Example sentences of "[noun sg] pick [adv prt] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though still it has all the marks of makeshift industrialisation and decline , with municipalism picking up the pieces , building endless estates of council houses . |
| 2 | The minibus picks up the Inspirals party outside the hotel in Japantown , San Francisco at 10.30 the next morning , a Sunday . |
| 3 | Newsround picks out the highlights . |
| 4 | It was so well known now , yet it still thrilled her as she saw the way the dim light picked out the shadows of his cheekbones , the sharp angle of his jaw . |
| 5 | Vacuum cleaner ( linked to one — a bun ) : There is nothing particularly unusual about using a vacuum cleaner to pick up the crumbs of a bun so I decided to picture a bun decorated with a vacuum cleaner on top . |
| 6 | Gedge was anxious to save money and went down to London on a coach to pick up the singles . |
| 7 | The sun picks out the muscles in his back . |
| 8 | The sun picked up the colours of a girl 's dress . |
| 9 | She nursed his ailments too , and with a needle from a certain yucca picked out the chigoes from his feet , neatly , so as not to burst the sac in which the nits were hatching and release them into his flesh : the insects between his pink and white toes were just like a shrimp 's roe . |
| 10 | ‘ Nibs McGovern met that train every day with his trolley to pick up the papers and the Boland loaves that the shops got for special customers . |
| 11 | Fabia felt a nibble of excitement get to her as she ran a comb through her long golden hair , and even found that there were traces of a smile picking up the corners of her mouth . |
| 12 | Panic set in on the twelfth day when , after ‘ lifting ’ milk , a lorry picking up the churns stopped , the driver beckoning Harry . |
| 13 | ‘ It comes every day to pick up the bodies . ’ |
| 14 | If the person picks up the keys , then he or she can become the next sleeping beauty . |
| 15 | The sentry picked up the tags , stared at the photos and at our faces . |
| 16 | The sharp white lights of the television crew picked out the shards of the Worm , blowing about at the bottom of the pit until they became transparent and brittle , breaking into thousands of tiny pieces . |
| 17 | My life fell apart , but he had no trouble picking up the pieces and forged ahead with a new woman . |
| 18 | Public subsidy may therefore be desirable , but the public commitment to pick up the bills requires public monitoring to ensure that the monopolist continues to minimize costs and produce efficiently . |
| 19 | The children in turn pick up the corks in their mouths and dip them into the paint . |
| 20 | After a couple of hours , the researchers showed each personality the lists , plus a randomly mixed list , and asked the subject to pick out the words he or she recognised . |
| 21 | Lisa settled down with the bulldog clip that held the current day 's orders , and Folly picked up the accounts book . |
| 22 | As he did so , the older man picked up the glasses which had been filled previously , and deliberately poured them over her head . |
| 23 | The assumption was that the police had been given enough information to pick up the terrorists quickly . |
| 24 | Hong Kong Special Report : After the traumas , the colony picks up the pieces |
| 25 | I have been listening in to the E-Mail for some weeks , and in fact even coming in on weekend to pick up the results and comments . |
| 26 | Saturday morning , and once again a fair and breezy day , so fair that I decided to give myself a holiday from writing , and go straight after breakfast to pick up the supplies I would need for the weekend . |
| 27 | When his coolie picked up the shafts and broke into his loping stride , Joseph found he could n't look at the narrow , sweat-streaked shoulders bobbing in front of him without seeing the bleeding welts caused by the French colon 's cane . |
| 28 | Staff and councillors at the town hall have praised the generous efforts of the milkmen who will inevitably have to spend extra time picking up the gifts . |
| 29 | I had to strain over the table to pick up the words . |
| 30 | Expecting a word processor operator to pick up the elements of design , typography and layout skills by simply going on a two-day course is just not realistic . |