Example sentences of "[vb mod] be picked [adv prt] in the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Crumbs of advantage , Bénezet had found , may be picked up in the most unexpected places .
4 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 .
5 But right now Eurotunnel shares can be picked up in the market at around £3.60 .
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