1. I don't know where my children have picked up those rude words.
2. I wondered why she'd picked me up.
3. Why do you always pick on John?
4. The telephone rang just as I was about to pick up the receiver.
5. Try to eat your lunch, Jane, you've been picking at it.
6. Please, will you pick up my parcel at the post office as you pass?
7. The weak points in his arguments were eagerly picked on by his opponents.
8. It is not safe to travel by standing at the roadside hoping to be picked up by passing motorists.
9. The fruit shop lets pick out for yourself the apples that you want to buy.
10. Pick out the dress that you like best and I’ll buy it for your birthday.
11. Most of the times he just picks at his food.
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1 get along
2 get up
3 get off
4 get down
5 get over
6 get out
7 get away
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1. – Why does he speak French so fluently? – Because it’s his mother tongue.
2. Don’t be disappointed about the results of your test: next time you’ll do better.
3. I always use English-English dictionaries and find them very helpful.
4. I don’t like learning words in isolation. I prefer to learn them in sentences or world combinations.
5. They invite the best interpreters to work at international conferences.
6. An average Russian should know at least one foreign language.
7. May I answer the questions now and write the spelling dictation afterwards?
8. The words “fashion” and “fashionable” are related.
9. He practised his English very hard and soon became quite fluent in it.
10. It’s almost two o’clock. Let’s have lunch.
11. This textbook is full of drill exercises. They help us to remember grammar rules better.
12. If you use the right intonation and vocabulary, you’ll sound polite and will never be rude.