She threw it on the floor. I forced her to get out of her chair to pick the spoon up.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

"Typically the real estate sector leads the economy in a recovery, meaning that it tends to pick up before some other things.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

They pick it up on their bodies and carry it to another flower.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

He bent to pick it up. Just as he was about to throw it into the wastepaper basket, he noticed that the letter was signed by his business partner, Thomas Antrim.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

And that's one of the things Jacob was noted for. His level of expression is so profound that even with a few strokes, he can pick up the action and show it to you".

VOA: special.2009.09.02

You want to keep spinning your mandrel so that it doesn't melt off the rod and you're going to heat your bead so that it's tacky enough to roll onto the frit and pick up pieces of the glass."

VOA: special.2009.05.18

"And the relation with Israel within two years allowed Turkey to tell the Syrians you either kick him out or we will come in there to pick him up and it worked."

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

"If the image of the company is not satisfactorily strong in the public sentiment's mind it's easy for agents to whip up community outrage through the Internet through e mail, what have you, so the newspapers pick it up and say the foreign company is out to take advantage of Korea,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.05