Example sentences of "pick up the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Detective-Sergeant 's keen ears had picked up the dripping tap in the bathroom . |
| 2 | And it looks as though it 's picked up the middle page . |
| 3 | Gary Shandling , host of the ceremony in Los Angeles , warned the audience after Clapton had picked up the Best Album Grammy : ‘ If you are up in any other categories against Eric Clapton , I would go home now . ’ |
| 4 | It rang for a long time , and he thought he was going to be out of luck , but eventually the receiver was picked up the other end . |
| 5 | I crossed the hall and had actually picked up the offending item before realizing its full implication ; my father , I recalled , had been brushing the entrance hall a half-hour or so earlier . |
| 6 | However , as I replaced the cap , to my utter amazement , I noticed it was labelled ‘ Geranium ’ — I had picked up the wrong bottle . |
| 7 | It has much improved printer support , though , and with 3D graphs at long last arriving on the Lotus menu , some users will think they 've picked up the wrong spreadsheet ! |
| 8 | They have picked up the wrong book and are probably in the wrong bookstore . |
| 9 | This year it was ever-reliable Tony Humphries who shifted the club world on its axis and demolished the Sound Factory Bar by creating an hour-long mega-mix out of a tune he 'd picked up the previous week during one of his periodical spinning visits to Switzerland . |
| 10 | From the same papyri we learn that the Ptolemies had picked up the well-known Sheikh of Transjordan , Tobiah , to command the military settlers in his territory . |
| 11 | In an improbable , but typical , detour in a review of a book about corsets , she asks : ‘ How has it come about that feminists have picked up the masculine notion that those women who are n't self-confessed feminists do n't known what they 're doing , half the time ? ’ |
| 12 | Earlier , holidaying in the less exotic Yorkshire resort of Filey she had picked up the American Beat anthology Protest , one of the volumes triggered by the ‘ on the road ’ boom after 1957 . |
| 13 | Below the soft throb of the music , his increased sense of hearing had picked up the quiet click of the outer door to his private suite being closed . |
| 14 | She 'd picked up the literary allusion immediately , and enjoyed those few seconds during which the man 's intensely blue eyes had held her own . |
| 15 | Without another word , Bert Rafferty gently picked up the frightened child and made towards the cliff . |
| 16 | Picking up the long gun , Doyle ran his finger along the barrel and then held it out to the Hare-woman . |
| 17 | The iron melts , picking up the correct amount of carbon from the coke , and runs out of the tap-hole at the bottom . ’ |
| 18 | No harm in picking up the extra dough , so long as I was doing my client 's work at the same time . ’ |
| 19 | She placed the receiver down and reached to the table top , picking up the silenced gun and holding it gently in both hands . |
| 20 | No , he was going round the halls , picking up the odd act , putting shows on , making money . |
| 21 | The reception had told her the Scottish Football team were residents in the hotel which increased her hopes of picking up the odd tip in order to ease her way through University . |
| 22 | Now , as the cold winds blow in New England , our transatlantic chums in Citizens seem to be doing a repeat act , picking up the odd dime or at least two Five Cents , Plymouth Five Cents and Boston Five Cents . |
| 23 | When you picking up the new car ? |
| 24 | ‘ What on earth do you mean ? ’ asked her mother aggressively , picking up the nearest dress to hand . |
| 25 | But for her insistence on being free for Dickie 's holidays she could have had a ward sister 's job in Benedict 's by just picking up the nearest telephone . |
| 26 | At the same time you bleep the missing swimming pool attendant who responds by picking up the nearest intercom substation handset allowing you to issue instructions directly , all within a matter of seconds rather than minutes . |
| 27 | Picking up the remote control , he turned the TV on to video . |
| 28 | Your camcorder 's microphone will no doubt do a first-rate job of picking up the general sound atmosphere , or ambience . |
| 29 | Picking up the internal telephone , she buzzed Stephanie , abruptly coming to a decision she 'd been wrestling with for a couple of days , one she considered to be eminently sensible and practical … |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Poole , picking up the broken key . |