Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] pick [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The navigator had survived with head injuries but the third crew member was O.K. I signalled to Athens asking them to designate the nearest airfield where I could pick up Brown and White in a Maryland . |
| 2 | I could pick up areas I 'm not happy with but that 's inevitable . |
| 3 | My eyes had become accustomed to the now semi-darkness , so I could pick out shapes about seventy-five yards away . |
| 4 | I remember Stromness dry for I was I used to drive a car then I used to pick up folk and take them to the Pomona and take them back again . |
| 5 | John and I will pick up Erica and see you soon . ’ |
| 6 | ½ mile down you should pick up path that soon becomes well defined and leads to ladder-stile in wall 8 . |
| 7 | There may be two bystanders , but they really , you do n't think they made any particular difference to the way the conversation went , so you might pick out relationships in general , or topic , or something else , but pick out the things that you think being significant in the conversation , and describe them . |
| 8 | ‘ I was hoping you could pick up Eddie from the Blackfriars at one sharp . |
| 9 | Never has an apostrophe , it 's only on a noun that you 're going to do it , so , you could pick up sort of , just little , clues there as to , how to remember what you 're doing . |
| 10 | Generally , if you keep an open mind , and do not become too engrossed in the technicalities , you will pick up danger signals fairly quickly , should they come your way . |
| 11 | you can pick up phone 's that cheap these days , probably for about fifteen quid for er , have a decent phone |
| 12 | You can pick up birds from a mile away . |
| 13 | And if you wan na go somewhere in south east Asia you can pick up flights which are very very cheap . |
| 14 | Ab out the only other interesting facility promised by the manual is that you can pick up UDG 's but it fails to mention where from … |
| 15 | Since you can pick up penalties for stepping out , even inadvertently , it makes sense to get used to sparring in a competition-sized square . |
| 16 | In the same way , ‘ of course we may pick up business if , say , the existing solicitor on one side or the other has no M&A expertise , and that will be a bonus . |
| 17 | ‘ I have been quite happy with our general play , though we could pick up players a little better . |
| 18 | well I said we 'd pick up aunty Jean at twenty too eight |
| 19 | We would pick up supplies and I would continue with the wheelbarrow from where I had left off . |
| 20 | From such an analysis we can pick out causes and action points : we are then in a better position to understand what is happening and to do something about it . |
| 21 | They may pick up ideas almost at random from skimming journals , ideas that may spark new trains of thought or fruitful new cross-connections . |
| 22 | Mostly they 'd make for the West End and meet others like themselves ; they 'd pick up survival information , get oriented within the subculture that they 'd entered , and learn where the free food could be picked up . |
| 23 | Well , well they did try to get a song going once sponsored by the club , it was sung by St Matthews ' choir would you believe , but it , it did n't seem to take off , the football supporters seemed to take very much to their own sort of songs , and they , they 'd pick up songs and chants from other grounds now like the Liverpool song You 'll Never Walk Alone , and they used to sing Away the Lads they used to pick that up from the Newcastle supporters and and |
| 24 | That they would pick up things as quickly or as quick as you have picked them up . |
| 25 | Yes , the fire pumps can , can raise water up to thirty feet from the ground , erm and they , they can pick up water of course from fire hydrants , which is situated all , all , in most streets anyway . |
| 26 | I 'd been wondering when he 'd pick up cards in this game . |
| 27 | Fourthly , he would pick up ideas from the avant-garde of poetry , or of jazz , rather than from the living old masters of the classic school of Paris . |
| 28 | It is tempting to hang on to the launch , thinking that it will pick up speed , but if you do you may arrive almost over the end of the field with very little height or speed — an awkward situation . |
| 29 | Times change and now it 's told Univel Inc it will pick up UnixWare but not before UnixWare proves it can garner some volume outside of Compaq . |
| 30 | For example , if at P the parcel had no motion in the east-west direction across the planet 's surface and the planet 's axial rotation is prograde then it will pick up motion across the grid towards the east , and in moving northwards will end up for example at Q. If it were in the southern hemisphere and moved southward it would also pick up an eastwards movement . |