Sentence examples for pick- from inspiring English sources

So we have created a strong incentive for hospitals in the system not to pick out the people who aren't entitled to free NHS care.

"It was due to the intervention of NAB and my itinerant teacher that I have been able to pick up the pieces.

If any player can soothe the Demon heartache that came when No2 pick Christian Petracca suffered a season-ending knee injury in the first months of his career, you'd think it's the young man who followed him by one place in the national draft.

Leonard spends much of his time talking to people at the core of the EU, and of late, he has started to pick up rising worry about whether the UK might leave.

Few midfielders, meanwhile, can pick out the open man in the box quite as consistently as Goldenballs.

He adds: "It would have been easier to pick someone really respected like Charlotte Gainsbourg … but this was more of a challenge, taking a band people were chucking bottles of piss at".

This time she does connect cleanly with a slog sweep, but can only pick out Perry in the deep.

They pick up just a single and with the pressure tightening like a tourniquet Taylor sets off for a dangerous run … and would've been back in the hutch had Lanning hit with her throw from mid-off.

There was another derby in the capital where Millwall eventually sprung to life in the final 10 minutes, overturning Charlton's lead at the New Den to pick up three points in their fight for survival.

"I think it'll be easier for me to pick up career-wise and easier personally," said Tanner.

Back then though, the straight-talking painter-decorator dismissed the acting world as 'pish', so it was a small miracle that he bothered to pick up The Crucible at all.