Example sentences of "pick up [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ishida Aerospace has picked up on an Eighties Cold War idea generated by the US military , which has financed the design , construction and flight testing of a propeller-driven VTOL plane , namely the Osprey , whose features were shown in your illustration . |
| 2 | This was more a psychological war of attrition than a physical threat , but it was on just such an occasion that we used what might be called our only " weapons " — a couple of pairs of plastic , luminous , blood-shot eyes which I had picked up in an American novelty store over Halloween . |
| 3 | And er guys started to go down that to the twenty foot level where they were picked up by an inflatable off the standby boat . |
| 4 | Lieutenant Davis was caught ashore next night and his paddler , Able Seaman McGuire , was picked up by an armed fishing boat . |
| 5 | Four more S.79s were sent out from Sicily to search for it but one ran out of fuel and had to ditch , the crew being picked up by an Italian hospital ship . |
| 6 | Police fear the instrument may have been dumped and could be picked up by an unsuspecting member of the public . |
| 7 | The royal couple 's individual humanity , rather than their status , has made most impact ; Charles 's unflagging curiosity , reports of Diana shaking hands with a leper in Indonesia , her instinctive picking up of an old woman 's dropped walking-stick . |
| 8 | To pick up on an earlier theme , there are two main traditions in penal reform . |
| 9 | Whether inherited or picked up from an antique shop , it often holds a sentimental value — but what is it really worth ? |