Example sentences of "[noun] picking up [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aunt Margaret was bird-like herself , in her hither-and-thither movements and a certain gesture she had of nodding her head like a sparrow picking up crumbs . |
| 2 | He says that they 've had a three man gang picking up peoples rubbish for the last seven years . |
| 3 | My wilful grasp upon it had been entirely unproblematic , as sure as neat fingers picking up pins , or knitting , and then casting off the atomic stitches of the material world . |
| 4 | He felt around inside , his long fingers picking up scraps of parchment . |
| 5 | In agricultural districts school attendance registers showed poor attendance at harvest time when girls of ten or eleven were set to work picking up stones in the fields . |
| 6 | This guy has a business picking up fossils and selling them ? |
| 7 | Could we have a board game called The Yorkshire Ripper where you throw dice to travel around the red-light areas of Yorkshire picking up points for prostitutes encountered on the way ? |
| 8 | As far a treating their own fans goes , well Elland Road is n't exactly the Ritz , but I 've never had problems picking up tickets etc either . |
| 9 | We saw lots of people picking up stones erm from around , by the edges of the roads and making little piles and they would then get picked up by lorries and I should think they 'd get a , a couple of pence through doing that . |
| 10 | The carrying of hand coils is only appropriate on snow arêtes ( as explained above ) , or on rock ridges of uneven difficulty , where party speed is increased by members picking up coils on the easy sections . |
| 11 | With Alex James as the pivot picking up clearances from defence and passing immediately to the front-runners , Arsenal could have the ball in their opponents ' net only seconds after being packed in their own goal area . |
| 12 | In contrast , a pleasant summer scene in 1984 along the Golden Mile , with a new livery railcoach picking up passengers at Central Pier . |
| 13 | Niki Lauda displayed courage beyond all recognition in 1976 when , six weeks after being given the Last Rites , he was back behind the wheel of his Ferrari picking up points in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza . |
| 14 | He walked all over Lyne picking up blocks of red sandstone ashlar and pointing out the old grooves and cramp-holes . |