Example sentences of "[noun sg] pick [adv prt] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's compact and has a shortwave capacity to pick up stations around the globe . |
| 2 | In agricultural districts school attendance registers showed poor attendance at harvest time when girls of ten or eleven were set to work picking up stones in the fields . |
| 3 | jobs , maybe a good eye to pick up faults in the pattern and that but as for you have to be clever I think it 's senseless . |
| 4 | In English , the term tiger picks out instances of the category ‘ tiger ’ today and will still do so tomorrow . |
| 5 | Girls seem to have worked mainly at the surface picking out stones from the coal . |
| 6 | In Alton Locke Kingsley takes the reader into a house like the ones depicted by Godwin with the caption given ( Fig. 35 ) , where the rushlight picks up reflections through the broad chinks in the floorboards of the sewer below . |
| 7 | And I often see her walking past with the children on the way to pick up others from the school . |
| 8 | Passengers were ordered off as the double-decker picked up casualties from the Welcome Inn at Eltham , London . |