Example sentences of "pick up a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I had left your house , I had picked up a small bag . |
| 2 | And his hand picked up a dropped boot to hurl it against the crackling plastic doors . |
| 3 | In My Early Life he says I had picked up a wide vocabulary and a liking for the feel of words fitting and falling into their places like pennies in the slot . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Tadpole has picked up a second firm , Isometrics , to peddle the Sparcbook to the US government , and says a second strategy to make it easier for US government bodies to buy its technology will be revealed in a couple of weeks ( UX No 381 ) . |
| 5 | The prosecution alleged that a 37-year-old man had picked up a 29-year-old woman when she was hitch-hiking from London towards Oxford , and ‘ went berserk ’ when she rejected his sexual advances . |
| 6 | The BBC has picked up a similar trend . |
| 7 | Tadpole US has picked up a new president , Kenneth Cannizzaro , previously the firm 's director of business development : he 's responsible for operations and market expansion in the Americas and the Pacific Rim . |
| 8 | And , Charles ' mind raced on , Steen could have picked up a new tottie at the Sex of One … party on the Saturday night . |
| 9 | The yachts later picked up a freshening breeze which reached Force 5 approaching the island . |
| 10 | An example was ultrasound , suggested by a zoologist whose colleague 's ‘ bat detector ’ , which receives sound in ultrasonic frequencies , had picked up a strong signal emanating from a nearby ancient site . |
| 11 | Full of new hope that maybe our rethink might be working he struck into what appeared a solid fish , although this was a little misleading as the cat had picked up a little weed and once freed she quickly surrendered . |
| 12 | Michael Roberts has picked up a two-week ban in South Africa for the second time this winter . |
| 13 | Keith Campbell , from north Belfast , has picked up a top award from computer firm Digital after coming first in the BTEC National Diploma in a computer studies course at Belfast Institute School of Informatics . |
| 14 | When the procession , which had now picked up a large following , reached Grassgill End the effigy was placed on a small stone area at the roadside , its clothes were drenched with paraffin and it was set alight . |
| 15 | And the , but then I went to live in Northern Ireland so I 've got a so picked up a fair bit of Northern Ireland . |
| 16 | Clough junior , used as a lone striker , put Forest ahead after five minutes , prodding the ball wide of Hans Segers after Kingsley Black had picked up a dreadful pass by Wimbledon 's Roger Joseph . |
| 17 | No I would n't , cos I might have picked up a different thing . |
| 18 | He and Fonda retired to their trailer , smoked some marijuana and then came out and told the crowd of local youths that they should imagine that the two of them had just arrived in town , and , on the way , they had picked up a local girl of fifteen , and raped and left her in the bushes . |
| 19 | In San Salvador , children have picked up a catchy radio tune about the Condor brand of condoms and can be heard singing in the streets : " Condor is your friend , — always take him with you ! " |
| 20 | As soon as the starter says ‘ Go ’ , ride positively towards the first fence , picking up a good rhythm as soon as possible . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm picking up a powerful field of daemonic shielding from this hulk . |
| 22 | I do n't deliberately put my face in the sun — but you ca n't help picking up a slight tan from reflected sunlight , particularly if , like me , you swim a lot . |
| 23 | ‘ Ah , you keep my son in a cupboard , do you ! ’ he cried angrily , picking up a sharp kitchen knife . |
| 24 | ‘ Maybe the best way of putting it is that if you were abroad and on the town , Con would find a licensed brothel where the girls all had health checks , while the riff-raff might sometimes take the risk of picking up a likely-looking tart in a bar . |
| 25 | We 're picking up a strange noise on the sonar . |
| 26 | ‘ What I would n't agree with is someone coming over here to play and picking up a cheap cap . |
| 27 | After he was pulled out of the tour following a four-match ban and then seeing Wakefield 's Michael Jackson make the trip after picking up a similar suspension , Goulding probably feels there 's a vendetta against him . |
| 28 | ‘ This was her school project , ’ he explains , picking up a long computer print-out . |
| 29 | For long-range fishing you can do without the elasticity , for picking up a long length of line and planting a hook is difficult enough without any ‘ give ’ . |
| 30 | ( Picking up a long nail . ) |