Example sentences of "able to pick up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should you be successful , you will be able to pick up a bounty on each of them . ’ |
| 2 | Being able to pick up a colour and press it on coloured paper was all very exciting . |
| 3 | It was another six months before I was able to pick up a gun again . |
| 4 | For in the company of over 200 or so other eager enthusiasts , I was able to pick up a few interesting little pieces . |
| 5 | Well I hope you 've been able to pick up a bit of something but I 'm not very good at it myself cos old days and old times . |
| 6 | You ca n't contact the ‘ Bears ’ direct on that rig but they might just be able to pick up an emergency signal . |
| 7 | But worse still , if the pilot is able to pick up the dropped wing after the initial swing , because of the acceleration the controls suddenly become effective , and this often results in the other wing touching just as the aircraft becomes airborne . |
| 8 | It was good fortune for BR to be able to pick up the 1938 survivors — only retained into the 1980s to bail out the Northern Line from a vast increase in traffic . |
| 9 | So , even if bitten or scratched by a cat that had somehow smeared its teeth or claws with infected blood from its sores , the human victim would still not be able to pick up the disease . |
| 10 | Everybody says , ‘ Oh , you won £44,000 in the world championships , you must 've been really pleased with that , ’ but it 's not just the money , it 's being able to pick up the trophy at the end — that 's the nice thing . |
| 11 | From these results , it would appear that the younger children were not able to pick up the linguistic cues to the deductive/empirical distinction contained in the experimenter 's questions . |
| 12 | They were the lucky ones , able to pick up the pieces of a warm family life that they feared had gone forever . |
| 13 | Judges ought , when they are pre-reading a case , to be able to pick up the skeleton argument , and they ought actually to be able to start with the skeleton argument , which would tell them in very succinct form the background facts and what the points are . |
| 14 | This hopefully will cause them a fixture congestion around April/May with us hopefully been able to pick up the pieces . |
| 15 | Both his sisters kissed him — another first — and Kitty had to have her hand prised out of his before Charlie was able to pick up the brown paper parcel that contained all his worldly goods . |
| 16 | yeah , to see if that car 's been sold , stolen or whatever and yet a solicitor come he said your solicitor will be able to pick up the phone , take you through the right channels , see if he 's sold that car , he has n't sold the car , who 's he sold it |
| 17 | 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 ? |