Example sentences of "pick up [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's already picked up a thousand pounds tomorrow he 'll receive a copy of his short story — The Green Moustache , which er got him into the final along with the other eleven winning stories which are being published in an anthology , which is hot off the presses from the publishers Collins . |
| 2 | I think she 's picked up a few pointers , like how to chop an onion and how to dissolve an Oxo cube . |
| 3 | He 'd obviously picked up a few tips from the paperbacks , because he spun these stories out like a kid pulling on chewing-gum . |
| 4 | I much regret that such a new Member of Parliament should have picked up the churlish habits of other Labour Members . |
| 5 | If the pension funds and insurance companies had waited they could have picked up the same properties at a far lower price . |
| 6 | Emil , who must have picked up the same signals , spoke with a true leader 's decisiveness . |
| 7 | The police had picked up the red sports car nine miles south of Ashford in Kent . |
| 8 | as if to prove it , our green-fingered experts have again picked up the top prizes in Aberdeen district council 's gardening competition . |
| 9 | So again , erm a way of picking up a few marks , quite a few . |
| 10 | There was only one person to whom Jerome would be reporting with so much fervour ; Bénezet , naturally curious about anything that might serve his turn or redound to his profit , was not averse to picking up a few crumbs of useful information by the way . |
| 11 | ‘ Being used as cheap labour to break Alejandro 's ponies , ’ said Luke , taking Perdita 's suitcases from her , ‘ in return for picking up a few tips from the master . ’ |
| 12 | than a poet ever could ; picking up the smallest insects |
| 13 | Picking up the Tiny Tears she grasped it to herself , cuddling the cold plastic head to her face . |
| 14 | Juliette bent down and began picking up the smashed pieces of china . |
| 15 | MELROSE , this season 's Scottish champions , added the Border League trophy to their collection last night by picking up the two points they needed under the floodlights at Mansfield Park . |
| 16 | Because i it is assumed management is learned by picking up the bad habits of your predecessor and their predecessors for the last five hundred years . |
| 17 | Susan , an unwonted flush on her pale cheeks , was picking up the wet things out of the grate . |
| 18 | She leaned closer and reached out , to pick up a few strands of dark hair . |
| 19 | I sympathized and threw in a few choice obscenities and ‘ hanging 's too good for ‘ ems ’ but made a note to pick up a few watches next time I was down the Brick Lane midnight market . |
| 20 | SMALL investors could use any spare cash to pick up a few holdings in carefully chosen smaller companies . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't think that professionalism as such should have a place within the playing side of the Association , ’ states the Dungiven clubman , ‘ We play for pure enjoyment and recreation and if along the way we manage to pick up a few honours , then that 's great . |
| 22 | His intention was to pick up the 18,000 troops assembled in the area behind Quiberon known as the Morbihan and transport them to Scotland , as the first stage of the great invasion plan . |
| 23 | MIPS expects a number of its OEMs to pick up the new ARCsystems including CDC , Tandem and government integrator AT&T Federal Systems Advanced Technologies which will put its System V/Multi-Level Secure Unix on the boxes . |
| 24 | ‘ Of course , ’ his wife answered , starting to pick up the dirty dishes . |
| 25 | Between about 1947 and 1951 , when the Ritz in Sheffield , Alabama was still open , my main encounters with the place — between the ages of four and eight — were on trips with my father across the river to pick up the final reports on the daily receipts on all four of the Rosenbaum theatres our family owned in Sheffield and Tuscumbia . |
| 26 | Pepita began to pick up the fallen bananas and place them back in their crate . |
| 27 | These jelly-filled tubes have electroreceptor cells at their ends , delicate enough to pick up the tiny discharges of the prey 's body . |
| 28 | Once again , although men are capable of this too , the ability is less marked , and many will rely on their women to pick up the intangible clues , or to decode their own shadowy impressions for them . |
| 29 | Another problem which electric fish have circumvented is that very sensitive receptors are needed to pick up the weak signals of other fish , and such receptors would be swamped by the fish 's own field . |
| 30 | It was good fortune for BR to be able to pick up the 1938 survivors — only retained into the 1980s to bail out the Northern Line from a vast increase in traffic . |