Example sentences of "pick it [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ The people coming to the party were a bit daft and probably would have picked it up and done some damage with it . ’ |
| 2 | One of you has picked it up and put it in your pocket ’ ! |
| 3 | What if you camp on to somebody and then their phone becomes free , and this starts ringing , and by the time you 've picked it up and answered it , they 've made another outgoing call , so they 're busy a second time ? |
| 4 | Picking it up and pretending to do a rather elaborate waltz along the road with it , on the other hand , would be thought of as a much more creditable act of hooliganism . |
| 5 | Cos I remember , I remember picking it up and reading it , I was out in the garden at the time . |
| 6 | And after several attempts to break the shell open by picking it up and dropping it onto the rocks , well that did n't work , so the bird picked it up and then from a about a height of twenty feet it dropped it onto the rocks below . |
| 7 | Yeah , this guy comes home from work and his wife 's got the chair and she 's picking it up and taking it around like this |
| 8 | ‘ This is for you , ’ he said , picking it up and offering it to her . |
| 9 | When a worker , coming out of the nest , sees the corpse , its instinct is to pick it up and remove it , for that is part of its regular nest-cleaning duties . |
| 10 | Joan : One day , my mum hates birds , right , so my cat , um , um , killed one and brought it indoors and my mum screamed and my da — my brother had to pick it up and take it outside . |
| 11 | She indicated the glass of milk on the table and moved to pick it up and take it into the kitchen . |
| 12 | They ought to be made to pick it up and eat it . |
| 13 | When we are very young we see a fluffy kitten as something especially soft and cuddly and we have a strong desire to pick it up and hold it tight . |
| 14 | I ca n't see you 'll have to pick it up and show me I 'm not climbing over the chair to look show me . |
| 15 | She looked at the telephone on her desk and for a minute was tempted to pick it up and ask for David Fairfax 's number . |
| 16 | If I am following someone who drops their wallet then it would be idle to deny that I have a duty to pick it up and return it . |
| 17 | I was going to pick it up and put it outside again when a woman , a psychiatrist 's wife , stopped me . |
| 18 | And then we had to pick it up and put it near Cider and Cider ate it . |
| 19 | Cuddle it right , it 's wrapped up in about six layers of erm whatever , are you just going to pick it up and cuddle it or are you going to do anything with all those layers ? |
| 20 | So you had to pick it up and carry it outside ? |
| 21 | Erm are they going to pick it up and set it up |
| 22 | When you observe leaf-roll , it does n't take a moment to pinch the leaf firmly between finger and thumb or , better still , to pick it off and burn it . |
| 23 | They 're trying to pick it off and doing it on the big grass . |
| 24 | , late at night , , they 've got the boat , and the tape , they 're both out on tape and video , and basically you have to go back , as soon as the boat comes through docks the next person picks it up and goes , so you 've got very little time to pick up information , and all the time you ca n't go in , and the clock 's going , and the clock 's going and you switch , and they said it was , next to you , they said it such a |
| 25 | The child picks it up and mimes the phrase on the paper . |
| 26 | He picks it up and sees that it 's a tiny silver woman , with hair like spun silk and blue eyes like pieces of the sky come down to earth — ; |
| 27 | The binder can then shuffle down the wide row gathering a sheaf onto his insteps ; he then picks it up and binds it with straw or twine ( see Figure 11 ) . |
| 28 | because the editor picks it up and say ‘ I can use that because I can see an angle , I could use it in this way or that way or , |
| 29 | ( He picks it up and puts it in his bag . |
| 30 | like little sugar bits and they pick it up and take it back to nest |