Sentence examples for forward to pick up from inspiring English sources

Idiom

To pick up the tab.

To pay a bill.

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Her mother is playing doubles now; Mitz can spot her yellow visor as she leans forward to pick up a ball near the baseline.

An oversized internal spring absorbed the remaining momentum of the bolt before it reached the back of the gun; the spring then propelled the bolt forward to pick up a new cartridge.

When it's her turn, Maria is called forward to pick up a brown paper bag filled with essentials including pasta, eggs and cornflakes and is invited to choose between butternut squash or carrots as this week's vegetables.

According to the sport's lore, in 1823 William Webb Ellis, a pupil at Rugby School, defied the conventions of the day (that the ball may only be kicked forward) to pick up the ball and run with it in a game, thus creating the distinct handling game of rugby football.

4.11pm BST First set: *Murray 1-1 Lu (*denotes next server) A wonderful game of cat and mouse on the second point, except it's Murray who's getting the runaround, charging forward to pick up a drop shot, scampering back to retrieve a lob, and it's Lu who comes out on top.

Boxall, aware of his overload, had let Petratos move into a central position and instead stepped forward to pick up Brown, but when Petratos turned and faced forward, Brown burst into the space in behind Boxall before crossing to Andrija Kaluderovic to finish off the move.

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The days when I looked forward to picking up my copy of The Spectator are gone.

"We are very pleased with the work we accomplished this year and look forward to picking up where we left off when the sea ice retreats next summer," Shell said.

"Now I look forward to picking up the baton, mixing my metaphors and sailing towards the Land of Nod (i.e. Z).

"I'm looking forward to picking up these characters again and bang them into each other into a different way," says Horowitz.

"I feel great and am looking forward to picking up my life where I left off," the victim, Iran Brown, 13, said at a news conference at Children's Hospital here, where he was a patient after the attack.

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