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Simple sentences
The wind is picking up.
I fell off the ladder when I was picking apples.
The kids are picking flowers in the garden.
When I went down to the garden, two little girls were picking daisies.
We went picking strawberries.
Two little girls are picking daisies.
She stopped picking daisies.
The thief had special tools for picking locks.
She's picking her nose.
Who's picking up the tab?
Stop picking on Tom.
Tom is picking flowers.
I am picking apples.
I want to thank you for picking Tom up after school.
You're picking up some bad habits from us.
Tom is in the garden, picking flowers.
Cathy stopped picking flowers.
It's incredible that you could write such a well-designed program after just picking up programming by imitation.
It is a lot of fun picking various shells on the sands.
I think the wind's picking up.
Recently, there have been signs that the economy is picking up steam.
Tom is picking his nose.
Movie subtitles
After everything I've done for your love story, to get you together with Josh Chan, and you betray me by picking sarcastic, alcoholic, unromantic Greg? Whoa. Why are you still here?
Yeah, thanks for the instant replay, but I'm still picking the cranberries out of my ears, so I'm good.
COOPER: Neal, don't forget the bow tie. Barry, why aren't you picking up?
Well, I'm picking.
He's a corker -- he was picking up Dinky cars with his artificial arms on last week.
You're always picking on me.
Say, I wish you'd quit picking on these fellows.
And me picking a winner for the first time this year.
My men are picking them up.
I'd think you guys would be tired of picking me up.
Pilfering pennies from other children's lockers at school. then a little pocket picking, then a spot of car pinching. then smash and grab and so on to plain burglary.
He's picking up our friend at the London Palladium on the way out.
Yes, I know. And is picking up someone at the London Palladium.
The cunning of Frankenstein in his mountain laboratory, picking dead men apart and building up a human monster so fearful and so horrible that only a half-crazed brain could have devised.
The pressure sensors installed in the grounds aren't picking up anything either.
But then I'm picking up a new trail here.
There's a 100 ways to dying, brother, and I'm picking my own way.
But first we're picking up two guys.
And I'll take care of picking up a couple of dames.
She's always picking up the grand duke's soldiers. which I'm beginning to suspect he leaves intentionally.
How long have you been at this court picking up soldiers?
There are hundreds in the garden picking all the flowers.
After everything I've done for your love story, to get you together with Josh Chan, and you betray me by picking sarcastic, alcoholic, unromantic Greg?
Barry, why aren't you picking up?
Say, I wish you'd quit picking on these fellows. I've filled every hospital in town for you now.
We ought to be picking up an old witch doctor around here pretty soon.
Everyone picking on the poor little fellow.
We're not picking any of you up.
What're you picking on Phil for?
But I'm picking myself up, William Chandler.
I loved the coming and going. picking up an umbrella. giving a smoker a light just in time. indicating the clock to a man without a watch. going. coming. going up. coming down. opening the door 50 times.
News and current affairs
So, given that Germany will be picking up many more bills (regardless of whether the eurozone survives), how can it best use the strength of its balance sheet to alleviate Europe's growth problems?
No other country is capable of picking up the slack if America's economy remains soft.
But, rather than picking facts and stories to fit some grand narrative of decline or progress, we should try to compare across all areas of human existence to see if the world really is doing better or worse.
In equal quota elections, the leaders present three candidates, leaving voters the task of picking one.
Nonetheless, there is a creeping perception that the OSCE is becoming too deeply engaged in picking winners and losers in Albanian politics - a perception underpinned by wider questions of sovereignty.
Any modern industrial policy must involve more than just picking winners.
A new European treaty would not allow cherry-picking, but would give each member state a chance to join, or commit to, either the politically more integrated eurozone or the less integrated second group.
Government, it is often said, should not be engaged in picking winners.
A perception has been growing over the last few years - and picking up strength in recent months - that Latin America is swinging back to the left.
If you weed out most of the bad and the ugly, you end up picking more of the good apples - and do better than average.
This is the bridge on the road to Moscow, and activity there is picking up.
Aggressive lending from a cleaned up banking system with a new credit culture based on picking winners will supplement that strategy, as will business friendly taxation.
More important, Western leaders must comprehend the danger of picking sides.
Now Europe and its various contingents are playing a leading role in picking up the pieces there.
The good news is that economic growth in the euro-zone economy appears to be picking up (even in Italy).
Analytically, we are still picking through the wreckage of this experiment.
Given that productivity has not been picking up, fewer workers mean significantly lower potential growth rates.
America's recovery since the Great Recession, has been inconsistent, with growth repeatedly picking up and then sputtering out.
Picking partners is an inherently political act.
Weeding out the bad and the ugly based on these scores, and thus picking more of the good apples, has been shown to provide higher returns with lower risk than actively managed alpha or passive beta funds.
But they often were not allowed to start picking until 2-3 hours later, when the dew on the plants dried - time for which they were not paid.
Farther away, in Libya and Syria, the Saudis have said little, perhaps to avoid picking the losing side in uncertain circumstances.
During the last harvest, when 100-degree heat forced him, his wives, and his mother to stop picking cotton after a few hours, he returned to his compound to tend to his ducks.
By picking territorial fights with its neighbors, China is not only reinforcing old rivalries, but is also threatening Asia's continued economic renaissance - showing that it is not a credible candidate to lead Asia.
The OAS can involve itself in domestic electoral, political, or human rights issues only if a majority of its members mandates it to do so, and countries like Mexico and Brazil are fearful of picking fights with Venezuela.
Perhaps the country lending activities of the World Bank should be almost completely eliminated, with the private sector, and the regional development banks such as the Asian Development Bank and Inter-American Development Bank, picking up the slack.
Government, it is often said, should not be engaged in picking winners. The market is far better in making such judgments.
Ireland, often praised for its success in picking winners, relied on the technical competence of its renowned Industrial Development Agency to safeguard the integrity and effectiveness of the selection process.