Example sentences of "pick up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Although the ex the special allowance was actually withdrawn , but nevertheless , the responsibility for generally dealing with it , was picked up by the local authority . |
| 32 | The save_set will then be picked up by the next incremental backup . |
| 33 | End date it 's picking up off the same list . |
| 34 | Picking up on the head maltster 's request for co-operation in Audience , Pryce-Jones wrote , ‘ Will Ferdinand help , and kindly inform on himself ? |
| 35 | It 's picking up onto the same list is it ? |
| 36 | When Lucy went around the dressing rooms picking up after the final number , her hands shook . |
| 37 | Some 44 per cent of the 65 advertisers interviewed saw the economy picking up in the last quarter of this year at the earliest , and a further 35 per cent did not envisage an improvement until 1993 . |
| 38 | This Spotlight reports on a survey of 94 adults ( defined as people aged 20 or over ) who fell into this category and looks at what — if anything — providers might do to pick up on the original expression of interest . |
| 39 | And , says the company , it has a joint marketing agreement with Hewlett-Packard in Germany , and in the US is working with both DEC and Motorola Computer Systems in its quest to pick up on the expanding downsizing trend . |
| 40 | The 1986 and 1987 figures show a rapid pick up for the larger firms in particular . |
| 41 | A good agency interviewer will look through it and pick up on the same gaps and discrepancies which will appear to the job interviewer but will not be looking with any one particular job in mind . |
| 42 | Major Tzann could not help but pick up on the missing contriteness . |
| 43 | ‘ We do n't like the term price war because that implies that these holidays are the type of bargain basement deal you pick up at the last minute . |
| 44 | Even if output continues to decline at a similar pace in this quarter before it picks up in the next ( as most forecasters expect ) , the total peak-to-trough decline will look much shallower than the 2.7% average drop in GNP during the eight recessions since the second world war . |
| 45 | I can soon pick up on the current contacts , get a good team together . ’ |
| 46 | Right , I 'll , what I 'll do I 'll try and pick up on the local electrician or something . |
| 47 | However , whilst asserting that the reporting accountant should already as part of his or her duties be auditing at least two reconciliations in detail they also argued that the process was ‘ highly unlikely to reveal a great deal that the reporting accountant would not otherwise pick up during the year-end work ’ . |
| 48 | They can make a decent case that economic growth will pick up in the second half of the year . |
| 49 | Er but , you know , I , I 'd , as I say , I think er and then if we just , if we can just pick up like the odd I mean , I 've , I 've had a long chat with Anne , we 've had a long , erm meeting with Anne yesterday about it , and she 's gon na start pushing cos you know , she 's really done the Royal upstairs , it 's |
| 50 | The arrangements have been made so as to enable spectators to be SET DOWN AND PICKED UP AT THE SAME POINT in a city unfamiliar to them . |
| 51 | Stung by My Bloody Valentine comparisons and having fallen out with Creation Records , 1992 picked up with the glorious ‘ Secondhand Clothes ’ EP and patronage by Too Pure ( where they remain ) . |
| 52 | Outside his ears picked up for the first time the rustling of invisible leaves and the rattle of window-frames : the wind was rising . |
| 53 | She picked up on the first ring , almost as though she had been expecting him to call . |
| 54 | He picked up on the young man 's unease , he recalled his own unlicensed ranting , he sensed the quarryman 's fear of him . |
| 55 | So was it very surprising that I picked up on the African presence moving around the island ? |
| 56 | you just like the idea of bacon cooking you picked up on the same idea . |
| 57 | The passports were rushed to Newcastle airport , flown on a British Airways flight to Heathrow , picked up by the Metropolitan Police and taken to Gatwick . |
| 58 | The plain walls were painted in a typically French eighteenth-century green , a colour picked up in the rich , floral design of the fabric , copied from an eighteenth-century Lyons silk , battened to the adjoining wall , and used for the opulent bed coverings . |
| 59 | In 1978 fog at Heathrow airport prevented me from flying to referee the first ever game between France and Russia , and in 1981 a leg injury picked up in the First Test prevented me refereeing the Second Test between France and New Zealand . |
| 60 | Things picked up in the forties , of course , during the war . |