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• winner: The studio audience then votes on the best two to pick a winner.

• blackberry: These trips include picking blackberries to make jam which is then sent home to mom and dad in Yorkshire.

• fight: A chastened America is unlikely to pick a fight on that right now.

• ball: In both cases, the free kick should be taken from the spot where the goalkeeper touched or picked the ball up.

• oakum: Picking oakum was separating threads out of disused ropes.

• keywords: Choose Your Keywords As I mentioned earlier, it is important to pick good keywords.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• up: The speakers also seemed to find a way of picking up Forth FM whilst the lecturer was trying to speak.

• out: Despite being picked out by a witness, the man was freed.

Followed by a transitive particle

• up: Council tax payers have been picking up the tab for too long.

• out: Micky then picked out the big West Indian at deep square leg.

Used with why or when

• which: First you need to pick which pet you'd like to help.

Particle object: up_obj

• tab: Council tax payers have been picking up the tab for too long.

• bargain: And visitors to the shop can also spot a celebrity or two as well as pick up a bargain.

• wicket: Chester batted first but were soon in trouble as Jamie Hackett picked up three early wickets.

• phone: She picks up the phone, dials, lets it ring twice, then hangs up quickly.

• pace: This series Phyl and Bev pick up the pace in regards to their antics â they really push the boundaries.

• leaflet: Pick up a leaflet from the Welcome Desk for more information.

Preposition: of

• bowler: Dave Nelson the pick of the bowlers taking 5 - 39.

• bunch: However the 17th on the Lakes is perhaps the pick of the bunch.

Noun used with modifier

• litter: Litter pick in a various parts of the village.