Example sentences of "pick up the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | He broke off , picking up the list of pilots once again . |
| 32 | ‘ I 'll go , ’ she said , and ran to the surgery to collect the bag , and to pick up the roll of towelling and a pair of scissors which Dr Neil kept for emergencies . |
| 33 | Chopra stared at the space station , trying to pick up the memories of a past age . |
| 34 | The study walls are a rich red to pick up the burgundy of the tapestry curtains . |
| 35 | He 's having to pick up the equivalent of |
| 36 | but all d all different meanings and they could pick out and I said well erm it would er be handy for foreign people to have a speaking dictionary because they would be able to pick up the pronunciation of that word would n't they ? |
| 37 | A final chance to pick up the kind of luxuries not often seen on sale nowadays . |
| 38 | A better solution may well be to pick up the idea of rotating the audit partner every five to 10 years . |
| 39 | As George bent to pick up the halter of the horse which the boy had been holding , he looked round the yard with interest , noting how his father 's voice , though by no means a shout , had penetrated every corner . |
| 40 | He bent to pick up the curl of hair , which he put carefully in his pocket , next to his heart . |
| 41 | Expecting a word processor operator to pick up the elements of design , typography and layout skills by simply going on a two-day course is just not realistic . |
| 42 | We are not in the business of expecting other people who can ill afford it to pick up the cost of a single person 's discount for the rich . |
| 43 | In addition , all water authorities spent large sums on routine river maintenance on farmland ; and still more money was spent by the Ministry of Agriculture in contributing between 30 and 70 per cent of the cost of farmers held drainage , designed to pick up the benefits of lowering the water level , a result of river engineering schemes . |
| 44 | Even the most casual reader of the Crossman and Castle diaries can not fail to pick up the sense of exhaustion that permeates their pages . |
| 45 | Many of those present had found it hard to pick up the thread of what he was saying and instead had thought with a shiver : " Needles driven into your belly ! |
| 46 | ‘ We 're managing to pick up the sound of one of the males , ’ said a marine biologist , Vassili Papastavrou , as he listened intently through a set of headphones . |
| 47 | The basic framework of that popular culture was fairly obvious for urban workers not only lived close together in distinctive communities but had also begun to pick up the rudiments of an education and they had both savings and time to spare . |
| 48 | Just as I was about to pick up the pieces of card once more , I stopped transfixed . |
| 49 | Fernando Trueba 's flamboyant Euro-thriller stars Jeff Goldblum as Dan Gillis , a latter-day American in Paris attempting to pick up the pieces of a failed marriage , approached with an offer to write a screenplay for charismatic first-time director Malcolm ( Dexter Fletcher ) . |
| 50 | Consequently the daughter is left to pick up the pieces of the havoc caused by the strain of raised blood-pressure and general anxiety the next day . |
| 51 | And the look in her eye says Jill Morrell and John McCarthy have managed to pick up the pieces of their love |
| 52 | In the more stable area people were returning to pick up the pieces of their lives . |
| 53 | In her motherly concerned way , she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life . |
| 54 | They were the lucky ones , able to pick up the pieces of a warm family life that they feared had gone forever . |
| 55 | Now , at this very moment , he is trying to pick up the pieces of his life after you have shattered it so cruelly — ’ |
| 56 | Trying to pick up the pieces of his life , he says his experiences have made it difficult for him to trust anybody . |
| 57 | Husband took off his blue-tinted glasses and polished them on a silk handkerchief chosen to pick up the colours of both his suit and his tie . |
| 58 | To the accompaniment of one of Alan Dell 's Big Band programmes Patrick told Peter Jennings about the murder and the theft of the letters , the switched bodies and his decision to come out to Romania and try to pick up the scent of John and Angela Bonnard . |
| 59 | It 's the time young hounds are trained to pick up the scent of a fox . |
| 60 | Fran turned to leave , then stopped to pick up the photograph of her father . |