Example sentences of "[noun sg] to pick [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In IBM 's method , the electrode tip moves up and down in a bid to pick up a constant current . |
| 2 | In this multi-channelled world , Mr Myhrvold argues , the challenge will be not just to supply information but to make it easy for the user to pick out the specific bits he wants . |
| 3 | Then it was possible for the expert to pick out a glazed tile , though only if it had sunk at the correct angle to the river bed . |
| 4 | He bought groceries to last him the week , then popped next door to the frame shop to pick up the stainless steel frame he 'd ordered for a James Barker black and white print he 'd obtained in an auction some weeks before . |
| 5 | I never understood why we got in the tangled bureaucratic mess of the community charge to pick up the tiny amount of 3 million out of 42.5 million people . |
| 6 | SMALL investors could use any spare cash to pick up a few holdings in carefully chosen smaller companies . |
| 7 | But the red bitch chose that same day to pick up the remaining puppy in her teeth and carry it by the scruff of the neck up the ladder and into the house . |
| 8 | That afternoon , while the same wind , now freshened , still blew across the island and off into the North Sea , Esmerelda and I went out as usual , and stopped off at the shed to pick up the dismantled kite . |
| 9 | David , aged nine , empties our bin in the yard to pick out the salvageable items before he crams the rest into a sack to take to the dump . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Yanto realised he might well have to make a special journey to pick up the old man if Julie happened to be out . |
| 12 | After a year or two I was nipping out at lunchtime to pick up a new skirt for the office party , calling at the dry cleaners , handing in the photos to be developed and meeting friends for lunch with the best of them . |
| 13 | For such patients we have adopted a policy of exercise testing on the one hand to convince them that they can often do a lot more than they feel like doing , and on the other hand to pick up the occasional patient who has severe residual ischaemia but is not declaring it . |
| 14 | We caught him as he was on his way to pick up a faulty music amplifier he was getting fixed . |
| 15 | The rod , in order to pick up a long length of sunken line , should be a minimum of 11ft long , and a maximum of 12ft or it becomes unwieldy . |
| 16 | There 's no music policy beyond the basic house/garage starting point , but Sasha , taking over at about 5am , continues a mission to pick out the beautiful kick and rush in techno and its derivatives . |
| 17 | I sympathized and threw in a few choice obscenities and ‘ hanging 's too good for ‘ ems ’ but made a note to pick up a few watches next time I was down the Brick Lane midnight market . |
| 18 | You solve this one by taking the Holiday Inn airport bus , buying a drink there to salve your conscience , and crossing the street to pick up a local bus . |
| 19 | Besides , I had had time to pick up the late edition . |
| 20 | Wheelchair athlete Ian Hayden from Sutton Courtenay near Abingdon overcame an arm injury to pick up a second silver medal at the Paralympic Games in Barcelona . |