Example sentences of "[verb] to pick up a [adj] [noun sg] " 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 pretended to pick up a dropped paper napkin . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I am going round London in 80 days , ’ I say , ‘ and intend to pick up a local bus at Heathrow ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The one big difference is that you wo n't have to pick up a free ticket at the exhibition prior to the race . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Not the sort of place you 'd go to pick up a new ribbon ? ’ |
| 10 | Bruce Springsteen managed to pick up a new house for £2 million less than the asking price . |
| 11 | At the moment it seems that Labour is poised to pick up a good swathe of its targets — but not , yet , quite enough of them to put Mr Kinnock safely into Downing Street . |
| 12 | Jack Walker and his brother Fred also managed to pick up a British record of £330 million for the sale of their stockholding business to British Steel last year . |