Example sentences of "picked up [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mouth picked up at the corners and she just had to laugh . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ When the show started everybody jumped on it and picked up on the things that were n't working . |
| 5 | I think Mr picked up on the points that I really wanted to address in Mr 's remarks . |
| 6 | Below lay a yard , which was sometimes full of empty liquor casings , picked up by the suppliers whenever there was a new delivery . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He was n't the only one picked up by the police . |
| 9 | allow and they reckon that soft ones are better suited too sports because , because of the great action they 're harder to , to knock out , whereas soft ones er , have better other qualities , I 've got this little fucking book , book that I picked up in the Boots in Farnborough the other day yes , its quite interesting . |
| 10 | He was full of all the gossip and rumours , most of it picked up from the ships he visited and seamen he talked to . |
| 11 | The electrical information is recovered , and by the process of decoding it he can determine the amount of emotional stress in actual figures based on the levels of the electrical impulses picked up from the subjects . |