Example sentences of "[noun sg] pick [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no sign of any devastation or a struggle , except where the pool of light picked out the broken , gutted cat . |
| 2 | The first watcher picked up the red phone nearby and punched out three digits . |
| 3 | In this multi-channelled world , Mr Myhrvold argues , the challenge will be not just to supply information but to make it easy for the user to pick out the specific bits he wants . |
| 4 | Then the Judge picked up the stiff body of the student in his arms . |
| 5 | He bought groceries to last him the week , then popped next door to the frame shop to pick up the stainless steel frame he 'd ordered for a James Barker black and white print he 'd obtained in an auction some weeks before . |
| 6 | I never understood why we got in the tangled bureaucratic mess of the community charge to pick up the tiny amount of 3 million out of 42.5 million people . |
| 7 | The microphone picks up the surrounding sounds and feeds them to the amplifier . |
| 8 | The embroidery-edged bed linen picks up the delicate decoration as does the appliqué bedcover , while the plain brown walls add warmth and lend a strong contrast . |
| 9 | But the red bitch chose that same day to pick up the remaining puppy in her teeth and carry it by the scruff of the neck up the ladder and into the house . |
| 10 | That afternoon , while the same wind , now freshened , still blew across the island and off into the North Sea , Esmerelda and I went out as usual , and stopped off at the shed to pick up the dismantled kite . |
| 11 | His child-heart picking up the tribal beam , |
| 12 | The choice theory picks up the libertarian strand , which insists that all state power must be legitimated by consent , whereas the ‘ harm to interests ’ theory taps the slender source of Millian liberalism to defend a broadening of the scope of contractual obligations . |
| 13 | The rod-bending bites are merely the start of a run , and it is this first powerful run , which began as soon as the barbel picked up the baited hook and gained momentum within seconds , that is the crucial time for losing fish . |
| 14 | The Captain picked up the external phone . |
| 15 | David , aged nine , empties our bin in the yard to pick out the salvageable items before he crams the rest into a sack to take to the dump . |
| 16 | Between about 1947 and 1951 , when the Ritz in Sheffield , Alabama was still open , my main encounters with the place — between the ages of four and eight — were on trips with my father across the river to pick up the final reports on the daily receipts on all four of the Rosenbaum theatres our family owned in Sheffield and Tuscumbia . |
| 17 | Yanto realised he might well have to make a special journey to pick up the old man if Julie happened to be out . |
| 18 | Picked up the pace picked up the square ball here and attacked he went went like a bomb . |
| 19 | The man picked up the fallen envelope , took the lift to the eighth floor , let himself into his apartment and slit open the envelope . |
| 20 | The full ten marks were awarded to Peter Talbot 's The First Ironbridge ’ , a fine view of the bridge with good lighting picking out the structural detail . |
| 21 | For such patients we have adopted a policy of exercise testing on the one hand to convince them that they can often do a lot more than they feel like doing , and on the other hand to pick up the occasional patient who has severe residual ischaemia but is not declaring it . |
| 22 | There was not much point in working harder or taking risks if the taxman picked up the main benefit of one 's success . |
| 23 | Yet he and his companions were creeping towards the stockade 's turret , where one of the guns exploded , when they were spotted ; one shot picked out the young man next to Dulé . |
| 24 | There 's no music policy beyond the basic house/garage starting point , but Sasha , taking over at about 5am , continues a mission to pick out the beautiful kick and rush in techno and its derivatives . |
| 25 | erm we decided from the start that erm the mums who have their kids in the creche should make some contribution towards the costs ; we 're providing them with a benefit erm but the company picks up the major part of the bill erm but in terms of the output from the additional sewing machinists that we 've got , it 's very , very cost-effective , yes . |
| 26 | From the buffet we could see the restaurant where a ten-piece dance band was playing ‘ Mambo italiano ’ and about thirty couples danced various improvisations on the Western dances according to whether they came from Leningrad , peking , or East Berlin , where the TV picks up the Western stations . |
| 27 | Her dark-brown skin picked up the deadening light inside the train and reflected it strangely so that her face looked almost silver . |
| 28 | JUSTIN FARTHING wasted no time picking up the winning thread following his disappointment at Aintree with the Martell Fox Hunters ' favourite , Rushing Wild . |
| 29 | When you and I were in our slit trenches sheltering from the shit that 's flying about , these two here were running around the orchard picking up the dead and wounded . ’ |
| 30 | Besides , I had had time to pick up the late edition . |