He picked the whole lot up by the small key.

Reach over and pick up the phone by my bed.

And the way he'd picked her up by the hair.

They can also be used within a very small group, until picked up by a larger community.

He had picked up a few words of English by this time, and friends would help him to understand.

He picks them up on his own by this time.

Fact About 90% of all literature picked up by people at trade shows never makes it back to their office.

Eventually, this friend called her sister, who went to the house and picked up both by car.

From then on, he picked up the money by commercial airlines.

It turned out that she had gone for a hill walk on her own with an agreed pick up point by him in the car.