Example sentences of "[vb base] pick up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am going round London in 80 days , ’ I say , ‘ and intend to pick up a local bus at Heathrow ’ . |
| 2 | Rovers stand to pick up an extra £25,000 if their former player makes the Great Britain side . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't think that professionalism as such should have a place within the playing side of the Association , ’ states the Dungiven clubman , ‘ We play for pure enjoyment and recreation and if along the way we manage to pick up a few honours , then that 's great . |
| 4 | I remember picking up a discarded newspaper and reading about a vicious gang attack on two young men , one of whom managed to escape . |
| 5 | Some of them are pretty useless , but you do pick up a little information from each one . |
| 6 | It has much improved printer support , though , and with 3D graphs at long last arriving on the Lotus menu , some users will think they 've picked up the wrong spreadsheet ! |
| 7 | In San Salvador , children have picked up a catchy radio tune about the Condor brand of condoms and can be heard singing in the streets : " Condor is your friend , — always take him with you ! " |
| 8 | In an improbable , but typical , detour in a review of a book about corsets , she asks : ‘ How has it come about that feminists have picked up the masculine notion that those women who are n't self-confessed feminists do n't known what they 're doing , half the time ? ’ |
| 9 | They have picked up the wrong book and are probably in the wrong bookstore . |
| 10 | He watched Pie'oh'pah stoop to pick up the scattered clothes . |
| 11 | This is another good reason for working samples before starting the actual garment , you will be able to tell whether you need to pick up the laddered stitches or not and that can make a big difference to the overall tension . |
| 12 | The difference there is instead of the cheque and the banker 's order you have to pick up an official order from the BUPA hospital . |