Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] pick [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The non-crystalline , that is the amorphous cellulose , has no mechanism for protecting its hydroxyls from moisture , since most of them are not firmly attached to their neighbours , and so they pick up a shell , round each hydroxyl , of any water molecules which are available . |
| 2 | Mark Hughes slotted in comfortably at centre-back , although he picked up a booking and went close to receiving a red card . |
| 3 | ‘ Dragging also depends on size , so if I pick up a bunch of stuff I get a lower dragging sound than if I pick up just one . |
| 4 | It moves another two inches and stops , then another two inches and stops , and continues like so until I pick up the rod and strike . |
| 5 | He did n't move until I picked up the poker . |
| 6 | If you pick up a sea cucumber , do so with care , for they have an extravagant way of defending themselves . |
| 7 | If you pick up a handful of ordinary package brochures , America will be there : Crystal , Inghams , Intasun , Neilson and Thomson all have new or expanded American programmes . |
| 8 | If you pick up the phone and ring to get seats here you will very often find that you ca n't get through . |
| 9 | So resolute are they at keeping hold of one another that even if you pick up the mother , her babies will still hang on to her in a wriggling furry rope . |
| 10 | If we pick up the leg of a horse that is not used to it , it may tolerate it for a second or two , and then snatch it back from us . |
| 11 | Hankin planned to select Ellison until he picked up a hamstring injury . |
| 12 | He delivered a sermon during which everyone stood still , until he picked up a handful of earth and spoke in a deep voice : ‘ Ashes to ashes . |
| 13 | Then , if he picked up the news magazines he was forced to read about it over and over again . |
| 14 | In the front seat by Des I fiddle with my receiver till I pick up the signal from the mike in his pocket . |
| 15 | She followed him to the gunroom , shouting , while he picked up a tweed coat . |
| 16 | The interesting point is that , that I feel is , that this is , this , this , this all has a very heavy bearing on the regulatory system , because I think that really we 're now being financial services is a global village and you know whether somebody picks up a phone and di I think in fact did n't you have somebody gave evidence here and said that they could not investigate one of Maxwell 's transactions , because it had gone through the New York office . |
| 17 | Rodi 's second husband Gordon , 64 , died two months before she picked up the cheque from Bergerac star John Nettles . |
| 18 | You are advised to keep your answer to question 5 as concise as possible ( no more than a few sentences ) ; be sure that you know exactly what you want to say before you pick up the phone . |
| 19 | The writer may well have assumed that most book buyers already know of the existence of a writer called Ernest Hemingway , and even if they did not before they picked up the book , they would already have seen his name on the cover before turning to read this biographical sketch inside . |
| 20 | It exploded after he picked up the device which had fallen from underneath a car outside a house on the Antrim Road . |
| 21 | He leant on the car and lit a cigarette , puffing at it before he picked up the radio again . |
| 22 | I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen . |
| 23 | But the pitch was wet when I picked up a swag against them at Bradford . |
| 24 | I was in a French class at school when I picked up a copy of the magazine , which had been lying on one of the tables . |
| 25 | When I picked up the ball I did n't see the crowd , just that basket . ’ |
| 26 | As I picked up the knife from the rubble by the table I was waking . |
| 27 | It 's nice when you pick up a guitar , knowing it to be a company 's idea of what a first electric should be like , and finding that they 've got it just about right . |
| 28 | That 's right , yes , every time you answer the telephone for an external call , when you pick up the telephone , you are representing Oxford University Press , it does n't matter who you are , and it does n't matter where you are , it does n't matter whether you 're in Eynsham , in Walton Street , in Corby , anywhere . |
| 29 | When you pick up the phone , say ‘ Good morning afternoon ’ and announce the name of the company or department . |
| 30 | The best thing is — nothing can beat this — when you pick up the phone and tell them who you are , the repair man will always come round . |