Example sentences of "be picking [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must want my head tested sorting mail all day when I could be picking up wads of it on the lorries . ’ |
| 2 | Also Mackie would be coming with us and we 'd be picking up Fiona . |
| 3 | This time he seems to be picking up the signals of some approaching hostility towards him . |
| 4 | FOUR RAILWAYMEN have plumped for a ‘ busmen 's holiday ’ this autumn … by organising a charity rail tour to delightful Poole in Dorset which will be picking up at Wigan North Western . |
| 5 | ‘ You wo n't be paying for inappropriate placements and you wo n't be picking up the bill for carers later . |
| 6 | You should be picking up more ! " |
| 7 | ( 6 ) Hilton Mining ( Harvard OTC ) " Between ourselves , somebody may be picking up a huge stake in this company . |
| 8 | It is possible , of course , to imagine that the first of these sentences describes one event and the second describes another , quite unrelated , event ( so the person identified as ‘ a mother ’ may be picking up a chair in the course of cleaning a room ) . |
| 9 | Ninety per cent of people in residential care in Newcastle are on income support and the average time to death or discharge in residential care is three years , so his department will be picking up the whole burden by the third year . |
| 10 | They should be picking up other clues about each other too : the accents they speak with , the way they are dressed , the kind of hairstyles they have all tell us something about people we meet . |
| 11 | ( a ) You are overlooking visual clues which your students may be picking up . |
| 12 | We should n't be picking up the tab . |
| 13 | He 's the last person you 'd be thinking you 'd be picking up . |
| 14 | I can see that you 'll soon be picking up the reins . |
| 15 | In the next few days you will be briefed by your managers who will be picking up issues specific to your particular part of the organisation and who will act as feedback channels for your questions and concerns . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Owen , ‘ I think it will soon be picking up momentum . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You could be picking up where he left off . |
| 18 | Furthermore , they suggest that some researchers who have reported correlations between emotional support and health in the absence of life events might in fact be picking up a correlation between chronic strain and support . |
| 19 | I 've noted there that , that if you were to bid for funds that had tapering attaching to them , and therefore you would be picking up increased costs in ninety five , six , and ninety six , seven , that they would n't exceed the figure shown at the bottom of the page . |
| 20 | About this time of year she 'd have expected business to be picking up , but instead it remains ominously quiet . |
| 21 | Whatever the critics say it seems a lot of people will be picking up a copy just to see what might have happened to the De Winters . |
| 22 | What you 'll find , you 'll find in here that it 'll just be picking up the budgies mainly . |
| 23 | I mean how good 's it gon na be picking up , is it gon na get all these background noises in ? |
| 24 | Well there are problems in the sense that we 've got to do it , in terms of management of the County Council , the control of the capital programme , no I do n't think so , because if , if there was no control on it , you would n't now be picking up and saying ‘ hey we 've got to do something about it ’ . |
| 25 | erm But they 've got themselves together again and we seem to be picking up . |
| 26 | ca n't we , why ca n't we be picking out guiding , guidance as far everything |