Example sentences of "have been picked [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sincerely hope that it has been picked up by accident and that I will be re-united with it soon , as I find it hard to believe that such an incident could lead to its deliberate theft . |
| 2 | As uncertainty about the fate of commercial galleries grows , the burden of showing new artists has been picked up by unexpected agents . |
| 3 | Ahead of the appointment of Gerstner , Smith put together a report that listed 10 key things that the new man at IBM should do , and his report has been picked up by Barron 's magazine . |
| 4 | I assume that Crilly has been picked up on one of his many ‘ wanted ’ charges and that the police are calling to confirm the address he has given . |
| 5 | Wallerstein elaborated the concept of the semi-periphery to describe such countries , and this idea has been picked up by many scholars as a useful tool in analyzing the NICs and , increasingly , those countries that are on the fringes of the First World , but not exactly in the Third World , like Ireland , Portugal , and the Balkan states ( for example , Mouzelis , 1986 ) . |
| 6 | She 's only done half the course and already she has been picked out for this job . |
| 7 | Glancing at his watch , Donaldson saw that it was after five ; seven hours since he 'd been picked up at the courtroom , during which time he 'd skipped lunch and spent his afternoon handing tidbits to a bright primate . |
| 8 | There he 'd been picked up by his mother Ruth . |
| 9 | Lead from petrol bought outside the Turin area would not have been picked up in the study . |
| 10 | Instead , it lists a range of different losses which , the writs served on the two firms last March allege , should have been picked up during the course of the audits . |
| 11 | All of this will have been picked up from a multitude of cues within the family — coyness in speaking about religion , sentimental talk at Christmas-time that equates religion with belief in Santa Claus , contempt for the hypocrisy ( real or imagined ) of religious officials , and the equation of religion with fanaticism and political reaction . |
| 12 | The letters on the front of the Tivoli theatre should have been picked out in light bulbs , the " L " and the " O " were broken . |
| 13 | If the building is thought to be a temple , however , the stone axe may well be interpreted as having been picked up by someone and deliberately buried within the temple in the Roman period as an offering to the gods . |
| 14 | Our man on the iceberg was clearly miffed at not having been picked up . |
| 15 | At the end of the Gulf War , British Army authorities announced they would have to destroy all dogs which had been picked up and kept by British units in the war zone , but Dave and his colleagues decided they were n't going to let this cruel fate befall Des . |
| 16 | BEIRUT — Syrian forces freed a Lebanese air force pilot who had been picked up by a gunboat after ditching his plane in the Mediterranean yesterday , Reuter reports . |
| 17 | Leslie had stated that he actually saw a telegram saying that ‘ all had been caught ’ , but this may have referred to the four spies which had been picked up near Rye in Kent . |
| 18 | It is unlikely that any of the missing diamonds had been picked up by persons involved in the rescue or who visited the site later as only an expert would have been able to identify them as precious stones . |
| 19 | But that is not to take anything away from Rogallo whose researches with NACA at the Langley Research Center into Parawings were well known , and had been picked up by several inventive minds in the kite world . |
| 20 | This news came within a week , as he had been picked up on Myitkyina airfield , unable to walk , and a lone plane came down and took him over to Dibrugarh , where he had to stay in hospital for over a week . |
| 21 | Minutes before , as Stone had slipped surreptitiously from his house , his furtive movement had been picked up by Dan Monteith , stationed at the front of the house , concealed in a neighbouring garden . |
| 22 | Within minutes he had been picked up by a patrol car on the M5 in Gloucestershire . |
| 23 | At any rate , they had known that the Nilsen girl had n't delivered her message unless they were guessing , word having got around that she had been picked up unconscious . |
| 24 | The receiver had been picked up , and then dropped , leaving her to listen with increasing fury and frustration to the sound of Gentle making love . |
| 25 | ‘ The Commitments ’ , with an all Irish cast and based on a book by Roddy Doyle , would be perceived here as an Irish film , but director Alan Parker is English , the screenwriters were British , the costumes were designed and made in England ( to look like they had been picked up in second-hand shops in Dublin ) and , perhaps more significantly , the film was financed with American and British money . |
| 26 | She had no way of knowing that her friend had been picked up by the Communist Maquis with whom she was now living . |
| 27 | It was hardly going to be any great wrench to part with something that had been picked up so casually . |
| 28 | Quite apart from the fact that the hardware was working within one hour of delivery we found that the basic functions of each of the packages had been picked up in less than a day . |
| 29 | A government spokesman confirmed on May 22 that China had conducted an underground nuclear test ; evidence of a major nuclear explosion had been picked up by several monitoring stations the previous day . |
| 30 | How else could it be so swiftly known that a prominent member of the Royal College of Acupuncturists , say , had been picked up during the night and pinched for drunk-driving ? |