Example sentences of "pick [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 're so many wild oranges on the island that when they 're ripe the boys and girls go out in gangs , pick them by the thousand , squeeze out all the juice and let it ferment in casks until it 's ready for a week-long celebration . |
| 2 | He 's picked me for the Jack Gannon , and I 'm four months under age , and he says Hermia 's really improved . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It 's only a bunch of flowers , ’ he said , pleased with her response , ‘ although I can guarantee that I have bought them , and have n't picked them on the way over . |
| 4 | I assumed he 'd just picked you for the resemblance . ’ |
| 5 | The muted notes which are found at the beginning of bar 7 should be produced by damping the strings at the seventh position ( approx ) and then picking them with a gentle up-stroke using your r/hand index finger . |
| 6 | Before he was very , very bored , no challenges for him , nothing to do , erm , this guy 's been at director level , er , trouble-shooting for large abattoirs , going in and sorting problems out , and picking them off the ground , so he 's had loads of challenges , erm , the company 's just so slow for him . |
| 7 | picking them from the muddy ground beneath tall trees . |
| 8 | It is now illegal to pick them without a licence . |
| 9 | I mean last week the choppers werny even gettin in to pick them off the Rigs what with the gales and that so basically I 've just got to expect him when I see him . |
| 10 | Three years and some months since leaving him , I had satisfied myself that , in picking me as a wife , he had done no more than is required to select a fruit from a dish with the prospect of some fleeting juiciness , but no lasting nourishment . |
| 11 | Huy stooped to pick something off the ground , that lay three-quarters hidden in the rough yellow grass that grew around the sides of the stone . |
| 12 | Despair overtakes me as soon as I see the dreaded trolleys jammed together ; I always manage to pick one with a crab-like action ; my heart sinks and culinary amnesia sets in somewhere between the tinned fruit and dried pasta . |
| 13 | He pounced on the Scottish selectors for not picking him for the 4 × 100 metres relay team for Edinburgh and , so it said in one of the tabloids , he was now ready to meet Linford Christie . |
| 14 | ‘ Why do n't you give that piece of rubbish to Oxfam ? ’ he said , picking it off the mantelpiece roughly . |
| 15 | Er and to be able to pick it off the machine at the end of the day you know , as a first class , simple object at , at a competitive price . |
| 16 | Someone asks me what cherries look like and 1 pick one from the basket and say " This is a cherry " . |
| 17 | Wright 's last appearance for his country was as a sub against Hungary in Budapest in May , and Graham promised : ‘ If England pick him for the game against Norway next month he 'll join the squad ’ . |
| 18 | Trust you , Dwight , to pick a winner , and pick him before the rest of us have heard of him ! |
| 19 | ‘ Just cruising down the street , see one you fancy and literally pick her off the sidewalk — wallop , in the back of the truck . ’ |
| 20 | Clever Trevor must be the most over rated player in Scotland ( except for Paul McStay ) and it surprises me how Taylor picks him for the England squad yet does n't give big Mark the nod . |
| 21 | It tastes delicious and I pick it to the bone like a meticulous cat . |
| 22 | And we 'd dredge 'em up and they and they used to pick 'em up on a bucket , go in there , pick 'em on a bucket and of course instead of them going over , the tumbler , into the harbour , we used to have to put a chain round and 'em off , cos if not they 'd have gone over them , tumbler and damaged the chute . |
| 23 | He might be my best friend but he will treat me the same as any other player and will only pick me for a Test if I am bowling well . |
| 24 | For one thing , he says , ‘ we can pick them at the peak of flavour maturity . |
| 25 | D' you wan na pick them off the front at the end ? |
| 26 | However , once again I strongly suggest that you grow a collection of wild flowers in your own garden rather than pick them from the countryside and assist in depleting the stocks ! |
| 27 | You 're working and you 're not bugging anyone and you turn yourself in — they do n't come and pick you off the street — and still they do this . ’ |
| 28 | Zack shrugged , picked one in the middle — approximately a thousand stones out of the 25,000 on the table . |
| 29 | After the receptionist picked herself off the floor she told me I had better call in the fire brigade . ’ |
| 30 | The selectors kept faith and picked him for the first Test at Edgbaston , where he bowled 42 overs without trouble , taking four wickets in his maiden Test , which England won , fairly comfortably , but 100 runs . |