Sentences with phrase «habit of picking up»

I'm pretty good about picking up small messes before they make big ones but that is one room I try to stay clear of;) and she hasn't formed the habit of picking up when she's done playing.

Get in the habit of picking up a bag of beans whenever you visit a new coffee shop, until you learn what you like best.

Many puppies develop the habit of picking up rocks and other garbage they find and eating it.

The Tab's glossy touchscreen had an unfortunate habit of picking up fingerprints easily.

The new springs and dampers are soft enough to soak up mid-corner undulations, while sufficiently stiff to keep all four contact patches glued to the pavement — unlike Gittin's Formula D car that has habit of picking up the inside front wheel.

Late last summer I got into the habit of picking up just about anything green that was on sale.

To figure out whether noise might influence important cellular decisions, Elowitz and his collaborators turned to bacteria, which have an occasional habit of picking up foreign DNA in the environment and incorporating it into their genomes.

Four centre - backs for practically an entire season and of those four two of them, Mamadou Sakho and Dejan Lovren, have a habit of picking up injuries.

Discipline will be important — his habit of picking up silly yellow cards could become costly.

But for some strange reason goalkeepers have a habit of picking up bizarre knocks.

Not exact matches

Opinions vary on what's the best brain - boosting reading material, with suggestions ranging from developing a daily newspaper habit to picking up a variety of fiction and nonfiction, but everyone seems to agree that quantity is important.

You need to spend time on the site to just watch and listen — and avoid importing some of the social - media habits you've picked up elsewhere.

Though she oversees an $ 81 billion operation, Foulkes is struggling to keep customers in the habit of buying general merchandise when they visit a CVS to pick up a prescription.

We pick up the habits, thoughts and actions of those we spend time with.

The closer you look, the more you'll see that you're picking up the habits of those close to you — and they're picking up yours.

Rich Habits is one of those books that is worth picking up again just to quickly read through and remind yourself of average habits of the rich.

Even after I deleted the app, I would randomly pick up my phone and click where the app used to be, just out of habit.»

The truth is, everything on this list is worth doing in your twenties (or your teens, if you're so inclined) but we talk about it like this because though nothing magical happens on your thirtieth birthday, 30 years is enough time to work out some of life's kinks and pick up on some good habits.

Critical thinking is one of the better habits I picked up in higher education, along with an awareness of my own ignorance, an appreciation for the humanities, and the ability to cook an entire meal using only a hot pot and the expired contents of a communal fridge.

I often hear Christians who have picked up a really bad habit of saying «Father God» at least once every 5 words.

Now that I have kids and don't want them picking up my bad habits, I've cut down on a lot of snacking.

You'll have to pick up some new habits while doing the Paleo diet, and making yourself chili for lunch may be one of them.

In any case, when I was 19 I spent 6 weeks studying art history in the magical city of Florence, and, although I didn't pick up the Italian espresso habit, I definitely got into biscotti!

I'm a creature of habit and always pick up the same basic staples (i.e. greens, grains, frozen fruits).

Poultry are good and were cheap in Ceylon, a fine fowl being had for six fanams, or ninepence; geese, turkeys, and ducks are equally moderate, but ducks are in bad repute in consequence of their dirty habits in feeding, the natives allowing them to pick up any filth about their huts, where they are reared.

As well as a thousand children picking up good nutritional habits, a thousand families are becoming aware of the campaign, as what the kids learn about health and sustainability is coming home with them.

During this period Taylor picked up the habit of studying the agate type in the financial pages each morning.

... One key to the stellar play of Hornets center Vlade Divac (12.9 points, 9.2 rebounds and 2.2 blocks per game through Sunday): He gave up his habit of 10 to 15 cigarettes a day... After being traded twice in three days last month — from the Mavericks to the Nets to the Lakers — swingman George McCloud made only nine field goals in his first nine games with L.A. Twice this season with Dallas he made nine field goals in one game... «The pick - and - roll has been killing us,» says Kings guard Mitch Richmond.

Mazzone pads to the kitchen, pours coffee into a paper cup — an old clubhouse habit — and picks up a stack of papers that his wife has printed out for him.

As for Flamini, he made his choice by leaving for AC Milan when he should have been developing his game under Wenger, he's picked up too many bad habits along the way, his game was blanced befor he left but now its all aggression and no real or measured substance, thanks to the influence of Rhino Gattuso, so he's really got no one to blame, I don't blame him either, it is just what it is.

We never picked her up because we didn't want to teach the habit of crying = get picked up.

With the passing of Earth Day it's a perfect time to pick up a new green habit.

She will pick up the habit of using the bathroom very quickly using this method, since she will be in the bathroom throughout the day and she will sooner or later go on the potty one of those trips to the bathroom.

If your child sees you procrastinating or choosing to watch TV instead of doing the dishes, he'll pick up on your habits.

It is also very important to begin communicating with your child to help prevent him from picking up bad habits, including the use of tobacco, alcohol and drugs (including the use of inhalants; especially aerosols and glue).

Personally, I think every parent should try to investigate some basic infant resus, because as those little blighters become more mobile and more curious they have a habit of picking more daft objects up to check if they are food or not.

It does require more time in the bathroom throughout the day to make sure that your child goes and you are essentially getting them to pick up the habit of potty training in one day.

She had «broken» him of the habit in two weeks by making it a rule never to pick him up after the 10 p.m. news or before 6 a.m. Adele was not willing to do that.

As your baby gets her new set of chompers, she might pick up a new annoying habit.

After that, if you cried during the night I always picked you up because it meant you were sick or had a bad dream, and you already had the habit of sleeping through the night so I knew it was temporary.

Anyway due to all this she picked up the habit of taking milk through bottle and not to take breastfeed.

Be aware of the moral ethics you are teaching your kids unknowingly; always verbal preaching are not needed as they will pick up habits from you just by following your acts.

As they pick up each other's habits of saying things, they develop their own «secret code.»

A child who isn't confident may pick up the habit of biting his or her nails or may become afraid of things that aren't really a threat.

It seems that nail biting is one of those common childhood habits that annoys the heck out of parents: right up there with nose picking, hair pulling, and thumb sucking.

Since moving in three months ago, Bickley has picked up a lot of habits that she didn't have before.

Then there are the foreign students — all those young Chinese and Koreans studying at Central St Martin's University of the Arts in King's Cross, the European students on Erasmus exchange programmes around the country (doubly bad no doubt in Mr Farage's eyes since it's an EU scheme, that also sends Britons to the Continent, where they might too pick up the habit of speaking these foreign languages), the students from the Indian sub-continent studying engineering and computer science, students from around the globe trying to acquire or improve their grasp of the English language that can be their passport to a good job wherever in the globe they come from.

O'Malley described it as similar to «living with a roommate and picking up some of their habits.

She has a strange habit of picking the end of her tail up in her mouth and resting with it in her mouth, occasionally batting the tip hanging out of her mouth with her paw playfully.

Splitting the bills isn't a problem for us, but with this responsibility I also picked up on a lot of his spending habits.