Example sentences of "pick [pers pn] up [conj] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of you has picked it up and put it in your pocket ’ ! |
| 2 | What if you camp on to somebody and then their phone becomes free , and this starts ringing , and by the time you 've picked it up and answered it , they 've made another outgoing call , so they 're busy a second time ? |
| 3 | Cos I remember , I remember picking it up and reading it , I was out in the garden at the time . |
| 4 | And after several attempts to break the shell open by picking it up and dropping it onto the rocks , well that did n't work , so the bird picked it up and then from a about a height of twenty feet it dropped it onto the rocks below . |
| 5 | Yeah , this guy comes home from work and his wife 's got the chair and she 's picking it up and taking it around like this |
| 6 | ‘ This is for you , ’ he said , picking it up and offering it to her . |
| 7 | When a worker , coming out of the nest , sees the corpse , its instinct is to pick it up and remove it , for that is part of its regular nest-cleaning duties . |
| 8 | Joan : One day , my mum hates birds , right , so my cat , um , um , killed one and brought it indoors and my mum screamed and my da — my brother had to pick it up and take it outside . |
| 9 | She indicated the glass of milk on the table and moved to pick it up and take it into the kitchen . |
| 10 | They ought to be made to pick it up and eat it . |
| 11 | When we are very young we see a fluffy kitten as something especially soft and cuddly and we have a strong desire to pick it up and hold it tight . |
| 12 | If I am following someone who drops their wallet then it would be idle to deny that I have a duty to pick it up and return it . |
| 13 | I was going to pick it up and put it outside again when a woman , a psychiatrist 's wife , stopped me . |
| 14 | And then we had to pick it up and put it near Cider and Cider ate it . |
| 15 | Cuddle it right , it 's wrapped up in about six layers of erm whatever , are you just going to pick it up and cuddle it or are you going to do anything with all those layers ? |
| 16 | So you had to pick it up and carry it outside ? |
| 17 | Erm are they going to pick it up and set it up |
| 18 | The binder can then shuffle down the wide row gathering a sheaf onto his insteps ; he then picks it up and binds it with straw or twine ( see Figure 11 ) . |
| 19 | ( He picks it up and puts it in his bag . |
| 20 | like little sugar bits and they pick it up and take it back to nest |
| 21 | If you come across a taxi token , pick it up and use it for a free taxi ride to any part of the city . |
| 22 | I pick it up and brush it over my hand . |
| 23 | Or you can select it and then say bind er and then deselect it and then pick it up and move it . |
| 24 | Pick it up and give it to mummy please ? |
| 25 | Pick it up and give it to mummy please . |
| 26 | It was then replayed almost nightly by someone with a grudge against the Royals so that amateur scanners would pick it up and make it public . |
| 27 | ‘ This book : if you lose it somewhere , someone will pick it up and return it to you . |
| 28 | ‘ Never mind , ’ she said kindly , ‘ maybe someone else will pick it up and bring it back . ’ |
| 29 | If it does not pass through the House before the general election , the next Labour Government will pick it up and enact it . |
| 30 | I should pick it up and bite it with your teeth if it 's getting too difficult . |