Example sentences of "[noun] picks up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The monitor picks up the amount of ultraviolet or UV rays coming from the sun . |
| 2 | The minibus picks up the Inspirals party outside the hotel in Japantown , San Francisco at 10.30 the next morning , a Sunday . |
| 3 | The new act picks up the Warnock comments that really the majority of children can probably be erm accommodated in ordinary schools , but there will always be a need for special schools , and in fact they do mention some proportions . |
| 4 | The NHS picks up the tab , ’ he says . |
| 5 | Constantine picks up the thread . |
| 6 | GRIPPING SCENE : Proud pop picks up the tot he once refused to carry |
| 7 | The microphone picks up the surrounding sounds and feeds them to the amplifier . |
| 8 | One advantage of using a hearing-aid is in hearing one 's own voice ‘ from the outside ’ — the aid microphone picks up the voice of the user as well as voices of other people . |
| 9 | The first player in each team picks up the feather by inhaling through the straw . |
| 10 | The embroidery-edged bed linen picks up the delicate decoration as does the appliqué bedcover , while the plain brown walls add warmth and lend a strong contrast . |
| 11 | Vic picks up the receiver . |
| 12 | If the person picks up the keys , then he or she can become the next sleeping beauty . |
| 13 | The back person picks up the ball and runs to the front . |
| 14 | Every day , at 10am , Grachev picks up the telephone to Yeltsin and speaks for five minutes . |
| 15 | Rainbow picks up the cue : |
| 16 | The Quartet picks up the novel where Thru leaves it , dissected and decentred in vitro , and returns it to the social and historical context out of which it arose . |
| 17 | The choice theory picks up the libertarian strand , which insists that all state power must be legitimated by consent , whereas the ‘ harm to interests ’ theory taps the slender source of Millian liberalism to defend a broadening of the scope of contractual obligations . |
| 18 | John Ward picks up the story … |
| 19 | The board picks up the signal , and translates it into digital data , which is then stored as a data file on the computer 's hard disk . |
| 20 | Hampden Babylon picks up the challenge , but shifts the spotlight away from Hollywood and its tinsel stardom to the less glamorous football grounds of Scotland , where a cast list of rogues , reprobates and reckless drivers star in the most squalid film never made . |
| 21 | The phototransistor picks up the light emitted by the l.e.d. in the transmitter section and converts it into an analogue electrical signal . |
| 22 | Final sentence ( which sums up the paragraph ) : ( 4 ) In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald picks up the theme : the valley of ashes is the general locale , all the characters of the story have to pass through it . |
| 23 | Tommy picks up the Magnum and fires it twice at the stereo , one bullet in each cassette deck . |
| 24 | Fielding picks up the checks . |
| 25 | Fielding picks up the cheques , too . |
| 26 | From Deleuze and Guattari , Lecercle picks up the idea of the potential violence of the institution of language which , as they point out , is not so much a neutral entity that can best be analysed by looking at " normal " ( i.e. declarative ) sentences as a series of other people 's slogans organised into a system of power-relations . |
| 27 | Iain picks up the stereo and walks out . |
| 28 | Classic examples of awkward questions are the salesman 's special dread , as the interviewer picks up the telephone directory and says , ‘ Sell me this ’ , and the totally unpredictable , ‘ What star sign are you ? ’ |
| 29 | Hong Kong Special Report : After the traumas , the colony picks up the pieces |
| 30 | When one of the firm 's 600 taxis passes within 600 metres , its receiver picks up the code , stores it in memory , and simultaneously relays it back to base . |