Example sentences of "[vb base] pick [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Anyone want to pick up the ball and run with it and would question whether it is considered necessary and does it give you sufficient guidance at strategic level ? |
| 2 | I remember picking up the film and making my way back to Derek 's , although even now the memory 's a little hazy , and then I started to feel light-headed and dizzy . |
| 3 | The staff will stay on until the parents arrive to pick up the children . |
| 4 | ‘ The African guide was nowhere to be seen so Slash picked up the guy 's rifle and began firing into the air , trying desperately to scare the elephants away , ’ said another friend of the star . |
| 5 | To the accompaniment of one of Alan Dell 's Big Band programmes Patrick told Peter Jennings about the murder and the theft of the letters , the switched bodies and his decision to come out to Romania and try to pick up the scent of John and Angela Bonnard . |
| 6 | Try to pick out the sense of what I am saying For instance , it so happens that my grandson , Henry now works in the Marconi laboratory . |
| 7 | Camcorder microphones are contrary devices : sometimes they fail to pick up the sounds that they should , and sometimes they hear things that they should n't . |
| 8 | Two things spring to mind as and friends start to pick up the pieces and reorientate themselves . |
| 9 | Even if BAT do pick up the bill , as they have for East Belfast Community Council and the Centre for Neighbourhood Development , they can offer only 2 to 3 years project funding or finance for capital projects . |
| 10 | Actually they 've picked up the pace Forest since the goal erm do n't this Leicester are playing anywhere near as well as they were at the time they scored . |
| 11 | I believe many people increasingly want their news when it is convenient for them — when they get in from work , when they 've picked up the children from school , when they take a break from their work , or finish a meeting , when they arrive in a hotel . |
| 12 | I believe many people increasingly want their news when it is convenient for them — when they get in from work , when they 've picked up the children from school , when they take a break from their work , or finish a meeting , when they arrive at a hotel . |
| 13 | THE new pack leader , Gareth Llewellyn , yesterday sounded a call to arms as a reshaped Wales prepare to pick up the pieces against France in Paris tomorrow . |
| 14 | He enjoyed the salmon trout he ate at the small inn there but was mighty scathing about the visitors ' book ( as well as about the notion that the lake might actually be beautiful ) : ‘ You will see only two kinds of exclamations in it : one about the beauty of the Lac de Gaube , the other about how good the trout are … which means that only fools or gluttons have picked up the pen to sign their names and their thoughts . ’ |
| 15 | This season of exhibitions promises a unique and long awaited opportunity to address , at first hand , the current concerns and practices of the women artists who have picked up the gauntlet of the conventional ‘ feminism versus modernism ’ polarisation . |
| 16 | STOCKBROKERS have picked up the airline habit : flying merrily on heedless of a leakage of cash . |
| 17 | If you want any more details at all , you just need to pick up the phone and call us here at the Trent F M Careline on |
| 18 | Obviously then we need to pick up the appraisal system , and I think what I 'll have to do with that , is as the targets kep co start coming in , erm we 'll have to set up some sort of system , preferably I suspect computerized . |
| 19 | If any of my staff or myself can be of help with a future motoring need , you only have to pick up the phone or call in and see us and we will ensure your total satisfaction . |
| 20 | Loathing the expressionism and abstractions that surround him during his time at Newcastle , where he studied in the late Sixties , he believes ‘ you have to pick up the traces . |
| 21 | The students have to pick up the threads of the conversation , to make sense of it , and to make a contribution — if they wish — in their own way . |
| 22 | It is we , after all , who have to pick up the pieces and begin again the struggle to live our lives with dignity , and in freedom from arbitrary and authoritarian policing . |
| 23 | So we have to pick up the pieces on this one . ’ |
| 24 | As proved by history , women are the ones who have to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of war . |
| 25 | Now the players have to pick up the pieces . ’ |
| 26 | A particular type of credit and money-management education is that needed for the people who unfortunately have to pick up the pieces when consumers get into difficulties over credit use : consumer and community advisers , citizens ' advice bureaux staff , social workers , even probation officers . |
| 27 | The R S P C A have to pick up the pieces and they 've launched a campaign to try and stop it and joining me now is Alan . |
| 28 | The military and large corporations control Congress and the president while the American people have to pick up the tax bill to finance it all . |