Example sentences of "pick [adv prt] [noun pl] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not I 'm not blaming Marianne , but she 's sort of picked up things from the media and the media have said oh rejoice attitude , but that particular rejoice was because there were no casualties |
| 2 | I learned the basics of welding at college and have picked up tips from the experts while working on my scrap metal cows at Beamish Tram Shed and a pipe factory in Hebburn on Tyneside . |
| 3 | She thought she saw the Germans still working in the fields , and now they were picking up potatoes from the muddy ground . |
| 4 | As the diesel train came in and people were already picking up suitcases from the platform Moran turned and kissed her as if it were a last good night to all the nights she had come to him . |
| 5 | So if you 're picking up children from the Primary School in Lane Derby , there 's cable-laying going on in Street , Lane and Street . |
| 6 | And I often see her walking past with the children on the way to pick up others from the school . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Girls seem to have worked mainly at the surface picking out stones from the coal . |
| 10 | Nowadays a thoughtful parent will say , ‘ Do n't pick up things from the floor and put them in your mouth ; they are dirty and might make you ill . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Passengers were ordered off as the double-decker picked up casualties from the Welcome Inn at Eltham , London . |
| 13 | News stories overlapped : morning paper headlines took account of the previous evening 's radio and TV stories , and the electronic media picked up items from the daily press ( all these developments , indeed , applied to radio as well as to TV ) . |
| 14 | Ace , you picked up grenades from the shuttle ? ’ |