Example sentences of "picked [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was beautiful , an antique that we picked up at a flea market in Bath . |
| 2 | Her mouth picked up at the corners and she just had to laugh . |
| 3 | ‘ Most people finding that the leather handbag they picked up at the school fete was , in fact , plastic would shrug it off if the proceeds of the sale were going to a good cause , ’ said Mr Richards . |
| 4 | Currently , records back to 1986 are on the system , and retrospective cataloguing will be carried out from data picked up at the loans desk when books are issued , so that we will have records for all material in current use . |
| 5 | Police Court trials usually included a miscellaneous collection of well-known ne'er-do-wells picked up over the weekend and arraigned on Monday morning to face drunk and disorderly charges . |
| 6 | It is simpler for golfers , of course , because there is an over-50 competition , besides which golf does not depend so much upon eye and agility and by using the wrinkles picked up over the years a player may still be competitive in his 50th year , as Raymond Floyd conclusively proved in the Masters at Augusta . |
| 7 | Sterling opened at Dm2.3157 , just above the all-time low it touched on Wednesday , but picked up through the day as dealers switched away from the German currency . |
| 8 | Carelessness — the thing picked up off the hall mat , thrust into her pocket and forgotten — or deliberate appropriation ? |
| 9 | And I know one of the things I picked up off the course was it ? |
| 10 | Erm one of the things I picked up off the course is , technically every training course that we have , should be written in a way that that identifies erm Unit two point four I 'm on to at the minute . . |
| 11 | Dell says it delayed the introduction of the Dimension machines until the small office and home office market picked up outside the US , but it also had to get its European manufacturing facility in Limerick , Ireland tooled up . |
| 12 | With the sea-routes open again trade picked up for a while . |
| 13 | After that it picked up for a while , and we looked quite sharp again . |
| 14 | But in saying that I 'll go ahead , I 'll go ahead with what Robert said although it seems as if erm between us we picked up on a lot of things , there was some objections that Martin threw at you that I thought you handled particularly well . |
| 15 | ‘ When the show started everybody jumped on it and picked up on the things that were n't working . |
| 16 | It was Wei Feng , T'ang of East Asia , who picked up on the word . |
| 17 | He shrugs off his legacy of injuries — a fractured bone in his back , ripped Achilles tendons , the deep bruise on his face which he picked up on the way to winning a bronze medal in Poland . |
| 18 | Water that has evaporated and condensed in the upper atmosphere , and then falls as rain , should be pure , except for a little carbon dioxide picked up on the way down ( although in fact , these days , it tends also to contain a whole catalogue of pollutants ) . |
| 19 | We played in Los Angeles and New York and it was real good , because they all picked up on the fact that it was different . |
| 20 | Erm I thought you had a good structured call , you were focused on business , you obviously picked up on the buying side . |
| 21 | I think Mr picked up on the points that I really wanted to address in Mr 's remarks . |
| 22 | A little idea I picked up during a sojourn among the dipsomaniacs of Mother Russia . |
| 23 | The police say his clothes may also have been covered in mud picked up during the attack . |
| 24 | Radar is a technique whereby an object is investigated by beaming at it a short pulse of radio waves some of which are scattered by the object and picked up by a detector . |
| 25 | Below lay a yard , which was sometimes full of empty liquor casings , picked up by the suppliers whenever there was a new delivery . |
| 26 | They would be watching the American channels , picked up by the satellite receiver dish on the outskirts of the village . |
| 27 | A premature release of the story in London , picked up by the BBC World Service and the news wire services , led to the University of Utah being inundated with eager news reporters for the press conference . |
| 28 | The estimates are based on observed trends picked up by the census , new GP registrations and other means . |
| 29 | It makes no sense to talk of unqualified ‘ parents rights ’ , and parental participation in investigations and case conferences — one of the concerns voiced in the Rochdale report and picked up by the press . |
| 30 | It has been no more severely shocked than many of the specimens picked up by the Apollo astronauts who journeyed to the Moon to find them . |