Example sentences of "picked [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mouth picked up at the corners and she just had to laugh . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Carelessness — the thing picked up off the hall mat , thrust into her pocket and forgotten — or deliberate appropriation ? |
| 8 | And I know one of the things I picked up off the course was it ? |
| 9 | 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 . . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ When the show started everybody jumped on it and picked up on the things that were n't working . |
| 12 | It was Wei Feng , T'ang of East Asia , who picked up on the word . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Erm I thought you had a good structured call , you were focused on business , you obviously picked up on the buying side . |
| 17 | I think Mr picked up on the points that I really wanted to address in Mr 's remarks . |
| 18 | The police say his clothes may also have been covered in mud picked up during the attack . |
| 19 | Below lay a yard , which was sometimes full of empty liquor casings , picked up by the suppliers whenever there was a new delivery . |
| 20 | They would be watching the American channels , picked up by the satellite receiver dish on the outskirts of the village . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The estimates are based on observed trends picked up by the census , new GP registrations and other means . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This is , in turn , picked up by the hearer 's auditory organs . |
| 26 | Trent imagined Golden Girl picked up by the surf and flung tumbling and splintering into fragments . |
| 27 | At each turn of the zigzag , the wheelbarrow toppled , and when I was tacking into the wind , grit , picked up by the wheel was blown into my eyes and mouth . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , the crop-haired young man picked up by the police turned out to be a journalist trying to infiltrate a skinhead gang for a story . |
| 29 | He was n't the only one picked up by the police . |
| 30 | Doddie Weir still has a lot to learn about No 8 play when it comes to back-row moves , witness the occasion against England when he picked up against the wheel and still tried to complete the move . |