Example sentences of "pick [adv prt] the [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , in addition to that , and I do n't know if this is the source of the confusion , we 've also made provision in the ninety four five budget for another er camera site operation , except that it 's a lower figure because that does n't actually include the camera because we made it clear that as a result of the decision last time here we did n't want to create a , a permanent precedent that this committee always picked up the bill for the camera . |
| 2 | Mona , who had her daughter Soraya and a nanny with her , also picked up the tab for expensive dinners at trendy restaurants . |
| 3 | ‘ You wo n't be paying for inappropriate placements and you wo n't be picking up the bill for carers later . |
| 4 | But a major difficulty remains : SSDs will be reluctant to commit themselves to picking up the bill for several months ' residential rehabilitation for someone who may have arrived in the area the previous week . |
| 5 | I objected in Committee and in the House tonight to his implication — it was not stated in so many words — that the £780 million would be paid locally by the other people in the area picking up the bill for the single-person households . |
| 6 | Univel Inc , the Novell Inc/Unix System Labs joint venture for Destiny , is picking up the charter for recruiting the all-important software for the soon-to-debut desktop operating system from USL and this week will announce an early access programme that will get binary code into independent software developers ' hands immediately . |
| 7 | John Simpson 's lucid report for Panorama , following groups of mujahedin through most of this year , attested to both the benevolent power of photography — cameramen Chris Hooke and Peter Juvenal courageouslycaught images of broken bodies and wrecked villages , of fire and snow — and the more dubious power of America and Russia , picking up the tab for the fighters but not the victims . |
| 8 | The new conductor , Thelma Strange , picking up the baton for the first time , is his former pupil and so is new accompanist Kathryn Clarke . |
| 9 | The contractors are rightly concerned that they should not be forced to pick up the bill for problems which are not of their making . |
| 10 | Nor , more modestly , does it provide any reason why the Treasury , responsible for the ultimate public obligation to pick up the bill for public bodies which can not be allowed to default , should exercise a prudential interest in its performance . |
| 11 | He has also failed to recognise that the Welsh people will have to pick up the bill for his spending policies . |
| 12 | What I , I intend to do is to , I think it would be unfortunate if , as the result of a major development which is actually funding this new junction , the County Council then has to pick up the bill for other ameliorating effects a little bit further on the network . |
| 13 | As our economy has declined as our recession has turned to a slump increasingly it is the low-paid , the sick , the disabled and the unemployed who have been forced to pick up the tab for the Tory policy failure . |
| 14 | Sometimes I still pick up the guitar for ideas , but I find that I end up finishing them on piano . ’ |
| 15 | It is conventional wisdom among advice agencies , local authorities and fuel boards that it 's the women who pick up the tab for men 's mismanagement . |
| 16 | We pick up the plane for Punta Arenas at Arica , just across the Chilean border . ’ |
| 17 | Pay-as-you-go means that today s contributors pay for the pension of today 's retired people — on the basis that the next generation will pick up the bill for today 's contributors when they retire . |
| 18 | There is a growing , often unstated , anticipation that the private sector will pick up the bill for public services . |
| 19 | It is the local authorities that must pick up the bill for those problems . |
| 20 | If that involves an overnight stay the scheme will pick up the bill for accommodation . |
| 21 | If the equipment is damaged it is unclear who will pick up the bill for its repair or replacement . |
| 22 | It 's the expensive side of medicine , you see , that the public will pick up the bill for , so you 've got to try and have a balance between these things . |
| 23 | He would n't pick up the tab for anyone else . |
| 24 | His sentence was terminated when Sahara officials bailed him out and said they would pick up the tab for the room but he would have to pay for his food and drink himself . |
| 25 | Erm we will pay we will pick up the tab for your hotel . |
| 26 | In addition , my company will pick up the tab for all legal and moving expenses . |
| 27 | There was a rich woman who picked up the check for her friends — in short they were an entourage . |
| 28 | HOLLYWOOD heart-throb Tom Cruise picked up the bill for a group of students he saw trying to impress their girlfriends . |
| 29 | In 1981 , when he was known to be seriously ill , Henry Fonda was voted Best Actor for On Golden Pond : his daughter and ( co-star ) Jane picked up the Oscar for him , and he died just five months later . |
| 30 | The driver of the jeep said they picked up the Arab for questioning because he could not explain what he was doing in the area . |