Example sentences of "would [vb infin] pick [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 But Faye and Roberta — well , they are n't middle class , to put it mildly , but surely they — yes , they would have picked up the know-how , the expertise , so if they did n't get things straight , it is because they did n't want to .
2 I should have had MyMa MyMouse in there and then it would have picked up the MyMo MyMouse driver .
3 The dead cetaceans , predators at the very top of the maritime food chain , would have picked up the toxins from shellfish and smaller animals which accumulate pollutants , Lenghaus said .
4 You would have picked up the parcel and you would have delivered it yourself .
5 FIFTEEN years ago few would have picked out the blue-collar Industrial National Bank of Rhode Island to emerge in the 1990s as the pre-eminent banking power in patrician New England .
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