Example sentences of "[be] picking [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , British taxpayers are picking up the £60 million bill and we ought to be told a lot more about why it happened and why so much damage was caused . |
| 2 | Governments are picking out the bits of the plan they do not like . |
| 3 | This time he seems to be picking up the signals of some approaching hostility towards him . |
| 4 | ‘ You wo n't be paying for inappropriate placements and you wo n't be picking up the bill for carers later . |
| 5 | Ninety per cent of people in residential care in Newcastle are on income support and the average time to death or discharge in residential care is three years , so his department will be picking up the whole burden by the third year . |
| 6 | We should n't be picking up the tab . |
| 7 | I can see that you 'll soon be picking up the reins . |
| 8 | What you 'll find , you 'll find in here that it 'll just be picking up the budgies mainly . |
| 9 | I 'm picking up the PR material in a couple of weeks . |
| 10 | Between them they were picking up the power line , the hoses for oxygen and wastes . |
| 11 | Erm when we were picking up the trunk off erm Uncle Alan who 's on on the beginning of the fishing |
| 12 | Univel Inc , the Novell Inc/Unix System Labs joint venture for Destiny , is picking up the charter for recruiting the all-important software for the soon-to-debut desktop operating system from USL and this week will announce an early access programme that will get binary code into independent software developers ' hands immediately . |
| 13 | Is not the truth that practically everyone was told , ’ Do n't worry — social security is picking up the bill . ’ |
| 14 | Mark Bottomley is picking up the pieces of his life after being beaten around the head with a piece of scaffolding . |
| 15 | Milton Keynes is picking up the pieces and pleased that at least no one lost a life . |
| 16 | Tommy 's picking up the gun from the living room floor . |
| 17 | Er , you look she falls , er , two or three rush to her , the stall holder fetches a chair , they 're all round her his son 's picking up the bit she slipped on . |
| 18 | Five minutes into the second half , the parry was from the boy was looking for his first goal , and it 's picking up the pieces for his second of the afternoon . |
| 19 | She was picking up the knack . |
| 20 | Susan , an unwonted flush on her pale cheeks , was picking up the wet things out of the grate . |
| 21 | She was having to repeat herself , and even then Lucy was picking up the wrong costume or completely mistaking what had been said . |
| 22 | It was a stand-off , he was picking up the Yankee jargon . |
| 23 | It would be nice to think their affair had meant something to him , and after Seville he was picking up the pieces of his life and had found happiness with another woman . |
| 24 | It was picking out the spaces through the trees and making enchanting patterns among the bronzes and browns and greens , and occasionally highlighting spiders ' webs , laden with moisture . |