21.   He was always picking my brain about vocal technique, and I tried to tell him as much as I could about what I do.

22.   His aunt worked for TU so he could pick her brain about what the company was like and what kind of medical benefits and promotions it offered.

23.   I picked their brains.

24.   I had the impression that he just wanted to pick my brain.

25.   I was trying to pick the brains of Justice Nathan L. Hecht who has served on the Texas Supreme Court for a dozen years.

26.   It means picking brains, asking and answering more questions in meetings and studying harder at night.

27.   It was more like he was picking my brain about what I thought.

28.   Minehan regularly picks the brains of economists on her staff and in the academic community.

29.   One or two attempted to follow his exercise regimen and semiregularly picked his brain.

30.   One way that McElderry acquired her expert repair skills was by hiring professionals and then picking the brains of the workmen.