Example sentences of "to pick it [adv prt] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the station employees was following a discarded wrapper across the concrete , trying to pick it up but thwarted every time by a fresh breeze that blew the litter out of his reach . |
| 2 | The company should organise to pick it up or pay for it to be returned to them . |
| 3 | When a worker , coming out of the nest , sees the corpse , its instinct is to pick it up and remove it , for that is part of its regular nest-cleaning duties . |
| 4 | Joan : One day , my mum hates birds , right , so my cat , um , um , killed one and brought it indoors and my mum screamed and my da — my brother had to pick it up and take it outside . |
| 5 | She indicated the glass of milk on the table and moved to pick it up and take it into the kitchen . |
| 6 | They ought to be made to pick it up and eat it . |
| 7 | When we are very young we see a fluffy kitten as something especially soft and cuddly and we have a strong desire to pick it up and hold it tight . |
| 8 | I ca n't see you 'll have to pick it up and show me I 'm not climbing over the chair to look show me . |
| 9 | She looked at the telephone on her desk and for a minute was tempted to pick it up and ask for David Fairfax 's number . |
| 10 | If I am following someone who drops their wallet then it would be idle to deny that I have a duty to pick it up and return it . |
| 11 | I was going to pick it up and put it outside again when a woman , a psychiatrist 's wife , stopped me . |
| 12 | And then we had to pick it up and put it near Cider and Cider ate it . |
| 13 | Cuddle it right , it 's wrapped up in about six layers of erm whatever , are you just going to pick it up and cuddle it or are you going to do anything with all those layers ? |
| 14 | So you had to pick it up and carry it outside ? |
| 15 | Erm are they going to pick it up and set it up |
| 16 | When you observe leaf-roll , it does n't take a moment to pinch the leaf firmly between finger and thumb or , better still , to pick it off and burn it . |
| 17 | They 're trying to pick it off and doing it on the big grass . |