Example sentences of "[adj] to pick [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One whiff of a piece of clothing and the appropriate commands , and off goes Fido , nose to the ground , casting this way and that to pick up the same scent . |
| 2 | The ideal working dress would , therefore , be one in which you could reach up high to bring down the best china , bend down low to pick up the dropped toy , feel comfortable in for walking around the park and pushing a pram or playing ball , not worry about if baby food was deposited on it , move around in easily with a baby on your hip and cover up totally for rolling out pastry or helping with painting . |
| 3 | On one hand , it is possible to pick out a dominant instance by its relationship with other aspects of a social structure . |
| 4 | It is surprisingly easy to pick up the physical tension and the negative emotions of others if you are at all sensitive . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , it is reasonable to pick out the following headings . |
| 6 | But worse still , if the pilot is able to pick up the dropped wing after the initial swing , because of the acceleration the controls suddenly become effective , and this often results in the other wing touching just as the aircraft becomes airborne . |
| 7 | It was good fortune for BR to be able to pick up the 1938 survivors — only retained into the 1980s to bail out the Northern Line from a vast increase in traffic . |
| 8 | From these results , it would appear that the younger children were not able to pick up the linguistic cues to the deductive/empirical distinction contained in the experimenter 's questions . |
| 9 | Both his sisters kissed him — another first — and Kitty had to have her hand prised out of his before Charlie was able to pick up the brown paper parcel that contained all his worldly goods . |
| 10 | The survey was not able to pick out a definite link between the type of heating and the degree of damp in a home . |
| 11 | But if you are n't prepared to wade through acres of news and advertising print , your financial adviser should be able to pick out a few plans that suit your needs . |
| 12 | Yet a team which is happy to pick up the odd win among the world 's soccer minnows went on to better it against an England side with pretensions to be among the best . |
| 13 | All the theories that we examine have variations and we shall be concerned to pick out the main themes that the different interpretations of these theories have in common . |
| 14 | ‘ I put myself forward not expecting to win , but available to pick up an extra seat if it was there . ’ |
| 15 | They had to ford these hazards , Travis going first to pick out the best route . |
| 16 | Alright , simply because erm , there is , inelastic demand alright , and if there 's a very bad crop throughout the world , prices will suddenly just , just sky-rocket for , for one or two years , so that makes it difficult to pick out an underlying trend because sometimes agricultural prices are very , very high . |
| 17 | About then , word came from Salines , three hours away , to inform Nicholas that the Venetian sugar ship had reached Alexandria and would be leaving soon for Episkopi to pick up the combined Cypriot cargo . |
| 18 | It is therefore necessary to pick up the optical signals , convert them into electrical signals , amplify them using a repeater and re-convert them into optical signals every so often along the way . |