after morning surgery to pick up the squirrel and return the cage later , and when the door closed Sophie turned to Joanna . |
| 13 | The best stories , though , are perhaps the first , about a middle-aged bachelor farming alone after his mother dies , and the last , about a member of the village brass band picking up a woman on a bus trip to Venice . |
| 14 | Visitors should not be put off by the modern appearance of this roof , nor by the notice on the gate to the abbey field which indicates a slight trek back along the lane to Abbey Farm to pick up the key to view St Leonard 's Church , Kirkstead . |
| 15 | As this trip was taking much longer than planned , due to many orbits and several beautiful parts of the coastline flown as slowly as possible , we expedited lunch , and were soon airborne heading north to pick up the coast again . |
| 16 | She could n't help thinking that Cara , who had been known to take the car to go as far as the corner shop to pick up a bottle of milk , would have folded long before this . |
| 17 | From the Brigadier 's office the Captain telephoned Maxwell at the Excelsior , sending Bacci through to the communicating duty room to pick up the phone there . |
| 18 | Cyril Reenan , 70 , who used a radio scanner to pick up the call , told a newspaper : ‘ Knowing what I do now , I think I would have tried to warn Diana her conversations were being overheard . |
| 19 | FARM Minister John Gummer faces a Commons grilling after a food firm picked up the £2,600 bill to landscape his garden . |
| 20 | 6 : Simple but effective : adding band spraying nozzles to the front of a nine-row self-steer Standen rear hoe picked up a bronze medal for Philip Kew , Bank Farm , Saddlebow , Kings Lynn . |
| 21 | Expecting a word processor operator to pick up the elements of design , typography and layout skills by simply going on a two-day course is just not realistic . |
| 22 | Vacuum cleaner ( linked to one — a bun ) : There is nothing particularly unusual about using a vacuum cleaner to pick up the crumbs of a bun so I decided to picture a bun decorated with a vacuum cleaner on top . |
| 23 | Henry beat hot competition from Lovejoy Ian McShane and Noel Edmonds , whose TV show Noel 's House Party picked up a BAFTA award . |
| 24 | He beat hot competition from Lovejoy Ian McShane and Noel Edmonds , whose TV show Noel 's House Party picked up a BAFTA award at the weekend . |