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Usage examples of pick-up.

I walked over to her bed and collapsed on it, and the next thing I knew she was shaking my shoulder and telling me that it was six in the morning and it was time to take the truck back to the Acme Fertilizer Company and make another pick-up.

I was ready to call it quits and give up on the reward and just spend the next few years enjoying a little pre-connubial bliss, she told me that I was all through going to Acme Fertilizer Company and would now be making my pick-ups at the Prime Fish Hatcheries.

He glanced back at Arnica standing by the rear wheel of the pick-up, her face averted, then motioned for us to get back into the car.

Then, unerringly directing his face toward the camera pick-up, Bevel grinned.

As Chuck and I climbed into the cab of my battered old Ford pick-up, Chubby sidled across like a racecourse tipster, speaking out of the corner of his mouth.

Deirdre was well on her way to the Bus Eireann pick-up point in Dingle Town that would take her to Tralee train station, and thence to the farthest point in Ireland she could contemplate, when I overtook her on the road.

He then explained at length how the dolphin had been purchased and trained at a dolphinarium in America until she could have made the pick-up blindfolded.

She strolled for an hour, bought a seafood cocktail and a pretzel from sidewalk stalls, sat watching the fishing boats tied up along the Embarcadero, found herself in conversation with other strollers from time to time, discouraged two pick-up attempts without giving offence, and listened to a three-man group playing in Ghirardelli Square.

Foreigners mostly, some fanciable chicks, could be a good pick-up joint.

Gangs of young men went out into the world armed only with the buzzing, howling and chiming of single-coil and Humbucker pick-ups and the clatter of drums, screaming their war cries and moaning their laments.

As the pick-up ground to a halt the leader of the Taliban group gestured with his Kalashnikov, ordering us out.

Crawling on his hands and knees, Summet saw that that diggers at the bottom were strewn on the white like black pick-up sticks, each man holding on in the hope that the shaking would stop.

These three were recent pick-ups and Tanager was inclined to believe that those men who had been detained during the time of the assault on the Dubois child were necessarily innocent of the Hadley murder.

A bonfire burned in the middle of the square and a pick-up Tzigane orchestra stood around it playing Gypsy melodies.

Still careful, he shifted his grip to the belt, sat down on the floor, stretched an arm and switched on the TV pick-up.