Example sentences of "[be] picked [adv prt] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once they start to hatch the emerging fry will be picked up in the parent 's mouth and deposited into a pre-dug pit , or under the edge of a rock . |
| 2 | As well as X400 , X25 , Async and Bisync , it is now also offering Odette File Transfer Protocol , enabling dropped sessions to be picked up in the middle of transmission . |
| 3 | TWW , in fact , was a good example of a consortium put together from interests reflecting the shape of the franchise area , which was partly dictated by the fact that the signal for Wales would also be picked up in the West Country . |
| 4 | Such a thing not having happened for many centuries , the idea , even though the smell of cordite had spread across the Channel and could be picked up in the Charing Cross Road , seemed difficult to envisage . |
| 5 | By half-term , a local parent with a child at Cedars had offered to put Balbinder on the coach in the morning and let him stay at her house until he could be picked up in the evening . |
| 6 | Lack of proper planning and provision is likely to be picked up in the review of day care services which local authorities are obliged to conduct every three years ( s19 ) . |
| 7 | As he was wearing only trousers and shoes he knew that he would soon be picked up in the town , so he got away through alleys and into the country . |
| 8 | But right now Eurotunnel shares can be picked up in the market at around £3.60 . |
| 9 | Excessive perspiration in poorly ventilated footwear invites infection which can also be picked up in the changing rooms of public swimming pools or sports centres . |