Example sentences of "[noun sg] picked [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mouth picked up at the corners and she just had to laugh . |
| 2 | Trent imagined Golden Girl picked up by the surf and flung tumbling and splintering into fragments . |
| 3 | They could see his headlight beam picked out beneath the gas layer , as it swept the area , then lifting up towards them like a searchlight cutting through cloud . |
| 4 | Among particularly serious instances of pollution picked out in the report were the following : , Heavy use of pesticides polluting rivers across the crop growing areas of the Russian republic ; , Untreated industrial effluent from the Volga slowly killing off the marine life of the Caspian Sea ; , High levels of dioxin in mothers ' milk in Moscow ; , The continuing consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear accident , rendering much of the countryside of the Ukraine and Belorussia uncultivatable ; , Waste from aluminium factories in Uzbekistan , poisoning the land for miles around . |
| 5 | The police say his clothes may also have been covered in mud picked up during the attack . |
| 6 | Loyalist sources close to the now banned UDA say ‘ information ’ from a former leading UDA member which was forwarded to the US lawyers is flawed and is based on hearsay picked up after the event . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , the crop-haired young man picked up by the police turned out to be a journalist trying to infiltrate a skinhead gang for a story . |
| 8 | Carelessness — the thing picked up off the hall mat , thrust into her pocket and forgotten — or deliberate appropriation ? |
| 9 | Worse was expected to come as industrial and domestic consumption of electricity picked up after the attrition of the war years . |
| 10 | Down on the beach , the Big Wheel was still going round , its elegant shape picked out against the blackness of sea and sky by coloured lights , fixed at intervals , along its slender struts . |
| 11 | Water that has evaporated and condensed in the upper atmosphere , and then falls as rain , should be pure , except for a little carbon dioxide picked up on the way down ( although in fact , these days , it tends also to contain a whole catalogue of pollutants ) . |
| 12 | The proposition picked out by the utterance of ( 71 ) , as with the referent of next Thursday , depends on complex interactions between deictic and non-deictic factors . |
| 13 | Dell says it delayed the introduction of the Dimension machines until the small office and home office market picked up outside the US , but it also had to get its European manufacturing facility in Limerick , Ireland tooled up . |
| 14 | His eyes played over the building in front of them — a jumble of towers , crenellations and massive walls with a sagging Rag of St George above the gatehouse picked out in the beam of a spotlight . |
| 15 | Sheffield Wednesday midfielder John Sheridan has had to withdraw from the Republic squad , following the thigh injury picked up in the FA Cup final replay defeat against Arsenal on Thursday at Wembley . |