Example sentences of "[vb infin] pick up a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a good postwar election year , the Conservatives would normally expect to pick up a respectable number of seats in Northern England and to some extent in Scotland . |
| 2 | And , Charles ' mind raced on , Steen could have picked up a new tottie at the Sex of One … party on the Saturday night . |
| 3 | No I would n't , cos I might have picked up a different thing . |
| 4 | The one big difference is that you wo n't have to pick up a free ticket at the exhibition prior to the race . |
| 5 | But what I had also noticed was that certain firms for example that w were er th then extant , er they in fact would s er say have a three-piece moved , and you 'd have a huge van would go to pick up a three-piece suite . |
| 6 | ‘ Not the sort of place you 'd go to pick up a new ribbon ? ’ |
| 7 | I do n't deliberately put my face in the sun — but you ca n't help picking up a slight tan from reflected sunlight , particularly if , like me , you swim a lot . |