Example sentences of "to pick [adv prt] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found herself next to Petion , who was trying to pick off men on the nearest freighter . |
| 2 | And I often see her walking past with the children on the way to pick up others from the school . |
| 3 | The forceplate is sensitive enough to pick up forces from the heartbeat of someone standing on it , and robust enough to measure up to five tons of horse trotting past . |
| 4 | The rooms provided were far too small for the thousands of English scholars who were crammed into them , and the originally excessive numbers were heavily augmented by gate-crashing French students who had been hanging around the fringes of the course all week trying to pick up girls at the Lycée doors . |
| 5 | jobs , maybe a good eye to pick up faults in the pattern and that but as for you have to be clever I think it 's senseless . |
| 6 | This is to pick up changes in the cells on the cervix ( neck of the womb ) which might in time go on to become cancer . |
| 7 | ARABLE farmers seeking to optimise returns from their crops will be able to pick up tips at the two-day Cereal ‘ 93 National Cereals and Combinable Crops Event , which gets under way tomorrow . |
| 8 | First it 'll stop off at Brize Norton to pick up supplies for the Tornadoes operating the air exclusion zone . |
| 9 | Republicans are likely to pick up seats in the House , so he might have more leverage there , but this will be counter-balanced by the probable increase in the number of Democratic seats in the Senate . |
| 10 | It 's compact and has a shortwave capacity to pick up stations around the globe . |
| 11 | The Swindon and District bus Company was back to pick up children from the Kingsdown Comprehensive School at Stratton St Margaret today … including twelve year old Louise Fletcher . |
| 12 | It was an hour after sunset and already dark enough to pick out glow-worms in the bracken sparking brightly with a greenish light . |
| 13 | Someone had lit a torch , but its smoky , wavering light only emphasised the hopelessness of trying to pick out individuals in the seething turmoil . |
| 14 | It is not in any way necessary to record the whole of the lesson from either the intellectual or the affective point of view ; experience shows that it is possible to pick out segments of the lesson for detailed observation of either kind , which provide enough information for developmental purposes . |