Example sentences of "to pick up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had hoped that I might be able to find you some accommodation around here , but apparently it 's the duty of your local council in London to rehouse you and nobody else wants to pick up the bill . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is we , after all , who have to pick up the pieces and begin again the struggle to live our lives with dignity , and in freedom from arbitrary and authoritarian policing . |
| 6 | The contractors are rightly concerned that they should not be forced to pick up the bill for problems which are not of their making . |
| 7 | It is impossible to guarantee that anyone you invited will turn up , so you could try to guard against wasting your time and money by sending courtesy cars to pick up the more important people . |
| 8 | Finally , this decision amounts to the choice of whether to pick up the artist 's annual option . |
| 9 | Between about 1947 and 1951 , when the Ritz in Sheffield , Alabama was still open , my main encounters with the place — between the ages of four and eight — were on trips with my father across the river to pick up the final reports on the daily receipts on all four of the Rosenbaum theatres our family owned in Sheffield and Tuscumbia . |
| 10 | ‘ Nibs McGovern met that train every day with his trolley to pick up the papers and the Boland loaves that the shops got for special customers . |
| 11 | The study walls are a rich red to pick up the burgundy of the tapestry curtains . |
| 12 | The assumption was that the police had been given enough information to pick up the terrorists quickly . |
| 13 | Although he was no relation to Charles , his surname had inspired him to pick up the pen . |
| 14 | Dot in the conservatory watched as Loopy Lil slowly tried to pick up the unsteady tray of china . |
| 15 | Scientific examination can be used to assess the extent of repairs or new work , and to pick up the joins and fillers used to disguise them . |
| 16 | Harvey the conformist was the first of the five remaining customers to pick up the outsize gesture . |
| 17 | Just as I was about to pick up the pieces of card once more , I stopped transfixed . |
| 18 | I pinned it to the corkboard with a red drawing pin and a light heart , and went upstairs again to change back into jodhpur boots to deal with the terrain and to pick up the map and the compass in case I could n't find the trail . |
| 19 | She moved her torso without breaking the union , and stretched her arm to pick up the phone . |
| 20 | Describing in today 's Sunday Times of Johannesburg how he found Stompie 's body in Mrs Mandela 's house , Morgan said : ‘ One morning I got to the house early and I was told by Winnie to pick up the dog and dump him . |
| 21 | It was Mellor , as junior Home Office Minister , who was left by Mrs Thatcher to pick up the pieces when the last government went badly over the top in its determination to reshape television by deregulation , irrespective of quality . |
| 22 | Whoever was skippering the patrol boat had n't waited to pick up the tender . |
| 23 | They told the inquiry that if a particularly strong FM transmission was made very near the radio it might be possible for it to pick up the sub-harmonic at around 14 MHz but that such a signal could not have emanated from a low-powered , hand-held type of two-way radio . |
| 24 | ‘ Of course , ’ his wife answered , starting to pick up the dirty dishes . |
| 25 | A neighbouring school may decide to cut back on special needs provision or transport to the swimming baths or some other expensive provision and an influx of recruits from that school may be looking to you to pick up the bills . |
| 26 | So we have to pick up the pieces on this one . ’ |
| 27 | The bank had arranged for a four-wheeler to pick up the messenger , round the back of the building . |
| 28 | ‘ Someone always has to pick up the bill . ’ |
| 29 | Ludens hastened to pick up the jacket and helped Marcus into it . |
| 30 | She went through into the boudoir and began to pick up the bedclothes . |