Example sentences of "[adj] to pick up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Our message is that there has never been a time like this to pick up a bargain , ’ a spokeswoman said . |
| 2 | One whiff of a piece of clothing and the appropriate commands , and off goes Fido , nose to the ground , casting this way and that to pick up the same scent . |
| 3 | The ideal working dress would , therefore , be one in which you could reach up high to bring down the best china , bend down low to pick up the dropped toy , feel comfortable in for walking around the park and pushing a pram or playing ball , not worry about if baby food was deposited on it , move around in easily with a baby on your hip and cover up totally for rolling out pastry or helping with painting . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've found that in Berlin it 's not polite to pick up the phone and offer a painting . |
| 5 | It is very easy to pick up a meaning from a metaphor which was perhaps not the one intended . |
| 6 | It is surprisingly easy to pick up the physical tension and the negative emotions of others if you are at all sensitive . |
| 7 | Many of those present had found it hard to pick up the thread of what he was saying and instead had thought with a shiver : " Needles driven into your belly ! |
| 8 | The Sports Council was quick to pick up an interest in this group in the early 1980s when they included people up to the age of 59 in their target groups to encourage increased participation in sporting activities . |
| 9 | One of the big British cable-makers — BICC , GEC or STC — looks likely to pick up the £20 million order . |
| 10 | Is that not sort of I mean , I was n't aware that anybody was n't supposed to pick up a fire appliance or not . |
| 11 | Er Ma'am I think it would be helpful to pick up a point you made in relation to the R Royal Society of Birds , Royal Soci R S P B. |
| 12 | One old chap wrapped his set in aluminium cooking foil and put clingfilm over the screen , thinking the detector van would be unable to pick up the signals . |
| 13 | So it was that — ill-equipped , ignoring all warnings , and unable to pick up the BBC World Service on our radio — we confronted El Jocoso without guides and in a thunderstorm . |
| 14 | Should you be successful , you will be able to pick up a bounty on each of them . ’ |
| 15 | Being able to pick up a colour and press it on coloured paper was all very exciting . |
| 16 | It was another six months before I was able to pick up a gun again . |
| 17 | For in the company of over 200 or so other eager enthusiasts , I was able to pick up a few interesting little pieces . |
| 18 | Well I hope you 've been able to pick up a bit of something but I 'm not very good at it myself cos old days and old times . |
| 19 | You ca n't contact the ‘ Bears ’ direct on that rig but they might just be able to pick up an emergency signal . |
| 20 | But worse still , if the pilot is able to pick up the dropped wing after the initial swing , because of the acceleration the controls suddenly become effective , and this often results in the other wing touching just as the aircraft becomes airborne . |
| 21 | It was good fortune for BR to be able to pick up the 1938 survivors — only retained into the 1980s to bail out the Northern Line from a vast increase in traffic . |
| 22 | So , even if bitten or scratched by a cat that had somehow smeared its teeth or claws with infected blood from its sores , the human victim would still not be able to pick up the disease . |
| 23 | Everybody says , ‘ Oh , you won £44,000 in the world championships , you must 've been really pleased with that , ’ but it 's not just the money , it 's being able to pick up the trophy at the end — that 's the nice thing . |
| 24 | From these results , it would appear that the younger children were not able to pick up the linguistic cues to the deductive/empirical distinction contained in the experimenter 's questions . |
| 25 | They were the lucky ones , able to pick up the pieces of a warm family life that they feared had gone forever . |
| 26 | Judges ought , when they are pre-reading a case , to be able to pick up the skeleton argument , and they ought actually to be able to start with the skeleton argument , which would tell them in very succinct form the background facts and what the points are . |
| 27 | This hopefully will cause them a fixture congestion around April/May with us hopefully been able to pick up the pieces . |
| 28 | Both his sisters kissed him — another first — and Kitty had to have her hand prised out of his before Charlie was able to pick up the brown paper parcel that contained all his worldly goods . |
| 29 | yeah , to see if that car 's been sold , stolen or whatever and yet a solicitor come he said your solicitor will be able to pick up the phone , take you through the right channels , see if he 's sold that car , he has n't sold the car , who 's he sold it |
| 30 | but all d all different meanings and they could pick out and I said well erm it would er be handy for foreign people to have a speaking dictionary because they would be able to pick up the pronunciation of that word would n't they ? |