Example sentences of "pick up and [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er now we , the pensioners , had no choice , we were picked up and put into the new scheme having paid our contributions appropriately to the old scheme rules which were the higher contributions , but only to pick up the new scheme rules that were against our interest . |
| 2 | This indicates how the proponents of ‘ law and order ’ have picked up and run with the ball that was set rolling by the Justice Model , with very different effects from those that the Justice Model 's original advocates desired or expected . |
| 3 | An alternative explanation , however , is that rhythms with a 24-hour period are received from the external world — but that these are picked up and transmitted to the body clock less effectively in premature babies . |
| 4 | In December 1987 two stray Rough Collies , a bitch of about 15 months old and a dog of about 18 months , were picked up and taken to a police station near Oxford . |
| 5 | It could be picked up and thrown to the ground below , but this would be incredibly dangerous . |
| 6 | As the Foreign Office was still trying to maintain the secrecy of my visits , it was determined that on this occasion I would be met at Johannesburg airport and driven by road to the Rhodesian border where I would be picked up and conveyed by the Rhodesian authorities . |
| 7 | Every tiny fragment of fibre , denim and leather was picked up and dropped in the bags . |
| 8 | For a round cake , roll the cake like a wheel along the strip , picking up and pressing on the marzipan as you go . |
| 9 | Making up the slings of timber ready for Tiny Bennion 's crane to pick up and dump on the wharf . |
| 10 | We were always rather intrigued with their eagerness and how they all seemed to pick up and wallow in the atmosphere of this period when it was very trying for the squadron commander if he was not on the evening . |
| 11 | A moment later he felt himself picked up and flung against the wall . |
| 12 | Several thousand species of fish have developed bony connections of some kind to link their swim bladders to the inner ear capsules , so that the vibrations picked up and amplified by the sympathetic resonance of the swim bladder are transmitted to the semicircular canals . |
| 13 | That was the ‘ quotable quote ’ which the media picked up and put into the headlines . |