Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] picked [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This brief article has necessarily picked out only a few aspects of diamond . |
| 2 | A skill he has obviously picked up under the guidance of Dalglish . |
| 3 | Jackie Gardner takes exhibits to horticultural shows all over the country and the nursery has just picked up a Gold Medal at Chelsea . |
| 4 | It has already picked up Meccano , Trans Avia airlines and Swan Vestas . |
| 5 | The networking company has signed an agreement with Hudson , Massachusetts-based Gradient Technologies Inc , which has already picked up support from the likes of IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Sun Microsystems Inc and Unix System Laboratories Inc . |
| 6 | In addition to his share of the £136,000 prize fund for his match with Timman , he has already picked up a share ( with Timman ) of around £500,000 from sponsorship by the manufacturers of the Mephisto Chess Computer . |
| 7 | By the time she 's thirty — and Eleanor was thirty in spite of appearances — a woman has usually picked up her share of married men . |
| 8 | Markham , Ontario-based Geac Computer Corp — which has been promising an acquisition a month over the next 12 months , got two under its belt for the same month in May : it has bought the UK end of struggling MAI Systems Corp , MAI ( UK ) Ltd , and has also picked up Tekserv Computer Services Ltd . |
| 9 | It has also picked up Jeff Spirer , formerly in charge of the Intel/IBM relationship at Intel , to be NextStep 486 marketing manager . |
| 10 | Sun 's biggest US distributor Access Graphics has taken on Hummingbird 's HCL-exceed PC X servers which offers a Sun interface with X Windows applications and can run on top of PC-NFS : IBM Canada has also picked up the product to run off networked hosts like the RS/6000 . |
| 11 | Dr Steve Harris , who studies foxes in Bristol , has often picked up scabies , or mange . |
| 12 | The Wall Street Journal has now picked up on that story we reported last month that Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc are working together to build the Macintosh System 7.1 look and feel atop Novell 's MS-DOS-compatible DR DOS to run on Intel Corp iAPX-86-based machines ( UX No 429 ) . |
| 13 | Meantime the Wall Street Journal has now picked up on that story we reported last month that Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc are working together to build the Macintosh System 7.1 look and feel atop Novell 's MS-DOS-compatible DR DOS to run on iAPX-86-based machines ( CI No 2,133 ) . |
| 14 | Although the period from Christmas to the end of February — MMT 's accounting period for the first six months of its fiscal year ends then — was very quiet because a lot of orders were completed around that time , Haines says trading has now picked up again . |
| 15 | He 'd obviously picked up a few tips from the paperbacks , because he spun these stories out like a kid pulling on chewing-gum . |
| 16 | No we 'd just picked up Christine from her friend 's house and I had sort of half a dozen people |
| 17 | Soldiers had since picked up the habit of wine-drinking in France during the war and upon returning to England had educated the middle classes , further increasing the popularity of Champagne in the immediate post-war years . |
| 18 | And though it had struck her as a slightly odd remark for a man on the brink of marriage to make , she most probably would n't have thought any more about it if he had responded to the way she had light-heartedly picked up on it with his usual unassailable self-assurance . |
| 19 | By today 's deadline Green King had only picked up forty six per cent of Morland 's shares … |
| 20 | The beasts had obviously picked up their scent and were now following their trail . |
| 21 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she answered , hiding beneath a pleasant smile of her own as she went to the desk , that her heartbeats had suddenly picked up speed . |
| 22 | He had foolishly picked up the trolleys from a nearby supermarket and threw them . |
| 23 | Someone had already picked up all the spilled groceries with the exception of a crushed box of crackers . |
| 24 | Cruise had already picked up £8 million and Moore was paid Pounds 1.5 million for A Few Good Men . |
| 25 | In fact , I had already picked up quite a lot about ‘ Lucky ’ Lucan and what had happened . |
| 26 | Irina however had not picked up the seriousness of his last words . |
| 27 | Fairbrother had not picked up the emphasis in that suggestion , and Richard decided to let it go . |
| 28 | Short hypotheses looked more promising than long ones simply because more of their score was an estimate ; they had not picked up actual shortfall . |
| 29 | Erm what 's the other thing , Yeah the place that I 've just picked up erm a part time job , has said I can record as much as I want there . |
| 30 | ‘ We 've just picked up a message on the Miletti family line , dottore . |