Example sentences of "[vb pp] to pick [adv prt] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , all water authorities spent large sums on routine river maintenance on farmland ; and still more money was spent by the Ministry of Agriculture in contributing between 30 and 70 per cent of the cost of farmers held drainage , designed to pick up the benefits of lowering the water level , a result of river engineering schemes . |
| 2 | A suitable train was scheduled to pick up the wives of the workmen along side their homes . |
| 3 | It 's the time young hounds are trained to pick up the scent of a fox . |
| 4 | Consequently the daughter is left to pick up the pieces of the havoc caused by the strain of raised blood-pressure and general anxiety the next day . |
| 5 | The basic framework of that popular culture was fairly obvious for urban workers not only lived close together in distinctive communities but had also begun to pick up the rudiments of an education and they had both savings and time to spare . |
| 6 | Husband took off his blue-tinted glasses and polished them on a silk handkerchief chosen to pick up the colours of both his suit and his tie . |
| 7 | And the look in her eye says Jill Morrell and John McCarthy have managed to pick up the pieces of their love |