Example sentences of "[adv] pick [adv prt] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for the effects of cold . |
| 2 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for cold . |
| 3 | •The letters and telephone calls were so numerous that Curtis Strange feels he owes golf fans an apology for an outburst of profanity , inadvertently picked up by a television microphone during an American event this summer . |
| 4 | The State Department in Washington still must decide what to do with the migrants , apparently picked up by the Panamanian-registered East Wood from an island off China to be smuggled to Hawaii . |
| 5 | As we have already seen , if speech is to be recorded clearly it is best picked up by an extension microphone positioned close to the speaker . |
| 6 | Smith , managed to scramble out and were soon picked up by the destroyer ‘ Foresight ’ . |
| 7 | ( He was later picked up by the Italians and made a prisoner . ) |
| 8 | However , if we do not like being judged by an external tribunal , if we do not like our citizens being interrogated by foreign judges about acts committed in the United Kingdom , if we do not like our Acts of Parliament and our internal administration being scrupulously picked over by a European Commission , if we do not like the relations between the Crown and its possessions being altered over our heads , the remedy is in our own hands . |
| 9 | The new relaxed Downing Street style was instantly picked up by the Cabinet and greatly appreciated . |
| 10 | These slow waves pervade the head to the extent that they are also picked up by the EOG electrodes , just as K complexes are . |
| 11 | This is often picked up by the programmers , who then make the system more secure . ’ |
| 12 | Some were immediately picked up by the demons , whilst others managed again and again to risk their lives before falling to the persistent attacks of the creatures from hell . |
| 13 | It was immediately picked up by the Government , which launched a competition in July 1991 between both yards to become Britain 's sole nuclear yard . |
| 14 | There is no official collection because it is immediately picked over by a series of scavengers — first adults , then children , then dogs and cats . |
| 15 | The flashing light is then picked up by a sensor at the distant end and the information converted first into a corresponding electrical pattern then into sound using an earpiece or loudspeaker . |
| 16 | One of his passengers dropped the Cessna 's dinghy to the JetRanger 's pilot , who was subsequently picked up by an RAF SAR helicopter which took him to hospital in Blackpool suffering from hypothermia . |
| 17 | The various whirrings and whinings which may be emitted by the camcorder itself , not to mention any noises which you make while operating the controls , are liable to be faithfully picked up by the on-board microphone . |
| 18 | A crash-landing on the surface of the sea was carried out , during which the one unwounded member of the crew was injured , but all were safely picked up by the destroyer ‘ Camicia Nere ’ . |