Example sentences of "pick up [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was picked up on the fourth ring by an answerphone . |
| 2 | ‘ But my advice is not to panic and to wait and see how many tickets can be picked up at the last minute . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | Although things have picked up in the last six months , the work is more likely to be restructuring , rights issues or corporate rescues . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The save_set will then be picked up by the next incremental backup . |
| 9 | Some 44 per cent of the 65 advertisers interviewed saw the economy picking up in the last quarter of this year at the earliest , and a further 35 per cent did not envisage an improvement until 1993 . |
| 10 | ‘ We do n't like the term price war because that implies that these holidays are the type of bargain basement deal you pick up at the last minute . |
| 11 | Even if output continues to decline at a similar pace in this quarter before it picks up in the next ( as most forecasters expect ) , the total peak-to-trough decline will look much shallower than the 2.7% average drop in GNP during the eight recessions since the second world war . |
| 12 | They can make a decent case that economic growth will pick up in the second half of the year . |
| 13 | Outside his ears picked up for the first time the rustling of invisible leaves and the rattle of window-frames : the wind was rising . |
| 14 | She picked up on the first ring , almost as though she had been expecting him to call . |
| 15 | In 1978 fog at Heathrow airport prevented me from flying to referee the first ever game between France and Russia , and in 1981 a leg injury picked up in the First Test prevented me refereeing the Second Test between France and New Zealand . |
| 16 | In East Yorkshire they are glacial erratics , stones picked up in the last Ice Age , worn smooth , and deposited as the ice retreated . |