Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] pick [adv prt] a " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	Perhaps I should try to pick up a little extra at Macready 's tables .
2	I think I must have picked up a virus .
3	For Jackie I 'll try to pick up a paperback book .
4	‘ A week or so after I got back it was still there so I went to a doctor and said I might have picked up a parasite .
5	No I would n't , cos I might have picked up a different thing .
6	The captain showed them a rough map drawn crudely on tough , brown vellum and with a stubby finger and guttural comments pointed out the coastline of Fife , the manor of Kinghorn and the possible place where the French could dock to pick up a party from the beach .
7	Now , erm , yes , I 'd like to pick up a comment made by the Director , erm , he said quite rightly that the prevention factor is really out of the window as far as the budget is concerned , and pro as far as operations are concerned .
8	And , Charles ' mind raced on , Steen could have picked up a new tottie at the Sex of One … party on the Saturday night .
9	And can I tell you , that if we 'd just done Covermaster , somebody could have picked up a point there .
10	If she could have picked up a rock she would have hurled it at his rotten head .
11	Now he 'd have to pick out a tie .
12	‘ Not the sort of place you 'd go to pick up a new ribbon ? ’
13	Er , and I would like to pick up a unit after every half term but around that , you know , somewhere along get them into something really tangible
14	But what I had also noticed was that certain firms for example that w were er th then extant , er they in fact would s er say have a three-piece moved , and you 'd have a huge van would go to pick up a three-piece suite .
15	Still most of them will have picked up a bob or two out of their transfers to Leeds .
16	It can expect to pick up a lot of support both from mainstream Solidarity and from the squabbling peasants ' parties .

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