Example sentences of "pick up [art] [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Had you picked up the skills by watching your mother ? ’ |
| 2 | Did Changez have any idea of the reluctance with which his bride-to-be , now moving across to her bookshelf , picking up a book by Kate Millett , staring into it for a few minutes and replacing it after a reproachful and pitying glance from her mother , would be exchanging vows with him ? |
| 3 | Perhaps the accidental resemblance of a video in its box to a book in its dust-jacket will lead a child to pick up a book by mistake , thinking it to be a video , and start reading . |
| 4 | The bream pick up a bait by simply sucking it to the edge of their lips , and then move away from the main shoal to consume it . |
| 5 | We do n't provide formal instruction , but novices pick up a lot by sailing out and back in light winds . |
| 6 | Gently hold the disc in place on the surface of a grid by means of a strong eyelash mounted to the end of a thin wooden ( orange ) stick , and pick up the disc by bringing the grid up under the disc and out of the water . |
| 7 | When picking something up from the floor , stand slightly in front and to the side of the object ; then , keeping the head upright , bend the knee and , still looking forward , pick up the object by feel ; do not look down . |
| 8 | Dusting your hands with icing sugar or cornflour to prevent sticking , carefully pick up the fondant by sliding your hands underneath it . |
| 9 | The bolt-rig works like this : the carp picks up the bait by sucking it into its mouth , but on the outward journey , when it blows to eject it , the hook point ( which is bare in a hair-rig remember ) pricks the carp 's mouth . |
| 10 | The first player in each team picks up the feather by inhaling through the straw . |
| 11 | You could pick up a seat by knowing the right people , having gone to the right school or being thought to be worth a few thousand — almost the first question put to the prospective MP for Richmond , Sir George Harvie-Watt , when he went up before the local selection committee in 1937 was whether he would subscribe £700 to the local association . |
| 12 | She chuckled , then might pick up the animal by the scruff ( if it were a cavey , or a bird ) , and dash it to death on the ground and spill the guts to read them for herself , then sprinkle blood inside the circle and on her cheeks and brow . |
| 13 | He picked up a kitten by its tail and swung it to and fro in the air , laughing at its cries . |
| 14 | I honestly had n't read anything as interesting since I first picked up a novel by Thomas Hardy . ’ |
| 15 | He picked up a cockerel by its feet , stuffing it under his arm . |
| 16 | She looked at it with considerable disbelief , picked up the bucket by its rim with her teeth , and tossed it aside : seven seconds ! |
| 17 | I closed my eyes and grasped the legs as my master picked up the corpse by the shoulders . |
| 18 | Willie Moe snorted and picked up the boy by the leg and started to whirl him as if winding him up , which was part of a new routine called ‘ The Living Propeller ’ . |
| 19 | Since it seemed churlish to argue , Mungo picked up the basket by the string . |
| 20 | The officer picked up the beggar by his neck . |