Example sentences of "[prep] be pick [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Ormerod , a geology lecturer at the Open University , has been held in Oradea , Romania , for the past three days , after being picked up at the main crossing point into Hungary . |
| 2 | With so many cables fairly close together it is easy to see why the side stitches remain as loops instead of being picked up with the latch tool at the sides of the cables . |
| 3 | The returning echoes are believed to be picked up through the fatty interior of the lower jaw . |
| 4 | Nor was she unaware of the interest Matt and Silas took in her movements , having caught glances passing between them as they paused to watch her fold the table napkins round the knives and forks which were left in readiness to be picked up from the end of the table . |
| 5 | Am I going to some strange hospital with him to see his dad , or am I going to wander around Bristol all day waiting to be picked up by the police or my poor darling anxious parents ? |
| 6 | Any ferret can carry the transmitting device that provides the signal to be picked up by the hand-held locator . |
| 7 | It stands in splendid isolation near the moorland road to Bowes and it was there that merchants and farmers would leave butter eggs and other foodstuffs to be picked up by the afflicted . |
| 8 | Erm there are a number of matters which need to be picked up by the county council as a result of requests which we made on Friday and also you will note that a number of additional papers have been laid on the table . |
| 9 | As well as X400 , X25 , Async and Bisync , it is now also offering Odette File Transfer Protocol , enabling dropped sessions to be picked up in the middle of transmission . |
| 10 | Lack of proper planning and provision is likely to be picked up in the review of day care services which local authorities are obliged to conduct every three years ( s19 ) . |
| 11 | The first 150 names to be picked out of the bag after the closing date , April 15 1991 , will win . |
| 12 | Some Sutton pupils expressed worries about being picked on by the ‘ bigger ones ’ and were concerned about going into the same playground . |
| 13 | We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place |