Example sentences of "[being] pick [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some Sutton pupils expressed worries about being picked on by the ‘ bigger ones ’ and were concerned about going into the same playground . |
| 2 | Sometimes we went to the Cours Mirabeau and watched the debris from the daily market being picked over by the local dogs . |
| 3 | David Ormerod , a geology lecturer at the Open University , has been held in Oradea , Romania , for the past three days , after being picked up at the main crossing point into Hungary . |
| 4 | Of the 34 recurrent duodenal ulcers detected , 23 ( 68% ) occurred in patients taking placebo , most recurrences being picked up at the scheduled 4 , 8 , and 12 month endoscopies ( 15/23 placebo , 7/11 cisapride ) . |
| 5 | With so many cables fairly close together it is easy to see why the side stitches remain as loops instead of being picked up with the latch tool at the sides of the cables . |
| 6 | You could follow my example and hitchhike out of Miami airport , but only if you 're prepared to risk being picked up by a religious maniac , or dropped off in an impenetrable jungle of freeways close to the cocaine-dealing centre of America , or both . |
| 7 | As an alternative , radio versions are now available at economic prices ; these allow virtually unrestricted movement to the wearer , the signals being picked up by a special receiver which passes them on to the camcorder via a short cable connection . |
| 8 | Expedition organisers confirmed the two men had arrived safely at the Patriot Hills base on the Chilean side of the Antarctic after being picked up by a rescue plane . |
| 9 | Oh he might be away for thre , cos I know he had golf at the Belfry this week , and then when he comes back he 's being picked up by a car to take him to the Belfry again , cos we 're entertaining there for a weekend 's golf . |
| 10 | Four more S.79s were sent out from Sicily to search for it but one ran out of fuel and had to ditch , the crew being picked up by an Italian hospital ship . |
| 11 | This explanation of urban poverty in terms of ‘ perverse incentives ’ is being picked up by the right wing in Britain and used as the basis for proposals for new policies and regulations regarding unemployment benefit , income support , and housing entitlement as they apply to lone mothers . |
| 12 | Now she sees many of the ideas being picked up by the commercial companies with which she had dealings because they believe it brings new talent into the industry . |
| 13 | Video 8 , with its inability to dub audio separately , inserts both new pictures and sound , the latter being whatever was being picked up by the camcorder 's microphone while the title was being recorded — unless you have arranged for some other sound to be fed onto the tape ! |
| 14 | By 1929 the drift towards a new cinema as being picked up by the critics , who eagerly pointed out both what they liked in the new films and what they thought would be well received by audiences . |
| 15 | Up in the gallery a careful watch is being kept on sound levels to ensure the noise from the fan is drowned out by the radiophonic wind effect now carrying through the studio 's talkback system and being picked up by the microphones . |
| 16 | were they being transmit , they were n't being picked up from the U S A were they ? |
| 17 | erm I I think that being able to acknowledge for themselves — the adults — for them to be able to acknowledge to themselves that this is a very stressful time , that erm that children may be needing that extra bit of sensitivity erm in terms of how we respond to their behaviour , which may be very erm connected with the general level excitement and and stress that I think we as adults are feeling , and certainly that are being picked up from the media . |
| 18 | We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place |
| 19 | Similarly , importing a bitmapped graphic in any of the variety of formats DW1.2 supports gives the opportunity to use the very simple tracing tool to trace only selected shapes and pick them out of the bitmap — the second screenshot shows the Windows 3.1 window being picked out of the 3.1 opening logo screen . |