Example sentences of "be picking [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time he seems to be picking up the signals of some approaching hostility towards him . |
| 2 | ‘ You wo n't be paying for inappropriate placements and you wo n't be picking up the bill for carers later . |
| 3 | Ninety per cent of people in residential care in Newcastle are on income support and the average time to death or discharge in residential care is three years , so his department will be picking up the whole burden by the third year . |
| 4 | We should n't be picking up the tab . |
| 5 | I can see that you 'll soon be picking up the reins . |
| 6 | What you 'll find , you 'll find in here that it 'll just be picking up the budgies mainly . |