They're ready right now, and it's always best to pick things at their peak.

She followed him round the room, talking over his shoulder, picking things up and putting them down again.

"We were trying to pick things that would cause us to laugh, not come to blows," he said.

But we'll probably spend a lot of time watching film together, and that's when I can help him pick things up.

"I just pick things up here and there," he said.

You find someone who's done it right and pick things.

You want to pick things apart for all the ways they can go wrong?

"It's not like someone was just picking things out of the air."

He is, however, a quick study and picks things up fast.

I just sort of picked things up along the way.