Example sentences of "[pers pn] pick up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , I pick up the clock on it and I see it is half-past six . |
| 2 | I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen . |
| 3 | In the front seat by Des I fiddle with my receiver till I pick up the signal from the mike in his pocket . |
| 4 | You can feel the brake and then you pick up the feel of the tyre and it starts moving a little bit . |
| 5 | You pick up the cake of soap and leave as quietly as you entered . ’ |
| 6 | But we pick up the hotel at |
| 7 | We pick up the story with Cain plotting fiendishly against his brother . |
| 8 | If we pick up the leg of a horse that is not used to it , it may tolerate it for a second or two , and then snatch it back from us . |
| 9 | Now we pay we pick up the tab at the Grand Hotel for those three days in-house . |
| 10 | We pick up the debate at the point where Hall suggests Liverpool boss Graeme Souness was under too much pressure to make rational decisions . |
| 11 | We pick up the plane for Punta Arenas at Arica , just across the Chilean border . ’ |
| 12 | and the they pick up the text in that way . |
| 13 | And they pick up the tunes of the language . |
| 14 | They sometimes fancy they pick up the voices of the past , answering their prayers , and after presenting their gifts of flowers and fruit , they come away filled with hope that the great loas have agreed to grant whatever they were being implored to do . |