Sentence examples for pick up rather from inspiring English sources

The Sunday Times's AA Gill was quick to pick up, rather affectionately, on her continuous "leering and blinking" at the viewer, before recently confessing to "an avuncular, chin-chucking, bottom-patting, twinkly-winking fondness for Claudia Winkleman".

Sifry talks about identifying bloggers who consistently start the stories others pick up, rather like tracking the outbreak of an epidemic and developing the equivalent of "PageRank for people".

Sales have fallen sharply, as developers wait in vain for demand to pick up rather than flogging their properties at a discount.In this section Rage against the machine Building India Inc The widow takes it all Time for Super Mario Now we are seven billion Afraid of a bump ReprintsKerbing Chinese enthusiasmTheir wait is all the more painful because credit is, belatedly, tightening.

Many of us find that we pick up rather more than improved bench techniques during such sojourns--a love of another culture or some facility with a second language might be unexpected spin-offs of a trip abroad.

It doesn't even matter if I will regret opting for the Mongolian beef instead of the steamed chicken later on, because at least the fortune I received was worth the rainy night drive to pick up, rather than have it delivered.

Not only will that make them feel better, but it will influence them to pick up rather than hacking 12 or 15 shots a hole.

"Spending is picking up rather than being delayed.

Picking up rather disturbing suggestions on the net that the police have been using tear gas on sections of the crowd at the Estadio de Bata following surges.

That baton is picked up rather nicely by David McKie who has, in effect, taken it upon himself to rehabilitate both the bus and the British provinces.

A little connoisseurship can be picked up rather easily.

When different commodities are continuously picked up, rather than pick up simultaneously to compare, this method also does not work well.