Example sentences of "[verb] to pick [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She walked over to the pond and bent to pick up a small pebble , skimming it across the glittering water , watching the way it bounced , then sank , leaving behind it only ripples . |
| 2 | She looked round the hall , then bent to pick up the broken remains of a photo frame . |
| 3 | She pretended to pick up a dropped paper napkin . |
| 4 | D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles is hotly tipped to pick up the creative account for St Ivel 's Shape and Gold brands , currently handled by J Walter Thompson . |
| 5 | While he was speaking , Emily tried to pick up the incriminating letter and slip it into her bag , but Marcus stopped her . |
| 6 | Dot in the conservatory watched as Loopy Lil slowly tried to pick up the unsteady tray of china . |
| 7 | Thus we may write , where t is a random , serially independent variable designed to pick up the random movements in the risk premium . |
| 8 | The water is viewed by light sensitive detectors designed to pick up the so-called Cherenkov light emitted when electrically-charged particles travel faster than light does through the water . |
| 9 | Yes , well these , all wasps of course , er tend to er hit the fruit juice at this time of the year , and that fruit juice is very often fermenting , and you get a particularly er waspish reaction , er naturally , when er somebody goes to pick up a fallen apple or windfall pear , and they pick up a handful of wasp , inadvertently , and I think this year , particularly with a shortage of water , more wasps of all species have been driven to attack fruit , er and are feeding on the er fruit juice , much of which is fermenting . |
| 10 | ‘ We have to look to the future and I am sure that the unitary authorities will not want to pick up the massive debt charges on the castle , ’ he said . |
| 11 | ‘ I am going round London in 80 days , ’ I say , ‘ and intend to pick up a local bus at Heathrow ’ . |
| 12 | Although the publishers rejected the idea of a joint imprint , they do have to market the books jointly — but in such a way that the public and foreign publishers looking to pick up the foreign rights are not confused . |
| 13 | After she had gone he switched off the gramophone , drained his drink in a single gulp , then stooped to pick up the offending telegraph message . |
| 14 | In the grey morning light , Clare , still in her nightgown , stooped to pick up the little bottle of sleeping pills from the floor . |
| 15 | He stooped to pick up the wrong key , which had been jerked out of the lock and out of her hand when she started away . |
| 16 | In a good postwar election year , the Conservatives would normally expect to pick up a respectable number of seats in Northern England and to some extent in Scotland . |
| 17 | Mr are you going to pick up the first point and then Mr . |
| 18 | Of course , once children give up their single-level assumption , they accept the fact that terms at different levels such as dog and animal or bear and toy may be used to pick out the same object . |
| 19 | Here short-pile fabric is used to pick out the main pattern shapes , providing a relief pattern that highlights the design . |
| 20 | Rovers stand to pick up an extra £25,000 if their former player makes the Great Britain side . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't think that professionalism as such should have a place within the playing side of the Association , ’ states the Dungiven clubman , ‘ We play for pure enjoyment and recreation and if along the way we manage to pick up a few honours , then that 's great . |
| 22 | Another problem which electric fish have circumvented is that very sensitive receptors are needed to pick up the weak signals of other fish , and such receptors would be swamped by the fish 's own field . |
| 23 | His experiments on the nature of lightning were truly pioneering , starting at Marly in France where a dragoon was persuaded to pick up a long brass wire inside a glass bottle which acted as an insulator . |
| 24 | Pepita began to pick up the fallen bananas and place them back in their crate . |
| 25 | Immediately , her expression and pace of approach changed and instead of the lambasting , or worse , she had seemed about to deliver , she gave the child a tolerant smile and began to pick up the scattered cans . |
| 26 | ‘ Of course , ’ his wife answered , starting to pick up the dirty dishes . |
| 27 | The one big difference is that you wo n't have to pick up a free ticket at the exhibition prior to the race . |
| 28 | If they do happen to pick up the wrong isomer erm , these isomers by the way , you 'll find things put in front of them like you often find a little d or a little l in front of the name it means dextarosatory rotated to the right and leverosatory |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ Not the sort of place you 'd go to pick up a new ribbon ? ’ |