Example sentences of "pick [adv prt] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rob Wainwright , who could well have picked up another four caps this season , has recovered from an Achilles tendon operation and hopes to turn out for the home XV , while David Hunter is at full-back for Selkirk . |
| 2 | Obviously he assumed that she had picked up some instant Romeo , and it was clear from his tone and expression that he condemned her as cheap and shallow . |
| 3 | Also , he had picked up some rare Charles Trenet and Johnny Halliday musichips . |
| 4 | When they returned with cameramen , the advance production team had picked up some local teenagers for the film . |
| 5 | She has picked up some driving tricks from the SAS . |
| 6 | ‘ Have your sensors picked up any similar surges in other areas recently ? ’ |
| 7 | If you have n't picked up these two handbooks that are on the table outside , can you do so some time today , okay ? |
| 8 | Clearly there 's no systematic structure in those residuals , right , if the residuals were moving in a cyclical manner erm that would imply that we are missing an important explanatory variable in our model and its systematic effect has been just thrown into the error term and as a result we are picking up that systematic effect in , in residuals . |
| 9 | And probably picking up another hundred pound hundred and twenty pound between them a week . |
| 10 | Ignore Higher Meadow on your left , then ignore right turn , soon picking up another enclosed path to reach road where turn right to car park . |
| 11 | If you are attending a meeting , arrive in good time , plan to have a clear view of the speaker , being reasonably close to him with hearing-aid volume low rather than being more distant with the volume at a higher level , picking up more unwanted noise . |
| 12 | I have gone round England like a magpie picking up any bright thing that pleased me . |
| 13 | So that few minutes at the end is important for picking up these extra marks you 've been trying to throw away , okay , where you can do it , and the few minutes at the beginning is to look through and find that question wherever it was , that one on the last page . |
| 14 | And in picking up these old connections it helps greatly that Greece now belongs to the European Community . |
| 15 | We 've been picking up some bad vibes on that guy . |
| 16 | Every day I need to get up at seven o'clock in order to get ready in time to catch the bus for school but because the bus has to pick up many other pupils the journey to school every day takes thirty minutes ( it can take up to one hour for other people ) . |
| 17 | Erratic Burscough held off the challenge of in-form Clitheroe to pick up all three points . |
| 18 | This causes the contestant to try and get even closer to the opponent 's face with subsequent jabs , in order to pick up that elusive score . |
| 19 | But she 's happiest working for TV and is a frontrunner to pick up another British Academy award next year . |
| 20 | If a fish was receptive enough to electricity to pick up any tiny currents induced in its body , they would provide an additional guide to the Earth 's magnetic field . |
| 21 | Right , what we 're now going to do is incorporate that dummy variable as the regressor in our model as an explanatory variable , so what 's going to happen is that that dummy variable is turned off , alright in the first part of the sample right up until the war that dummy variable 's going to be off , right so it has a value of zero , right , then in nineteen forty through to nineteen forty five it 's switched on and what it 's going to do is to pick up any differential effects , right , in the intercept between wartime and peacetime right , we 'll talk a little bit more , more about that in a second , we 're going to add it in as a regressor , right , because it only comes on during the wartime it will pick up any shift in the intercept , right , that occurs due to the war if there is one , of course there may not be but it 's quite likely that there , there may well be , so if you type Q to come out of the data processing environment , go back to the action menu and test estimate forecast okay at the dialog box just add D one to your list of explanatory variables , alright then press the end key , right , yeah we 're gon na use the full sample right , we gon na use O L S , right you have now estimated the model with this dummy variable now just to see what 's happened to those coefficients the er incoming elasticity was at nought point six is now doubled right to one point one four more importantly , right , its T ratio has jumped from one point eight five right to six point eight , as a result , we now say that the incoming elasticity , the income coefficients , right , the significant zero , it 's important to explain the textiles as such the er , we are now getting a very different estimate for our |
| 22 | A strange object or sound will result in the ears being fully pricked in the direction of the stimulus , in order to pick up any relevant sounds . |
| 23 | That gives you time to get your head together , to pick up any appropriate notes that you may want , it may mean you want to actually consult somebody else . |
| 24 | The language supervisor ( ideally the author of the pedagogical grammar ) should later scrutinize these tests , to pick up any particular difficulties that the student may be having . |
| 25 | Apart from the Harris 's hawks , we did n't get a chance to pick up any more birds until late on the second day . |
| 26 | Police are expecting to pick up more new leads later this year as forces throughout the country join a national fingerprint computer system , which will enable them to check unidentified prints from Pinky 's . |
| 27 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 28 | Martin Pipe 's charge should be good enough to pick up this decent prize . |
| 29 | ‘ Wonder who they 'll choose ? ’ asked Percy , secretly glad to pick up this olive branch . |
| 30 | But we do know enough to be able to pick out some clear changes , and continuities too , by tracing particular themes . |