Example sentences of "[vb infin] pick up [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you want do you want to come back Mr Williams do you want to pick up this point or something else ? |
| 2 | One of the boys bangs the seat right behind my head urgently , and indicates that I should stop to pick up another couple of young warriors . |
| 3 | Only , I think , in so far as I 've seen so many pictures over the years that I must have picked up some knowledge and a sort of an overview of what there is in English art , so that I can make better comparisons . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , and on the way , ’ she added quickly , ‘ do n't forget to pick up that bowl of cawl , all right ? ’ |
| 6 | You are the most ill-mannered , arrogant man it has ever been my misfortune to meet and if you think that I am going to obediently trot over there and start picking up that rubbish now … ’ |