Example sentences of "pick up a [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know the kind of thing I mean : the chickens dart into the mêlée , pick up a morsel of food , and then charge off to eat it in comparative quiet . |
| 2 | We say well pick up a bit of experience here |
| 3 | All he had to do was stroll down to Underwoods and pick up a bit of dynercaprol and potassium chloride . |
| 4 | One by one , punters disappear into the doorway , pick up a couple of dime bags of coke , and move off . |
| 5 | If you just pick up a sherd of pottery , okay , that really by itself ca n't tell you an awful lot . |
| 6 | Pick up a chunk of coal . |
| 7 | pick up a load of beer mats . |
| 8 | ‘ Dragging also depends on size , so if I pick up a bunch of stuff I get a lower dragging sound than if I pick up just one . |
| 9 | ‘ Pick up a piece of chicken and all the flavours of that dish are on that piece of chicken . |
| 10 | Yes , well these , all wasps of course , er tend to er hit the fruit juice at this time of the year , and that fruit juice is very often fermenting , and you get a particularly er waspish reaction , er naturally , when er somebody goes to pick up a fallen apple or windfall pear , and they pick up a handful of wasp , inadvertently , and I think this year , particularly with a shortage of water , more wasps of all species have been driven to attack fruit , er and are feeding on the er fruit juice , much of which is fermenting . |
| 11 | To help , just contact Sight Savers at 21 The Strand , Bromsgrove , Worcestershire B61 8AB ( tel : 0527 579226 ) or pick up a leaflet from Sound Control at 61 Jamaica Street , Glasgow G1 4NN for a sponsorship form , and then go along to either the Birmingham Town Hall on Sunday September the 20th between 2.00pm and 4.00pm , or our Scottish Music Show at the SECC in Glasgow at the same time . |