Example sentences of "[adv] picked [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was eventually picked up by another driver . |
| 2 | A long clearence from defence , eventually picked up by Gary Bull , who slid past a slippery Anderson , judged it well past the keeper to poke home his 18th of the season . |
| 3 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for the effects of cold . |
| 4 | The boys were eventually picked up by a small boat and were taken by ambulance to Nobles Hospital in Douglas where they were treated for cold . |
| 5 | •The letters and telephone calls were so numerous that Curtis Strange feels he owes golf fans an apology for an outburst of profanity , inadvertently picked up by a television microphone during an American event this summer . |
| 6 | The local rubbish-tip near the roadside is constantly picked over by gulls , starlings , crows and ravens . |
| 7 | The State Department in Washington still must decide what to do with the migrants , apparently picked up by the Panamanian-registered East Wood from an island off China to be smuggled to Hawaii . |
| 8 | ORIGINALLY ON the German Rough Mix label and now sensibly picked up by Sheffield 's Warp label , this one 's been around for a while now and has been described as potentially the next Gat Decor . |
| 9 | However , because deprivation is also associated with excess mortality some of this is already picked up by including standardised mortality ratio . |
| 10 | As we have already seen , if speech is to be recorded clearly it is best picked up by an extension microphone positioned close to the speaker . |
| 11 | Smith , managed to scramble out and were soon picked up by the destroyer ‘ Foresight ’ . |
| 12 | With a variety of adults exercising control of children during the school day including class teacher , teacher on playground duty and lunch time supervisors it is possible that patterns of repeated bullying are not picked up by adults . |
| 13 | An extreme example would be an instance when there are signs of child abuse and the cues are not picked up by people outside the home setting . |
| 14 | He was not picked up by A.S.R. largely due to the delay in allowing them to put to sea . |
| 15 | In other cases the particular translation of a sign may fail to show similarity : the Danish and British signs for WOMAN are different , but the British sign LADY resembles the Danish sign WOMAN ; such information is not picked up by this method of data collection . |
| 16 | This can result in errors which can be costly if not picked up by the tenant 's solicitor . |
| 17 | ( He was later picked up by the Italians and made a prisoner . ) |
| 18 | Only six out of the school 's 260 pupils turned up at the school , and four of them were later picked up by their parents and returned home . |
| 19 | However , if we do not like being judged by an external tribunal , if we do not like our citizens being interrogated by foreign judges about acts committed in the United Kingdom , if we do not like our Acts of Parliament and our internal administration being scrupulously picked over by a European Commission , if we do not like the relations between the Crown and its possessions being altered over our heads , the remedy is in our own hands . |
| 20 | The new relaxed Downing Street style was instantly picked up by the Cabinet and greatly appreciated . |
| 21 | It was also picked up by Dr Dobbs ' sister publication Unix Magazin in Germany . |
| 22 | These slow waves pervade the head to the extent that they are also picked up by the EOG electrodes , just as K complexes are . |
| 23 | This is often picked up by the programmers , who then make the system more secure . ’ |
| 24 | Some were immediately picked up by the demons , whilst others managed again and again to risk their lives before falling to the persistent attacks of the creatures from hell . |
| 25 | It was immediately picked up by the Government , which launched a competition in July 1991 between both yards to become Britain 's sole nuclear yard . |
| 26 | There is no official collection because it is immediately picked over by a series of scavengers — first adults , then children , then dogs and cats . |
| 27 | ‘ The orchestra is hardly heard at the back of the stage , where singers are , so the beat can not be reliably picked up by ear : instead the singers must use their eyes . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | These molecules are then picked up by receptor proteins on the surface of the second cell . |
| 30 | It was just on a minute on page seventy-nine , I think we want to get the support of local M Ps , one a has I think , has been just indicated , is contradictory , it might be better to say , ‘ although the document indicated that local authorities would be expected to undertake extra , an extra , or extra duties , the resources needed are , no indication was given of how there would be extra resources , or something like that , you see it 's contradictory at the moment , it says there 's no indication of the role , and then says that they would need resources , and actually if you look through the document , you will see from time-to-time it is indicated what local authorities are expected to do , for instance recycling of litter and the lot , and I think that that might be actually picked up by M P's and say , ‘ Well , what actually have you , do you mean to say ’ , well , what we 're really saying , are we not , that here is an indication of things that we 're expected to do , but as usual , of course , the government has n't indicated what erm where the resources were coming from . |