Example sentences of "have been picked up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glancing at his watch , Donaldson saw that it was after five ; seven hours since he 'd been picked up at the courtroom , during which time he 'd skipped lunch and spent his afternoon handing tidbits to a bright primate . |
| 2 | Instead , it lists a range of different losses which , the writs served on the two firms last March allege , should have been picked up during the course of the audits . |
| 3 | Lead from petrol bought outside the Turin area would not have been picked up in the study . |
| 4 | All of this will have been picked up from a multitude of cues within the family — coyness in speaking about religion , sentimental talk at Christmas-time that equates religion with belief in Santa Claus , contempt for the hypocrisy ( real or imagined ) of religious officials , and the equation of religion with fanaticism and political reaction . |
| 5 | How else could it be so swiftly known that a prominent member of the Royal College of Acupuncturists , say , had been picked up during the night and pinched for drunk-driving ? |
| 6 | The water had been picked up in the Humber estuary and used as ballast . |
| 7 | BEIRUT — Syrian forces freed a Lebanese air force pilot who had been picked up by a gunboat after ditching his plane in the Mediterranean yesterday , Reuter reports . |
| 8 | Within minutes he had been picked up by a patrol car on the M5 in Gloucestershire . |
| 9 | She had no way of knowing that her friend had been picked up by the Communist Maquis with whom she was now living . |
| 10 | There would have been an enormous panic when they realised that the Irish girl had been picked up by the Bonnards . |
| 11 | It 's worth mentioning too , that during the year , er , Dr Tim , the general practitioner , who is seconded with er , Social Services , has been doing work on hospital discharge , making sure that the arrangements are , are working , and his reports have been picked up by the respective authorities , and , er , there has er , a sort of action plan has been put together , which is , which is intended to try to improve the er , existing hospital discharge arr arrangement , making sure that people are discharged from hospital and that the er , right type of care is available for them in , in the community . |
| 12 | Disposal of our domestic rubbish is something we tend to forget about once it 's been picked up by the dust-cart . |
| 13 | That was rotten , now Mr Coombes feels there 's something rotten about how it 's been picked up by the planners . |