Example sentences of "pick up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The four were Donna Maguire , arrested in Turnhout , Belgium , on June 16 , who was wanted in connexion with attacks in West Germany in 1989 ; Gerard Majella Harte , arrested over the Dutch border on June 16 , after evading Belgian police near Turnhout , with a man provisionally named as Michael Collins who escaped in handcuffs but was later picked up over the Dutch border in Chaam , on June 18 ; and Paul Hughes , who drove through a police checkpoint in Chaam on June 18 and was arrested there on June 19 . |
| 2 | The returning echoes are believed to be picked up through the fatty interior of the lower jaw . |
| 3 | It was picked up on the fourth ring by an answerphone . |
| 4 | Most of the cost will at first be picked up at the federal level , but the BMFT will gradually reduce its share of financial support over the eight years . |
| 5 | An emissary from London to St Petersburg was picked up at the imperial frontier and a large number of compromising letters fell into the hands of tsarist investigators . |
| 6 | The phone was picked up at the other end and Charles pressed his two p into the coinbox . |
| 7 | Well you 've got another two or three hours on the journey , but having said tha well if you get picked up at the other end it 's not too bad . |
| 8 | Of the 34 recurrent duodenal ulcers detected , 23 ( 68% ) occurred in patients taking placebo , most recurrences being picked up at the scheduled 4 , 8 , and 12 month endoscopies ( 15/23 placebo , 7/11 cisapride ) . |
| 9 | David Ormerod , a geology lecturer at the Open University , has been held in Oradea , Romania , for the past three days , after being picked up at the main crossing point into Hungary . |
| 10 | ‘ But my advice is not to panic and to wait and see how many tickets can be picked up at the last minute . ’ |
| 11 | Similarly it seems unlikely that the reader will bother to construct a three-dimensional , photographic representation of ‘ the baby ’ which cries in the first sentence and which is picked up in the second sentence . |
| 12 | We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place |
| 13 | I should say I hardly recognised him but scarcely is the word I have picked up in the strange places to which Sebastian and I have journeyed . |
| 14 | Although things have picked up in the last six months , the work is more likely to be restructuring , rights issues or corporate rescues . |
| 15 | Since a few ladies who had been at the tea would also be at the committee meeting , and , anyway , Boyd had messed up her best black afternoon dress , she wore now a pretty gown in green wool which she had picked up in the last sale at Eaton 's . |
| 16 | ‘ But to suggest that coincidentally this recording , made just a fortnight earlier , was also picked up in the same way does stretch one 's credibility . ’ |
| 17 | Er but I do n't believe it 's worthwhile doing manual on the cases , they will get picked up in the next data support run which runs two weeks afterwards , that 'll be erm beginning of May . |
| 18 | I have what I believe to be a very important piece of information for marine fish keepers which I have picked up from the marine scene in the USA . |
| 19 | There is no mistaking the physical menace in the soft but grinding discord which announces Balstrode 's " Look , the storm cone " , or the thrill of fear in his fugue theme " Now the flood tide " [ 7 ] , with its opening minor second , which is picked up by the entire chorus and worked into one of those overwhelming Verdian ensembles which climax the first scene of each act . |
| 20 | It stands in splendid isolation near the moorland road to Bowes and it was there that merchants and farmers would leave butter eggs and other foodstuffs to be picked up by the afflicted . |
| 21 | This philosophy of helping elderly people return to or stay in their own or small-scale homes will be picked up by the new centres . |
| 22 | This explanation of urban poverty in terms of ‘ perverse incentives ’ is being picked up by the right wing in Britain and used as the basis for proposals for new policies and regulations regarding unemployment benefit , income support , and housing entitlement as they apply to lone mothers . |
| 23 | She had no way of knowing that her friend had been picked up by the Communist Maquis with whom she was now living . |
| 24 | The various whirrings and whinings which may be emitted by the camcorder itself , not to mention any noises which you make while operating the controls , are liable to be faithfully picked up by the on-board microphone . |
| 25 | Already re-invented by top international designers , the short skirt will undoubtedly be picked up by the high street stores , and once again start to look new . |
| 26 | Already re-invented by top international designers , the short skirt will undoubtedly be picked up by the high street stores , and once again start to look new . |
| 27 | Any ferret can carry the transmitting device that provides the signal to be picked up by the hand-held locator . |
| 28 | Now she sees many of the ideas being picked up by the commercial companies with which she had dealings because they believe it brings new talent into the industry . |
| 29 | The State Department in Washington still must decide what to do with the migrants , apparently picked up by the Panamanian-registered East Wood from an island off China to be smuggled to Hawaii . |
| 30 | It 's worth mentioning too , that during the year , er , Dr Tim , the general practitioner , who is seconded with er , Social Services , has been doing work on hospital discharge , making sure that the arrangements are , are working , and his reports have been picked up by the respective authorities , and , er , there has er , a sort of action plan has been put together , which is , which is intended to try to improve the er , existing hospital discharge arr arrangement , making sure that people are discharged from hospital and that the er , right type of care is available for them in , in the community . |