Example sentences of "picked up by a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The refugees were picked up by a convoy of buses at the Austrian border . |
| 2 | All the bills were picked up by a consortium of local banks and newspapers . |
| 3 | The flashing light is then picked up by a sensor at the distant end and the information converted first into a corresponding electrical pattern then into sound using an earpiece or loudspeaker . |
| 4 | The pulsing light is picked up by a sensor at the distant end , converted into on-off electrical signals , amplified , fed to an digital-to-analogue converter and the information used to operate an earpiece , loudspeaker or other output device . |
| 5 | They would use incendiary-cum-explosive bombs to disable the aircraft and then retire to a pre-arranged rendezvous point in the desert where they could be picked up by a patrol of the Long Range Desert Group ( LRDG ) . |
| 6 | Once this had been accomplished , the various parties would proceed on foot to an agreed rendezvous in the desert , about forty-five miles inland , where they would be picked up by a patrol of the Long Range Desert Group . |
| 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 . |