Example sentences of "picks up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other player then picks up four beads from one hole on her side and plays in the same way . |
| 2 | However , vibration of sounds at 800 cycles per second and below is the limit of information , the vibrator picks up unwanted sounds which may drown the signals which you want to receive . |
| 3 | I think this both cumbersome and wrong ; the flesh of the fish picks up other flavours very easily , particularly those of spices — pepper , coriander , allspice or whatever else is used to flavour the stock . |
| 4 | The function contains a loop which picks up one character at a time and classifies it . |
| 5 | Set the microphone so that it picks up that group and use the resulting recording to set tasks for trainees which focus them on the learner . |
| 6 | mm , any body who picks up that frame dad on its own , is gon na think bloody hell that 's |
| 7 | Completer ( Finisher ) : Picks up loose ends , checks details , ensures completion . |
| 8 | The nine-year-old has been a fine servant for trainer David Nicholson and , although a few pounds below the very best over two miles , he picks up enough prize-money each year to comfortably pay his oats bill . |
| 9 | The Rock picks up several points made in earlier Criterion commentaries . |
| 10 | Old Spannerbreaker picks up another award for his moody performance in a series of popular ads . |
| 11 | He grins at the effect he has produced , and picks up more cheese crumbs on his finger . |
| 12 | Intermediate wringing during the drying stage speeds up the process , as mop absorption rates vary in that the more water a mop holds the slower it picks up more water . |
| 13 | The discoidal HDL picks up free cholesterol from the cell membranes and , possibly , from remnant particles and LDL . |
| 14 | Manufacturers and packagers have arranged to pick up transport wrappings from retailers and have set up a parallel waste-collection scheme , called the ‘ Duales System Deutscheland ’ , ( DSD ) which picks up recyclable packaging from households and returns it to the manufacturers . |
| 15 | The image sometimes shows incomplete leaves , base and tip present with a segment missing , or it picks up isolated points which do not correspond to subject material . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , the report only picks up obvious defects . |
| 17 | Chris picks up these things from school |
| 18 | The system picks up these sorts of problems straightaway . ’ |
| 19 | The sea breeze blows in Enfant-Béate and turns the tropical heat to balm of an evening , it stirs the jade-like waxy foliage above the elephantine trunk and picks up these entreaties made by islanders who come here with their offerings : the tack or nail , made of tin or brass or iron or copper , supplied by the goods store at sharp expense , one of the manufactures that are sent from the mother country in return for sugar . |
| 20 | The head picks up some papers . |
| 21 | It seems that every time Robin sets sail in his venerable old craft he picks up some award or other . |
| 22 | picks up some medicine . |
| 23 | For example , if the accused was reconnoitring a home preparatory to burglary , he may not be guilty of this offence if he picks up some ladders which he has found in the garden . |
| 24 | The wind picks up some snow , or it is snowing gently , as I snow hook the dogs to sort her out . |
| 25 | Come on away from the foxes , picks up any bits the foxes have left and then he get 's an upset stomach and that 's another thirty pounds at the vet . |
| 26 | He picks up any woman of the town . |
| 27 | The Egyptian vulture , finding a clutch of ostrich eggs , picks up sizeable stones in its beak and with a nod of its head , tosses them in the general direction of the nest . |
| 28 | And er to avoid a collision and in fact I think they did strike but I 'm not really sure , but to avoid a collision this one then goes over the other side of the road , picks up this Ford Orion coming the over way , rolls it over the bank , and it goes underneath the tractive unit of the artic . |
| 29 | Well it it perhaps picks up this point |
| 30 | The notion of the id , in the later theory , picks up this set of assumptions , and stresses their universality in all humans , and their impersonality . |