Example sentences of "they [vb base] pick [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Camcorder microphones are contrary devices : sometimes they fail to pick up the sounds that they should , and sometimes they hear things that they should n't . |
| 2 | It has much improved printer support , though , and with 3D graphs at long last arriving on the Lotus menu , some users will think they 've picked up the wrong spreadsheet ! |
| 3 | Actually they 've picked up the pace Forest since the goal erm do n't this Leicester are playing anywhere near as well as they were at the time they scored . |
| 4 | I believe many people increasingly want their news when it is convenient for them — when they get in from work , when they 've picked up the children from school , when they take a break from their work , or finish a meeting , when they arrive in a hotel . |
| 5 | I believe many people increasingly want their news when it is convenient for them — when they get in from work , when they 've picked up the children from school , when they take a break from their work , or finish a meeting , when they arrive at a hotel . |
| 6 | They have picked up the wrong book and are probably in the wrong bookstore . |
| 7 | Erm I was going to pick up on a number of points that have been raised by previous speakers , but erm Mr Grigson and Mr Curtis seem to have er dealt with a few of those , erm just with regard to the the table put in by C P R E , with their figures , I would just agree with Mr Cur er Mr Grigson that there is a very substantial degree of double counting in those figures , there is also a very substantial degree of over provision in the allowance for for conversions , er past conversion rates in Greater York have averaged something like twenty nine dwellings per year , over a fifteen year period your talking about four hundred and thirty five dwellings , which is the figure that both York City Council and ourselves have have made allowance for for conversions , that compares with a figure of a thousand dwellings referred to by the C P R E and I see no foundation for that figure , erm , as I say Mr Curtis already picked up on the point about windfalls rates by Mr Thomas , erm just turning to the difference between the tables er submitted by the County Council and York City Council on the the residue within the er Greater York area , I would accept the figure , the figures put in the tables by Mr er by Mr Curtis , I think that they have picked up the the more recent planning permissions and the completions information , and they also take on board there more recent work on erm development within the city , and I I accept that table . |