Example sentences of "pick up [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Lauda only picked up four points from the two races .
2 A second canoe on this mission was paddled back to be safely picked up five miles from the English coast .
3 Volunteers recently picked up eight tons of litter left by them .
4 Stoke have picked up 14 points from their last seven games .
5 By mid-morning she had done what housework she was prepared to do , and although she had used the vacuum cleaner , her nose felt full of dust , her heart heavy : she had picked up all manner of objects — scent bottles , jugs , a Staffordshire dog — wiped them desultorily and put them back .
6 Master Butcher Howard Callaghan and shop manager Alan Dean who had picked up first prize for an impressive window display in a competition in Harrogate on Monday , spent yesterday cleaning up the mess .
7 His own sources among the Altun had picked up vague hints of another conception upon which Sidacai had drawn or to which he had been led .
8 Finally , I have just picked up another item on railway laws : —
9 PICKED UP another £30,000 for sabbaticals — study leave — that he did not take .
10 Or perhaps it was merely an accident that Marcus had picked up those utterances of his ancestors .
11 After a period of use the heads may well have picked up sufficient debris from the disk surface to prevent a reliable reading of the magnetic information on the disk .
12 McQuaid had either struck true by pure chance or had picked up reliable gossip at the Mohill Fair .
13 Which is comparable complexity and er they have picked up considerable experience from that but , you know , I do n't wish here in this committee to in any way challenge the er capabilities or the competence of erm , of Deutsch Aerospace to undertake
14 It was the usual sequence : we 'd picked up this batch from the mass grave , in the woods , and stood waiting by the van on the approach road while the carbon monoxide went about its work .
15 AUSTRALIAN he-man Mel Gibson , best known for ‘ Mad Max ’ and ‘ Lethal Weapon ’ , has picked up kinder notices for his ‘ Hamlet ’ than perhaps he or anyone else expected .
16 ‘ We have failed to progress in Europe in recent years , but we have picked up valuable lessons from those experiences and I feel we are now ready for the challenge . ’
17 Athelstan carefully picked up some splinters of wood .
18 What I want to say is I picked up some information in Gorstone about MacQuillan funding a terrorist group in Northern Ireland .
19 In group A the Paper Tigers with their amazing bouncing ball have lifted their rounders difference to great heights while Dr Blobby and the Blobettes have at last picked up some points from a game , which means that all teams this year have managed to win at least one point .
20 It soon became reasonably certain that I had n't picked up any kind of tails or bugs , and so I could begin to relax .
21 ‘ The Serious Crime Squad come down , and sometimes I 'm told when they 're on my patch , most times I 'm not , they keep the Manor House under observation , on and off , but they 've not picked up any scent of him .
22 The squad had picked up several copies from a local newsagent : would I like one ?
23 Like two men in a maze , one may know his way and would make very few wrong turns in reaching his goal , by picking up familiar clues along the way .
24 Yentob and his colleague Michael Jackson , who came from The Late Show to run the music and arts department , are picking up warm endorsements for assuming Channel 4 's mantle of experiment .
25 In conjunction with considerable manual dexterity derived in part from the ability to oppose thumb and index finger which man shares with the gelada baboon and presumably derives from the same source ( picking up small objects of the diet ) , the adoption of an upright posture created the right conditions for the final emancipation of the hand from locomotion and set man on the path which led to the invention and use of tools and to material culture in general .
26 More youngsters are finding their own values clashing with a school 's social codes , some are picking up contradictory messages from the media and more are coming from broken or damaged families .
27 There are several other groups of managers who have recently moved into shell companies , with the view to picking up good deals in recession-hit markets .
28 However misinterpretation is always possible and it is also very possible that Bill is picking up other signals about John which John is not aware he 's sending .
29 They should be picking up other clues about each other too : the accents they speak with , the way they are dressed , the kind of hairstyles they have all tell us something about people we meet .
30 I 've noted there that , that if you were to bid for funds that had tapering attaching to them , and therefore you would be picking up increased costs in ninety five , six , and ninety six , seven , that they would n't exceed the figure shown at the bottom of the page .
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