Example sentences of "picked up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patients , to Aline , were fascinating mental problems to be picked up each time one walked on duty and put down directly one walked out of the ward . |
| 2 | By the time the threatened rain arrived around 4pm , 70 overs had been bowled , 50 of them by spinners , there had been two 100-run partnerships and Boon and Whitaker had picked up stylish half-centuries . |
| 3 | Some 75 per cent of Perkins ' UK production is shipped overseas , and the company has picked up four Queen 's Awards for export over the past few years . |
| 4 | Lauda only picked up four points from the two races . |
| 5 | A second canoe on this mission was paddled back to be safely picked up five miles from the English coast . |
| 6 | Volunteers recently picked up eight tons of litter left by them . |
| 7 | Picked up expensive habits , too . |
| 8 | Stoke have picked up 14 points from their last seven games . |
| 9 | Have you picked up that plant ? |
| 10 | His sharp ears , predictably , had picked up that nuance . |
| 11 | There was something a little cold at her heart — as when she had picked up that book to read while he was fucking her . |
| 12 | By mid-morning she had done what housework she was prepared to do , and although she had used the vacuum cleaner , her nose felt full of dust , her heart heavy : she had picked up all manner of objects — scent bottles , jugs , a Staffordshire dog — wiped them desultorily and put them back . |
| 13 | Master Butcher Howard Callaghan and shop manager Alan Dean who had picked up first prize for an impressive window display in a competition in Harrogate on Monday , spent yesterday cleaning up the mess . |
| 14 | Short hypotheses looked more promising than long ones simply because more of their score was an estimate ; they had not picked up actual shortfall . |
| 15 | As expected ( UX No 422 ) , the Open Software Foundation has picked up new widget technology from Lotus Development Corp , IBM Corp and Digital Equipment Corp to enhance its Motif graphical user interface . |
| 16 | His own sources among the Altun had picked up vague hints of another conception upon which Sidacai had drawn or to which he had been led . |
| 17 | Finally , I have just picked up another item on railway laws : — |
| 18 | PICKED UP another £30,000 for sabbaticals — study leave — that he did not take . |
| 19 | Or perhaps it was merely an accident that Marcus had picked up those utterances of his ancestors . |
| 20 | The truth is that some members of the Liverpool board had misgivings about the way Swansea were run and wondered if Toshack might have picked up bad habits . |
| 21 | After a period of use the heads may well have picked up sufficient debris from the disk surface to prevent a reliable reading of the magnetic information on the disk . |
| 22 | ‘ The visit , in view of the time allocated , was necessarily superficial and only likely to have picked up gross discrepancies , ’ it said . |
| 23 | McQuaid had either struck true by pure chance or had picked up reliable gossip at the Mohill Fair . |
| 24 | Which is comparable complexity and er they have picked up considerable experience from that but , you know , I do n't wish here in this committee to in any way challenge the er capabilities or the competence of erm , of Deutsch Aerospace to undertake |
| 25 | Despite Graham 's protestations , Arsenal have picked up 23 bookings already this season and a growing injury list has further blighted the Gunners ' bid for a third championship triumph in five seasons . |
| 26 | I mean I would n't want to give away how it all works , but you have actually won five times and so how much have you actually picked up this season ? |
| 27 | An O S one to fifty thousand and that 's what I thought I 'd picked up this morning to take with me but when I looked it was Chester and Wrexham so it did n't do me much good . |
| 28 | It was the usual sequence : we 'd picked up this batch from the mass grave , in the woods , and stood waiting by the van on the approach road while the carbon monoxide went about its work . |
| 29 | AUSTRALIAN he-man Mel Gibson , best known for ‘ Mad Max ’ and ‘ Lethal Weapon ’ , has picked up kinder notices for his ‘ Hamlet ’ than perhaps he or anyone else expected . |
| 30 | ‘ We have failed to progress in Europe in recent years , but we have picked up valuable lessons from those experiences and I feel we are now ready for the challenge . ’ |