Sentences with phrase «magpies picking»
That was when our forebears rushed around the world like demented magpies picking up anything and everything that took their fancy.
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The Magpies picked up an unlikely three points against Spurs at White Hart Lane on Sunday, making it two wins from two.
The Magpies picked a 2 - 1 win away at Leicester City last week to make it 3 wins on the bounce.
Two goals were scored in stoppage time to ensure the Magpies picked up maximum point from the game.
Not exact matches
Dugin's magpie mind picks up ideas from the left as well as right.
This is according to the Sun, who state that the Spaniard is beginning to run out of patience and become frustrated with the Belgian international following an incident in the match against the Magpies where the player was subbed off in the 11th minute after he picked up an injury.
Pardew could be facing the sack if the Magpies fail to pick anything up against Hull, so he will be hoping for a strong showing despite the planned fan protests.
If we could have hand picked a team to play today it might well have been the injury and suspension hit out of form Magpies but we said that about Monaco in the Champions League as well so hopefully the players will have learned a valuable lesson and will not mess this one up.
The Magpies lost top spot to Brighton this week but they will have a good chance and picking up three points on Friday night when they play host to Nottingham Forest who are out of sorts at the moment having picked up just the one point in their last four games and who have slipped a little closer to the drop zone.
The Magpies» excitement of having picked up a win on the weekend, may be very short lived.
Newcastle United picked up a 3 - 1 defeat against Benfica on the first leg of their Europa League campaign on Thursday, but the Magpies manager Alan Pardew remains optimistic with his team's chance in advancing into the next stage especially since they managed to score an away goal.
It's a bold pick, but I do genuinely believe the Magpies have a shout.
Magpies moved on the unfamiliar food an average of 20 seconds faster that crows, which eyed the orange treats with more suspicion, pausing longer before picking them up.
The magpie just picks up a piece of plastic that's covered in gold.
«We suggest that humans notice when magpies occasionally pick up shiny objects because they believe the birds find them attractive, while it goes unnoticed when magpies interact with less eye - catching items.