Example sentences of "pick up " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Pick up a piece of chicken and all the flavours of that dish are on that piece of chicken . |
| 2 | ‘ Can I lend you some at least until you pick up your wages tomorrow ? ’ |
| 3 | Time is always well spent when practising steep turns : not the classroom type where you pick up more speed and then go into the turn , but the sort you might use for thermalling . |
| 4 | For more information , pick up leaflet Number 4 , ‘ Employment rights for the expectant mother ’ , at your local unemployment benefit office . |
| 5 | If you want to know more about these benefits and how to claim them , pick up leaflet MV.11 at your social security office or most post offices . |
| 6 | Pick up leaflet N1.17A , and claim form BM.4 , at your social security office . |
| 7 | Pick up leaflet CH.1 at your social security office . |
| 8 | Pick up leaflet CH.11 at your social security office . |
| 9 | Whimper like a whipped puppy , Jay , have a drink and pick up the pieces . |
| 10 | Even as you begin to draw back the snap punch , pick up your front foot and set it down diagonally forwards and outwards , using a thrusting action from the rear leg to cover ground . |
| 11 | The three boys come directly from a battleship when they pick up three girls from the street . |
| 12 | He was among the first to exploit the fact that living nerve fibres pick up and transport protein molecules like the enzyme horseradish peroxidase , whose presence is easily demonstrated and so acts as a marker . |
| 13 | TRANSPORT ‘ Did you know that lorry drivers who pick up hitch-hikers have 73 per cent fewer accidents than those who do n't ? ’ |
| 14 | The most common reason for a biomusical is opportunism : take a star like Judy Garland or John Lennon , and you pick up a hit title and a hit score ready-made . |
| 15 | Pick up the ball and run around with it ? |
| 16 | If you pick up a handful of ordinary package brochures , America will be there : Crystal , Inghams , Intasun , Neilson and Thomson all have new or expanded American programmes . |
| 17 | Later pick up track through caravan site but leave it at cattlegrid ( signposted Coast Path ) , descending to Branscombe Mouth . |
| 18 | Go over footbridge and pick up enclosed path , then lane into Branscombe village centre . |
| 19 | She 'd come in , pick up a rubber skirt and say , half you ziss in one leetle size bigger ? |
| 20 | The British and other European countries knew that this would allow US airlines to fly from the USA , pick up passengers in Britain or in Europe , and fly on to any other destination , which would mean complete US domination of civil aviation . |
| 21 | British flights to the Caribbean and South America , and across the Pacific , could now use American airports and pick up traffic there . |
| 22 | Instead he would walk down to the river , take the path to the bridge and pick up his Police Review at Braddan 's on his way home . |
| 23 | ( As suggested in Chapter 1 , ‘ larks ’ tend to be at the lower end of the range and ‘ owls ’ towards the top of it. ) • Where are the sense organs that pick up such external factors ? |
| 24 | The young officer was told to stop complaining , pick up his weapon and complete the course . |
| 25 | The barbed needles pick up tiny threads and pump them through the fabric , bringing back more threads from the base fabric and welding them to the appliqué . |
| 26 | In a desperately competitive climate , where anyone bright and competent could go down the road and pick up a better paid job with kinder hours and more congenial working conditions from someone like British Telecom , the railways ran a service dependent on people who belonged to a narrow and inbred working culture , with outdated procedures of training and promotion , and an institutional reliance on overtime working , whose wholly disgraceful dimensions are symbolised by the fact that maximum weekly hours were only recently cut to 72 hours a week . |
| 27 | ‘ If I pick up something and drag it it makes this white noise sound , ’ Gaver demonstrates . |
| 28 | ‘ Dragging also depends on size , so if I pick up a bunch of stuff I get a lower dragging sound than if I pick up just one . |
| 29 | ‘ Dragging also depends on size , so if I pick up a bunch of stuff I get a lower dragging sound than if I pick up just one . |
| 30 | There was one about lesbian leanings in a girls ' school : Put on your navy knicks , Pick up your hockey sticks … |