Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] pick [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are on your GP 's books , then you 'll be picked up by the schemes . |
| 2 | If you are on GP 's books , then you 'll be picked up by the schemes . |
| 3 | By half-term , a local parent with a child at Cedars had offered to put Balbinder on the coach in the morning and let him stay at her house until he could be picked up in the evening . |
| 4 | Such a thing not having happened for many centuries , the idea , even though the smell of cordite had spread across the Channel and could be picked up in the Charing Cross Road , seemed difficult to envisage . |
| 5 | His co-pilot radioed the command centre , requesting a fix in order to enable him to plot the best route back to Britain , or at least to the channel where he could be picked up by the coastguard or a spotter plane . |
| 6 | Many more details of this kind of exploitation of imagery could be picked out of the Miller 's Tale ; the above , however , is sufficient to make the point that the composition of the tale is extremely well organized , wasting no details , and indeed harmonizing the disparate plots in the magnificient denouement of the tale . |
| 7 | When working with mice in an isolator they may be picked up by the base of their tail using a pair of large forceps with rubber sleeves on their tips . |
| 8 | Crumbs of advantage , Bénezet had found , may be picked up in the most unexpected places . |
| 9 | To be completely safe , he activated his automatic call-signal which would be picked up on the ground . |
| 10 | Then , in the late afternoon , Eric would be picked up by the US postal jeep , which carried important military mail from Milan to Rome by way of Verona , Bologna and Florence , and arrive in Rome at first light the following morning . |
| 11 | ‘ And the commission would not agree to postpone payment until slaughter unless we could guarantee that it would be picked up by the holder of the animal when it was ten months old . ’ |
| 12 | My mother and I were terrified that my father would be picked out of the prison and shot . |
| 13 | Once they start to hatch the emerging fry will be picked up in the parent 's mouth and deposited into a pre-dug pit , or under the edge of a rock . |
| 14 | On the secret deal deferring payment for Rover until next March , Lord Young writes : ‘ I can offer three possibilities , in ascending order of risk that the deferment will be picked up by the commission , in which case they might require repayment of the notional interest saved . |
| 15 | This philosophy of helping elderly people return to or stay in their own or small-scale homes will be picked up by the new centres . |
| 16 | Well yes I , no , I would endorse that and , and hopefully perhaps you know the comments that have been made will be picked up by the press . |
| 17 | Names will be picked out of the bag on January 31st , so coupons must reach us by that date . |
| 18 | ‘ But my advice is not to panic and to wait and see how many tickets can be picked up at the last minute . ’ |
| 19 | But now staff are being asked to deposit their used cups in special bins so that they can be picked up by the non profit making Save-a-Cup Recycling Company . |
| 20 | We have n't even got a system , as far as I understand it , that 's compatible , so that it 's possible for me to send my reading lists to , for instance , so they can be picked up by the library . |
| 21 | But right now Eurotunnel shares can be picked up in the market at around £3.60 . |
| 22 | These can be seen on the modern OS maps and the tithe map , and they can be picked out on the ground from changes in level and property boundaries . |
| 23 | A break-point can be picked out from the graph of employees in employment ( Figure 2.1(a) ) : 1966 was the peak year for the total number of jobs in the economy . |
| 24 | The descent of property can sometimes be traced over several generations through the archives of the Court Baron , while individual names can be picked out from the lists of freeholders and customary tenants at the beginning of each meeting of the Court Leet . |