Example sentences of "the [noun sg] pick up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is also facing an inquiry over the taxpayer picking up part of his £24,000 bill to evict a self-styled sex therapist from his home and was embarrassed by revelations about his Access card . |
| 2 | The car picks up speed very quickly in the lower gears thanks to a 16-valve turbo engine and soon we were finding out how to negotiate winding country lanes at 60 . |
| 3 | The car picked up speed and shot off into the distance . |
| 4 | then off to the cafe to pick up Fairbrother |
| 5 | As the boat picks up speed , so you can settle gently into the boat to gain control . |
| 6 | She said school buses come into the village to pick up pupils after parents expressed fears for their safety waiting on the A67 . |
| 7 | She trailed around the room picking up beer bottles , looking oddly like a bee with broken wings . |
| 8 | The mullet pick up speed and head in towards land cleverly putting us between them and the dolphins . |
| 9 | The tube can be lowered into the tank and once a syphon has been made , the tube picks up gravel and agitates it and once you apply your thumb to the end of the hose , the gravel falls back to the bottom , leaving you with clean substrate and a bucketful of dirty water . |
| 10 | perhaps even more importantly , the Commonwealth representatives agreed on four ‘ freedoms ’ of the air that would form the basis of an international settlement : the right of innocent passage over sovereign territory ; the right to land for non-traffic purposes ( i.e. refuelling , repairs , and emergencies ) ; the right to land passengers , mail , and freight from the airline 's country of origin ; and the right to pick up passengers , mail , and freight for passage to the airline 's country of origin . |
| 11 | The British used the four ‘ freedoms ’ agreed at the Commonwealth meeting in October 1943 as the basis for discussion , but refused to consider a US proposal for a fifth freedom : the right to pick up passengers , mail , and freight at intermediate stops not in the country of origin of the airline or its ultimate destination . |
| 12 | Chant did so , slamming the cab door with no little satisfaction , and barely managing to reach the seat before the cab picked up speed . |
| 13 | In certain cases , there may be deposition of solid matter from ground water on standing , such as occurs in supplies containing iron or manganese , where , on exposure to the atmosphere , the water picks up oxygen or loses carbon dioxide , which results in precipitation of insoluble hydroxides . |
| 14 | ‘ During one of those desperate days when we were being attacked , I remember there was an official rescue ship which used to trail behind the convoy to pick up survivors from torpedoed ships . |
| 15 | After a hundred miles or so , she came off the motorway to pick up fuel and drink a cup of coffee . |
| 16 | In Alton Locke Kingsley takes the reader into a house like the ones depicted by Godwin with the caption given ( Fig. 35 ) , where the rushlight picks up reflections through the broad chinks in the floorboards of the sewer below . |
| 17 | And when , after lunch , she came downstairs in her new outfit , bought from Selfridge 's last week with the money which J. D. O'Connor had paid her for her articles , and with her next two articles in her bag , ready to be handed in to the great man himself before she returned to the rectory to pick up Rose Bailey , whose time off did not begin until four-thirty , both Dr Neil and Matey thought that she looked enchanting . |
| 18 | Even though the government picks up 80% of the cost of the huge security operation needed to guard the airline against terrorism , that still leaves El Al with a large bill . |
| 19 | One is somebody 's walking through the door to pick up information |
| 20 | With Alex James as the pivot picking up clearances from defence and passing immediately to the front-runners , Arsenal could have the ball in their opponents ' net only seconds after being packed in their own goal area . |
| 21 | As the undercarriage was retracted , the plane picked up speed . |
| 22 | The hand closed over the receiver picked up vibration , and the cord to the microphone went up the wearer 's sleeve unobtrusively . |
| 23 | And I often see her walking past with the children on the way to pick up others from the school . |
| 24 | Since the system picks up satellite telly , goggle box addicts need n't have an ugly giant saucer stuck on their home . |
| 25 | Passengers were ordered off as the double-decker picked up casualties from the Welcome Inn at Eltham , London . |
| 26 | Meanwhile the detector picks up hum from mains lighting and clicks are likely to occur whenever a flashing light is detected from whatever source . |
| 27 | The PLAYER picks up coin . |