Example sentences of "[vb infin] to pick [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We have to look to the future and I am sure that the unitary authorities will not want to pick up the massive debt charges on the castle , ’ he said . |
| 2 | In a good postwar election year , the Conservatives would normally expect to pick up a respectable number of seats in Northern England and to some extent in Scotland . |
| 3 | The one big difference is that you wo n't have to pick up a free ticket at the exhibition prior to the race . |
| 4 | If they do happen to pick up the wrong isomer erm , these isomers by the way , you 'll find things put in front of them like you often find a little d or a little l in front of the name it means dextarosatory rotated to the right and leverosatory |
| 5 | But what I had also noticed was that certain firms for example that w were er th then extant , er they in fact would s er say have a three-piece moved , and you 'd have a huge van would go to pick up a three-piece suite . |
| 6 | ‘ Not the sort of place you 'd go to pick up a new ribbon ? ’ |
| 7 | Barbara looked up as she dragged Jimmy to one side , and saw Duvall stoop to pick up the broken neck of the whisky bottle that she had dropped . |
| 8 | He must have felt it too — how could he not when he was so close ; how could he fail to pick up the reckless drumming of her senses ? |