Example sentences of "picked [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | David was always getting picked on at school ! |
| 2 | Some pests are large enough to be gathered and destroyed by hand : caterpillars can be picked off at any time , while slugs and snails around vulnerable plants are easily collected by torchlight on moist evenings . |
| 3 | David Ormerod , a geology lecturer at the Open University , has been held in Oradea , Romania , for the past three days , after being picked up at the main crossing point into Hungary . |
| 4 | This kind of treatment caused resentment among the petty-minded officialdom which ran the British professional game , and when Boomer was chosen for the 1927 Ryder Cup team he was picked up at Cherbourg en route to America and made to wear what every Frenchman was supposed to wear — a beret . |
| 5 | On the other hand , there are philistines who apparently believe that all new ideas , no matter how subtle , can be conveyed in the terms they happened to have picked up at their mother 's knee , and reject any attempt to expand the language into areas beyond the nursery . |
| 6 | I sent her a brochure I had picked up at a travel agent , together with a bouquet of roses and a letter . |
| 7 | WELL , WHEN I OFFERED SIR WILFRED MY RESIGNATION , THE OLD BUGGER GAVE ME A SECOND-HAND YACHT HE 'D PICKED UP AT AN AUCTION … |
| 8 | With a microphone on a long lead plugged in , the on-board mike is automatically disconnected and the sound can then be picked up at much closer range . |
| 9 | ‘ I was thinking I 'm going to be picked up at JFK and they 'll be expecting a black feminist and they 'll realise they 've got the wrong author . ’ |
| 10 | After taking a series of measurements I put a numbered ring on each bird 's leg so that if one came to grief and was picked up at some time in the future , its identity could be established . |
| 11 | ‘ The place is full most o' the time , an' since the trade 's picked up at the docks there 's more carmen comin' in all times o' the day while they 're waitin' in the rank . |
| 12 | The base was picked up at a second-hand store , and the crimson cotton shade came from Habitat . |
| 13 | ( There are also references in the body of the text , some of which are picked up at the end of the chapter . ) |
| 14 | Most of the cost will at first be picked up at the federal level , but the BMFT will gradually reduce its share of financial support over the eight years . |
| 15 | The tag is picked up at the end of a track and the synonym will also , on average , be at or near the end of a track , not in the middle . |
| 16 | Martin Jackson sat among the people waiting by the arrivals gate and read a journal he 'd picked up at the news-stand . |
| 17 | Glancing at his watch , Donaldson saw that it was after five ; seven hours since he 'd been picked up at the courtroom , during which time he 'd skipped lunch and spent his afternoon handing tidbits to a bright primate . |
| 18 | The phone was picked up at the other end and Charles pressed his two p into the coinbox . |
| 19 | He passed me a map and a brochure he had picked up at the hotel . |
| 20 | When the story ran on 3 November , it was picked up at once by the Western media , touching off an international scandal of such embarrassing proportions that president Reagan was forced to act . |
| 21 | One age 's misfortune is another 's good luck and a result of this flight from urban squalor and an exceptionally turbulent working class was that , in the early 20th century , when the new Bristol University was looking to expand , there was a whole chain of classical villas with their attendant small parks all waiting to be picked up at knock-down prices . |
| 22 | If the origin of life were a probable event by ordinary human standards , then a substantial number of planets within radio range should have developed a radio technology long enough ago ( bearing in mind that radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second ) for us to have picked up at least one transmission during the decades that we have been equipped to do so . |
| 23 | — If he got the answers he expected , that Rhoda had kept William Egan 's money in some hiding place and that Roxie had been looking after her brother 's moneybags , and that all three women had been spending what they were supposed to be hoarding , then he knew what was causing the atmosphere he had picked up at Roxie 's house . |
| 24 | Later , much later , he put the book down , and the cuttings which he had picked up at the end of his reading . |
| 25 | Scorecards for the event can be picked up at your golf club and the round can be played any time . |
| 26 | I myself found at the entrance of one of them a small neatly-worked tomahawk , of an inch and a half in length , together with some slips of blue cotton rags , which the birds had doubtless picked up at a deserted encampment of the natives . ’ |
| 27 | Of the 34 recurrent duodenal ulcers detected , 23 ( 68% ) occurred in patients taking placebo , most recurrences being picked up at the scheduled 4 , 8 , and 12 month endoscopies ( 15/23 placebo , 7/11 cisapride ) . |
| 28 | An emissary from London to St Petersburg was picked up at the imperial frontier and a large number of compromising letters fell into the hands of tsarist investigators . |
| 29 | Although astrology takes up most of her time — when she is filming for breakfast television she is picked up at 5am — she likes cooking and reading . |
| 30 | ‘ But my advice is not to panic and to wait and see how many tickets can be picked up at the last minute . ’ |