Example sentences of "[be] pick up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be completely safe , he activated his automatic call-signal which would be picked up on the ground . |
| 2 | Nor was she unaware of the interest Matt and Silas took in her movements , having caught glances passing between them as they paused to watch her fold the table napkins round the knives and forks which were left in readiness to be picked up from the end of the table . |
| 3 | When working with mice in an isolator they may be picked up by the base of their tail using a pair of large forceps with rubber sleeves on their tips . |
| 4 | Larvae may also be picked up by the bloodstream and carried to other organs ; and some might reach the anterior mesenteric artery , which is the main source of blood to the intestines . |
| 5 | Then , in the late afternoon , Eric would be picked up by the US postal jeep , which carried important military mail from Milan to Rome by way of Verona , Bologna and Florence , and arrive in Rome at first light the following morning . |
| 6 | Well yes I , no , I would endorse that and , and hopefully perhaps you know the comments that have been made will be picked up by the press . |
| 7 | But her remarks in America would subsequently be picked up by the papers here — so she would have two platforms . |
| 8 | His co-pilot radioed the command centre , requesting a fix in order to enable him to plot the best route back to Britain , or at least to the channel where he could be picked up by the coastguard or a spotter plane . |
| 9 | If you are on your GP 's books , then you 'll be picked up by the schemes . |
| 10 | If you are on GP 's books , then you 'll be picked up by the schemes . |
| 11 | ‘ And the commission would not agree to postpone payment until slaughter unless we could guarantee that it would be picked up by the holder of the animal when it was ten months old . ’ |
| 12 | When recordings were made using DC amplifiers it became apparent that during REM sleep the eyes were almost constantly in motion , making slow , roving movements which would not be picked up by the standard ( AC ) amplifying equipment . |
| 13 | Green sometimes accompanied by his wife , was often in Keswick on business ( he would set off walking from Ambleside , and be picked up by the carrier at Wyburn ) and would call to visit his children , and take them out for walks down to Derwentwater . |
| 14 | He would remove the radios from aircraft B and substitute them with the radios stolen from aircraft A. He would then be picked up by the aircraft he came in , leaving with the radios removed from aircraft B. |
| 15 | On the secret deal deferring payment for Rover until next March , Lord Young writes : ‘ I can offer three possibilities , in ascending order of risk that the deferment will be picked up by the commission , in which case they might require repayment of the notional interest saved . |
| 16 | We have n't even got a system , as far as I understand it , that 's compatible , so that it 's possible for me to send my reading lists to , for instance , so they can be picked up by the library . |
| 17 | Erm there are a number of matters which need to be picked up by the county council as a result of requests which we made on Friday and also you will note that a number of additional papers have been laid on the table . |
| 18 | Am I going to some strange hospital with him to see his dad , or am I going to wander around Bristol all day waiting to be picked up by the police or my poor darling anxious parents ? |
| 19 | Once they start to hatch the emerging fry will be picked up in the parent 's mouth and deposited into a pre-dug pit , or under the edge of a rock . |
| 20 | As well as X400 , X25 , Async and Bisync , it is now also offering Odette File Transfer Protocol , enabling dropped sessions to be picked up in the middle of transmission . |
| 21 | TWW , in fact , was a good example of a consortium put together from interests reflecting the shape of the franchise area , which was partly dictated by the fact that the signal for Wales would also be picked up in the West Country . |
| 22 | Such a thing not having happened for many centuries , the idea , even though the smell of cordite had spread across the Channel and could be picked up in the Charing Cross Road , seemed difficult to envisage . |
| 23 | By half-term , a local parent with a child at Cedars had offered to put Balbinder on the coach in the morning and let him stay at her house until he could be picked up in the evening . |
| 24 | Lack of proper planning and provision is likely to be picked up in the review of day care services which local authorities are obliged to conduct every three years ( s19 ) . |
| 25 | As he was wearing only trousers and shoes he knew that he would soon be picked up in the town , so he got away through alleys and into the country . |
| 26 | But right now Eurotunnel shares can be picked up in the market at around £3.60 . |
| 27 | Excessive perspiration in poorly ventilated footwear invites infection which can also be picked up in the changing rooms of public swimming pools or sports centres . |