Example sentences of "[adv] pick up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without another word , Bert Rafferty gently picked up the frightened child and made towards the cliff . |
| 2 | Er now we , the pensioners , had no choice , we were picked up and put into the new scheme having paid our contributions appropriately to the old scheme rules which were the higher contributions , but only to pick up the new scheme rules that were against our interest . |
| 3 | These jelly-filled tubes have electroreceptor cells at their ends , delicate enough to pick up the tiny discharges of the prey 's body . |
| 4 | She took a deep breath , made the effort to be mature enough to pick up the olive branch . |
| 5 | More might have tuned in to hear him but their radio sets were not powerful enough to pick up the German stations broadcasting in English . |
| 6 | My father gently picks up the nearest little one and begins to fit its harness on . |
| 7 | I can only pick up the linguistic crumbs . |
| 8 | Actually , plants are not the only creatures that can be better judges of character than many humans , for stories abound of dogs , horses and other creatures instinctively picking up the unpleasant and threatening vibrations from some human and responding with a personally directed snarl or with a well-aimed kick or bite . |
| 9 | But for her insistence on being free for Dickie 's holidays she could have had a ward sister 's job in Benedict 's by just picking up the nearest telephone . |
| 10 | So at least the first two cells are still picking up the right two numbers , because we used the range names , we 've inserted a row on the other file , but er , we 're still about range names found where those cells are . |
| 11 | He calmly picked up the fallen keys , climbed into the car and drove away , leaving the widow staring at her dead husband . |
| 12 | Paul also picked up the monthly prize for February when other winners were Peter Daly ( South Home Counties ) , Bob Bray ( Midlands and South West England ) , Alastair Valentine ( East Scotland ) , Paul Melvin ( Glasgow ) and Marjory Simpson ( North Scotland ) . |
| 13 | Now pick up the important ones , sort out your priorities . |
| 14 | Alternatively pick up the Old Town Walk Guide from the Tourist Information Walk . |
| 15 | And unless the city knows that it 's hopeless , they might simply pick up the whole war again . |
| 16 | Then pick up the next two stitches and put them on needles 1 and 2 ( one already on needle 1 ) . |
| 17 | He exchanged a polite smile with the secretary after Karen had left , then picked up the only magazine on the coffee table and leafed through it , his interest not overly stimulated by a computer programming manual written in German . |
| 18 | as if to prove it , our green-fingered experts have again picked up the top prizes in Aberdeen district council 's gardening competition . |
| 19 | I crossed the hall and had actually picked up the offending item before realizing its full implication ; my father , I recalled , had been brushing the entrance hall a half-hour or so earlier . |
| 20 | And it 's carried over our list , so we 've actually picked up the seven two O five now as single source . |