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In fact, some people might be happy to hang around the office for no salary at all in the hope of picking up some odd jobs.

It was just a matter of my picking out which old message I was going to use on her so that she would know what a bad girl she had been.

One day, Persephone is trying to bend over in the fields picking flowers one, the earth suddenly open to a broad slit.

Picking her up in my arms like a child, I turn her on her side.

However, many of you who keep abreast of what is happening all around the world, are picking up the clues to what is about to happen.

Singer-songwriter Imogen Heap was one of the few British winners, picking up best engineered non-classical album for Ellipse.

That would let him pass laws that do not entail constitutional amendments by picking off just a few PRI members or their allies.

But it's a lot easier than picking up trash, you know, and doing that, so, you know, I gave it a try.

He sees a Photoshopped image of a man picking his nose so vigorously that his finger pokes out of his eye socket.

He was picking her up on his way home after the st. John's game at the garden.

Costacurta did not complete the session after picking up a slight muscle knock but is not a concern to the medical staff.

He thought, If she sees this, she'll think I'm totally crazy, and he began picking up the trash and stuffing it back in the garbage can.

a heavy snow was falling - a fine picking , whipping snow , borne forward by a swift wind in long , thin lines.

"Incredibly, the experiment was picking up unexpected noise - as if quantum convulsions were causing an extra sideways jitter. "

"And I saw the elephants, " she said, "and what do you think they were doing? Picking up peanuts with their vacuums ! "

Even Time's readers came down on Assange's side, picking him for Person of the Year in a popular vote that ended this week.

It was a typical BarCap bet - that the subprime problems would be short-lived and that it was picking up assets on the cheap.

He appeared to take great delight in wheeling her to the end of the pier, picking her up out of the chair.

PR: My first record came out in 1979. It was called ACOUSTIC GUITAR and contained all original compositions in a finger picking style.

If you see someone you know doing this , you can ask them , Would you mind picking it up?

Yes. Picking assets, at least at the start of the year, will be about choosing the least worst option.

China's economy is picking up. The slump in global manufacturing seems to be easing.

This has been a strong driver behind the Taiwanese picking up certain investment products over the past few years.

It frustrated her to sit among a mountain of papers; but the role of a background worker, patiently picking up after Jo, also suited her.

As I came into his stall, he was busy picking out soft hay with which to line the straw in his self-made bed.

Picking up a piece of nettle, this inquisitive baby rhesus monkey had no idea she was about to get stung.

The children are concerned that when their parents are picking them up from school, they might be arrested and deported. . .

"She said he wanted picking up and cuddles all the time, " said the friend.

I say that he was only a child, and threatened: "I have no money, stop picking or I'll send you to the police station. "

She did this under the nose of an on looking German soldier, convincing him she was simply in the woods picking daisies.

Possibly picking up the scent of her young, she let out a high-pitched, miserable howl.

Ever get the feeling your boyfriend is looking at other women as you walk down the street? Well, perhaps he's picking up the habit from you.

around the flea market on the chance of picking up something of value.

You can and should learn from everyone, be it a crook or a saint. Every life is a story filled with lessons ripe for the picking.

Aoyama: If I have got an idea, I will be completely occupied with it. But my wife helps me with choosing and picking out properties.

There was a little path beside the rocky road, and Mrs. Flowers walked ahead of me, swinging her arms and picking her way over the stones.

First, she swung a slap at her husband's attacker. She followed up by picking up the plate and trying to strike him with it.

He said Mr. Obama had been smart about picking the terrain he fought on. "He has waited until the stars aligned before he acted, " he said.

He said the company's tests show that Andrea is 44 times better at picking up a molecule of formaldehyde than a standard HEPA filter.

While centre forward Thierry Henry rarely scores a tap-in, Pires seems to picking up a poacher's instincts as he gets older.

It looks like the money is there for the picking by any sharp-witted individual with a computer, a modem, and a live data feed.

A few days later, at twilight, the same boy appeared again, picking up the trail along the Tigris.

said the nurse, picking up the cork of the green bottle, which had fallen out on the pillow, as she stooped to take up the child.

Picking out a new pair of running shoes can be intimidating for a new runner.

It's a little bit more difficult than I thought it was gonna be, but I'm kind of picking it up.

"What's his comfort object called? " Lily asked, picking up the stuffed creature which had been placed beside the new child in his basket.

Picking classes was far more arcane than I had expected (or than it would have been at a smaller school).

He said while he taught the younger players a thing or two about the sport, he was also picking up a lot from them.

Picking fights with neighbors over minor issues is pointless, especially now, and on this point Krugman and I are in synch.

As used on the little hand, picking the one into a basket carried on the back, as if tireless.

He resolved to drown him, and walked on, looking about for a pond: picking up a heavy stone and tying it to his handkerchief as he went.

Shaking the rest of the batter from his clothes and picking up his oak-leaf cap, which had fallen off, Tom ran home as fast as he could.

Harry's seemed to be picking up every sigh of the wind, every cracking twig.

Coal was got by picking it up in buckets and baskets along the maze of tracks in the near-by railroad yard.

Upon picking up her check, she found it a bit light and did some investigating.

After a while, his father dropped another cherry and once again, his son lost on time in picking it up and putting it in his mouth.

In a small village, a woman picking blackberries saw 'a large cat' only five yards away from her.

One day, having a cold, he took to picking up the glass inkwell that was sunk in his desk top and quietly clearing this throat into it.

If you think we're being silly by picking such a completely different animal, fine. Try it with a fly, or a cockroach.

Picking up the phone and contacting everyone on your contact list is something good for you to do anyway.

I am picking up a little difficulty in you trying to express what you wish to say.

Not be like, you know, a neat freak picking up all the trash, but I can do what I can.

The parameters of the microenvironment can be detected through picking up eigenvalues of the surface plasma resonance spectra.

She imagined him going into his office, closing the door, perhaps picking up the picture of her that stood on his cluttered desk.

It also seems to be picking up a lot of mind-share as the defacto 'Java Scripting Language', which is helping that community.

These proteins act like trucks, picking up the cholesterol and transporting it to different parts of the body.

And yet I sit at my desk, picking up the phone, then putting it down again.

Kelly Coffman-Lee wanted to tell the world about her fondness for bean curd by picking certain letters for her SUV's licence plate.

The company has decided to produce their "New Small Family" set of vehicles, picking Slovakia as their ideal location.

I've seen some amazing live acts recently by picking a name out of the listings and simply turning up in support.

You know, there's something that she's picking up in the way that the drumming sound resonates inside the hollow.

They also examined the robot dog as if it were an object rather than a creature - prodding it and picking it up.

Think back a year or two. Picture yourself at a cocktail party or maybe picking up the kids from soccer.

An old friendship had grown cold. Where once there had been closeness, there was only strain. Now pride kept me from picking up the phone.

So the next time your child runs to you complaining that her brother is picking on her, step back and let them work it out.

Even though business is picking up, she said she is not ready to hire new employees.

The talent trees as originally conceived were more about options and less about picking a single tree and trying to stay within it.

"Picking up the iPod was one unit, " he says impatiently, as if I should know better.

He got up, left the compartment, and went along the corridor, picking his way over suitcases and kitbags and bodies, to the lavatory.

'But after picking it up I noticed there was a piece of brown paper rolled up inside and there was some foreign writing on it.

Great sums of money can be made by picking solid stocks beaten down in bear markets.

How much can you reasonably expect them to know about the subject before picking up your thesis?

Zhang Ziyi showed up in a black tube dress for the ceremony and was seen picking up a couple of items for herself in the store.

ALMOST everywhere you look, the American recovery seems to be picking up pace.

"Page thirty-two, Mary, " she said, "page thirty-two, " and, picking up the yellow chrysanthemum, she held it to her lips to hide her smile.

Folks are picking up the pieces after powerful storms ripped through the South. At least two people were killed.

As he got closer, he realized the figure was that of a boy picking something up and gently throwing it into the ocean.

I saw her getting out of the car and picking up shopping bags, saw her going through and go upstairs ahead of me.

Having cooperation with the farmer directly makes it easy to grab the critical temperature, time picking frozen.

First, you'll begin by picking your favorite character as you attempt to live a life of happiness in this ever-changing world.

First, you'll begin by picking your favorite character as you attempt to live a life of happiness in this ever-changing world.

You lose track of time in there and also your hearing tends to fail, especially when it comes to picking up anguished banging on the door.

And He passed through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to go along, picking the ears of grain.

The advantage of picking 1910 was that America had not yet settled down, demographically speaking.

Pear and then we do not play the next, then a few tiny fruit is also bizarre that no one again picking up rotten ripe to fall to the ground.

The hunt for the puma began in a small village, a woman picking blackberries when she saw "a large cat" only five yards away from her, .

As he grew nearer, he noticed that the local native kept leaning down, picking something up and throwing it out into the water.

After picking up the placards, gradually uniformed and plain-clothes police force, one of whom was a woman, showed up.

While full-time tech jobs might not be making a roaring comeback, freelance and part-time work seems to be picking up the slack.

From the picking to the brewing there was a great deal of factory work involved: drying, firing, rolling, and, for black tea, fermenting.

He was a bully always picking fights-Wall Street, health insurers, oil companies, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. He took on all comers.

Possibly picking up the scent of her young, she let out a high-pitched, plaintive whine.

Today, I found my boyfriend in his room picking off the dead skin from his feet with a needle.

Picking up the device, the female western lowland gorilla called Bawang, began to examine it, even fiddling with the buttons.

Poet Tao Yuanming is famous for his love of chrysanthemum and his act of picking chrysanthemum has usually been ascribed to his love of it.

One afternoon, the trainees tackled weed-picking with enthusiasm, competing to see who could dig up the largest clump.

Cotton-picking and weeding machines, which had received little attention before the war, were improved and the farm work was mechanized.

Recently, there has been a trend towards multi-channel retail, allowing new models such as purchasing online and picking up in store.

He ignored his wife's plea, to stop picking on his daughter and lifted his hand to settle her whit a blow.

May we suggest that although the language barrier may be present, that which the heart is picking up on cannot be denied.

Also, whilst I disagree with the picking and choosing of intervention, and am as ever dubious of the true aims, good can come out of it.

Picking up some stray offcut, he would begin to smile. Wood, like a warm and living thing, had to be respected and loved.

Louise: Hey, you just took all day picking something, give me a chance, alright?

Watts set the test in motion by randomly picking one person as a trendsetter, then sat back to see if the trend would spread.

After a couple of minutes I was sure that it really was the President speaking - the radio was picking up the TV broadcast from Channel One.

He's picking on Peter, and you know Peter's the last man in the world to cause trouble.

Because I had so much fun picking it out for you.

He also started picking his nose. He made out like he was only pinching it, but he was really getting the old thumb right in there.

Yet business and consumer confidence seem to be picking up across most of the euro area.

By the time the final whistle sounded we knew the Frenchman would not play in the return game after picking up a suspension.

Uh, I live right around the corner. I'm just picking something up to take to, um.

Then, as he is picking up his vegetables, he sees a bag on the road. It has many gold coins, and a note from the king.

He says they encounter no hostility eating out as a gay couple or picking up the children from their private school.

You know, most people don't have the luxury of just picking up and leaving it all behind.

Picking up a piece of falling leaves, with a melancholy light, message to you, can you see my heart's missing.

Picking a name for your business requires much more than just creativity and a working knowledge of your target market.

"Picking up blocks was the same thing as pulling out vegetables from the ground, " he said.

Try picking up the tab for once when you head out with your BF.

He took his son to the New Year, picking up rubbish get the money away.

Some time before he introduced himself I'd got a strong impression that he was picking his words with care.

All day long I had been very busy; picking up trash, cleaning bathing rooms and scrubbing floors .

She said many companies have canceled tours, so she's picking up some of those travelers.

Regulators are furiously trying to find ways to prevent taxpayers picking up the tab for banking crises.

Picking one piece in your hand, the heart-shaped leaf seemed as if a lightened lamp, and your hand is also lightened by it.

Each of the big players has its own agenda, so picking a candidate from amongst them may be a hard sell within the group itself.

This evening I read a Chinese fable about a farmer. After picking a hare up, he began to wait under a tree in order to get another hare.

All day long I had been very busy; picking up trash, cleaning bathrooms and scrubbing floors.

Opening the door, she found it was a small girl, who picking up her little face and asked, "Auntie, is there a candle in your home? "

Picking through the carnage, Uganda's police found a severed head with "Somali features" .

The only thing worth picking up, he said, was unwanted computers.

And after a couple of hours, they actually start picking up the signal, because the Soviets made Sputnik very easy to track.

"Business is picking up relatively slowly, but it feels as if the recovery has substance. "

Could going there to help keep you healthy and protect against the flu backfire if you're picking up the very germs that cause it?

Gucci: Your father has been picking you up everyday since the beginning of this semester, right?

The next day, TMZ's cameras caught them shopping at Nordstrom at The Grove and picking up refreshments at the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf.

This algorithm can reduce the working time of the ball picking robot and improve its efficiency.

So is business picking up, I inquired. He said no, not particularly; he just felt better for no reason he could put his finger on.

We left the mall after picking out a few more clothes and buying two big bags of Salt and Vinegar chips.

And he is blessed, he said, with a natural talent for picking up new skills quickly.

Now that she's out of school, with a degree in psychology, she's picking up right where she left off.

With others by Intel and Oracle as well, the recent flush of acquisitions shows things are picking up for the software sector.

Turn and work all the way around the round, picking up each of these two wraps on your way.

He sees a Photoshoppedimage of a man picking his nose so vigorously that his finger pokes out of his eye socket.

Now is a time of picking up the threads in a different world , of the Chinese having to rediscover and reinvent themselves .

He didn't realize he had the whole package in front of him, ripe for the picking.

Picking the right six numbers in a lotto is, to say the least, statistically improbable.

As you progress, you'll get better at picking out words and interpreting their meanings as they flow past at the speed of speech.

I was picking some out, and when I turned around you were eating a tomato. It was all over your face.

Three years ago, when he was lifting bricks in lieu of picking up acting work, his ride was more a health hazard than a boy's toy.

The disease can be controlled by means of clearing pathogenic bacteria, spraying pesticide appropriately and picking fruits careful.

When they were picking out engagement rings in a jewelry store, Mr. Toba recalled, a clerk asked if he was shopping for his daughter.

Thunderstorm case, picking a great Indus leaves, up in the head, playing a home.

Steal: To take the ball away from the opposing team, either off the dribble or by picking off a pass.

The dating sites are running big ad campaigns right now, which is all the more evidence they're ripe for the picking.

I used to go shopping, and find myself wondering aimlessly around the aisles picking random items.

at last , in a pause , he glanced at the sun , measured its height above the horizon , and suggested his manuscripts by picking them up.

He added that he would have "no problem whatsoever" with picking Jonny Evans, the young Northern Ireland defender, in the final.

New Zealand's economic recovery, however, seems to be picking up steam.

She hung up her coat and stepped out of her shoes and walked around the room picking up things She stuck the newspaper in the wastebasket .

Is there any other country capable of picking up the slack?

Even without a direct connection to someone, however, I feel comfortable picking up the phone and calling pretty senior people.

The next time your at a party, try picking up girls with your computer programming skills and see how far that gets you.

If you design things from scratch, as with a new application, picking one of the component patterns described previously can help.

Picking up the self hypnosis session once again gave her a great motivational boost.

Critics say that this approach simply exploits the value effect, a long-established approach to stock-picking.

Funny is always leaving his dirty socks on the floor and I am constantly picking them up for him.

The result of economic woes rather than straight-up loopy lending, foreclosures are picking up in states such as Idaho, Utah and Illinois.

So she went off to Inner Mongolia for a couple of months, picking up a temporary gig by chance as a tour guide, before returning to Beijing.

Picking up litter is only one of an endless supply of possible helping rituals.

But because revenues have been picking up the Treasury does not expect it would need to increase debt sales much beyond its current plan.

Got to do some carpentry, fishing, digging for clams and picking blueberries to make ends meet.

All is wonderful in this life Dreaming of the sun she warms, You should see me in the afterlife Picking up the sons of dust.

I spend my last two weeks nearly dancing around the booths, picking up the same sperm-crusted rags with aplomb, rather than dismay.

Over the course of his career he has had some nasty injuries as well as picking up a succession of niggles and strains.

From then on he didn't plough any more, he just stayed near with the tree and was looking forward to picking another rabbit like this one.

Do yourself a favor and avoid picking up your tax return near this day as it's prone to be a highly emotional day anyway, in other ways.

China's economy is also growing at a stable pace, while industrial production is picking up in several other countries.

At a company outing, a colleague joked that I should toast to the company shuttle drivers, for picking me up everyday.

We were fortunate on this engagement to have management support and insight in picking projects still in their formative stage.

Making fun A woman is going to ride the motorcycle with two men picking up, attracting other men to make fun of them.

But they should not allow their new-found appreciation of big companies to degenerate into a taste for picking national champions.

He sees all his friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and putting it in black bags as more trash falls from above.

When your Aries dad is poking fun or picking a fight with you, believe it or not, he is saying that he loves you.

You're under major pressure to fill someone else's shoes, your boss is picking on you, and everyone in the office is driving you crazy.

Picking up the cost of overhead, and gambling that shoppers would patronize a store with only one company's products, was considered risky.

I was really shaken by the story of the mom who never looked up from her phone while picking up her daughter from school.

I can't put up with Jack. He is always picking at me and laughing at me in front of the others.

It would be even more regrettable if they were to return to picking winners.

'We had hoped 2010 would be back to stock picking, but so far that's not the case, ' BlackRock's Mr. Doll says.

Defensive Awareness: Help defence ability when picking up the ball handler.

Working in an office, sitting in front of a computer screen, picking up the phone. . . that's not my idea of a man's job.

In the dim and distant past, picking the best stocks was just seen as being clever; now that skill is known as "alpha" .

What do you think if there would be someone at the picking place to take your measurements and guide you in choosing size for next purchase?

Huh, so if we won't be able to tell what they're saying, what good is picking up the transmission in the first place?

We knocked him off the pedestal, and now we're dusting him off and picking him up for a new generation.

He witnessed Williams dishing and delivering to his teammates, picking up an assist almost every couple of minutes he was on the floor.

What do you think if there is someone at the picking point to perform any tailoring on your purchases in case of unfitting products?

Even the guy who only makes a few dollars a day picking up passengers on his bike. Even the woman selling things by the roadside.

The police used my evidence (email which pointed to a cab service) that he was a driver and tricked him into picking them up.

Indeed, I sometimes make a point of picking up the "female interest" calendars just to remind myself-and anyone else watching-that I can.

I seem to be always picking on you, telling you don't do this and don't do that.

Splitting A serious form of picking where part of paper surface were torn on the press due to extreme tacky of the ink. See Picking.

Picking up a piece of white stone, I scribbled my name on it and said, "Let this be my own gravestone. "

Once set, the gelatin surface was seeded by picking up a minute quantity of bacterial cells on a platinum needle.

Housing sales are picking up in some of the hardest hit markets, though prices are still dropping.

A restaurant manager interrupts to fawn all over Jackson, although he's not the one picking up the tab.

While talking at a Mexico City restaurant, Dominguez explained the information he was picking up from his hearing.

Remember, your last chance to get a date or phone number with one of these girls, is when picking up your suitcases.

He tried to undo the knot by picking at it with ihs fingers.

Maybe it's you, on your own, picking up the pieces and starting over, freeing yourself up for something better in the future.

If you're picking a common door lock, there will most likely be at least five of them in a row.

This means you actually have to feel like you are picking up the pace just to run the same speed.

It's the week before Christmas, and you're at Williams-Sonoma, picking out a gift for your food-nut boyfriend.

Ensign: Picking up something on the long-range scanner. Unidentified vessel. Looks like a cruiser.

I am not picking on you. I am trying to help you. That's what.

"We ended up picking the least glamorous phone, " says Mr Cooper. "It was the simplest. "

Despite their differences, both approaches try to increase your probability of picking up the right stock at a right price.

We don't like picking up the papers and reading about Liverpool involved in off-the-field stuff like contracts, owners and negotiations.

Rubbish collectors are following behind the procession picking up discarded bottles, bound to be making a big fortune today.

Booster Draft (including Team Draft): Players open packs and pass them around the table, picking one card at a time.

Picking up on that theme, let me share something I learned from an airline pilot and a banquet manager about the risks of sleep deprivation.

Everyone has preferred methods of picking information out of their minds, so working with others can be distracting.

It was suddenly raining when mom was picking me up today. Mom thought she had to wait forever but she only waited for 1 minute.

Met with the children there had been picking it.

We are happy to be able to inform you that the parts you ordered are now in stock and available for picking up at the above address.

But again, the stock varies naturally from season to season; so picking out a specific impact of the oil leak could prove difficult.

Walk down to hall to see a colleague instead of picking up the telephone.

Han Shan Q Picking: the world was slander me, bully me, insult me, laugh at me, light me, annihilate me, How do I Office of the?

For that reason alone, tall women should consider picking up a dolman sleeved coat to pair with elbow-length gloves.

A smaller part of your language learning should be devoted to picking up some of the basic grammar.

The rougher handling of machine-picking is usually reserved for firmer, less-ripe grapes.

By the fifth company, they were picking stocks that had less than half the market capitalization of the one they started with.

After about calling him twenty times, and him not picking up, I see him drive by the bus stop pointing at me and laughing hysterically.

"China is picking some of the wrong ways to innovate, " says John Frisbie, president of the U. S. -China Business Council.

He is now considered a liberal on the court, and Mr Obama will not therefore alter the court's balance by picking a liberal to replace him.

Global demand for US exports helped shrink the country's trade gap in April in a strong signal that the economy is picking up speed.

Although a scholar of world renown, he would not object to others picking his brains on anything he knows about.

As early as in the Zhou Dynasty, chopsticks were used for picking up meat and vegetables, while hands were used for rice.

One piece of advice for picking a school for study abroad would be to pick a type of institution that differs greatly from your home school.

At that moment my slapping him on the face doesn't wake up as well, hence picking his coat is deeply well ventilated.