Example sentences of "and picked up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story goes that , one day , the goddess was dusting and picked up a ball of lint dropped by a blue humming-bird , placing it inside her apron . |
| 2 | I went back to the cabin , put my shoes on again , and picked up a bottle of wine . |
| 3 | We all donned gloves and picked up a couple of Harris 's hawks . |
| 4 | Josie laid down her comb , and picked up a couple of big plastic clips from a box on the makeup table . |
| 5 | Adam reached to a shelf behind Miranda 's desk and picked up a case of cosmetic samples . |
| 6 | She leant forward now and picked up a log of wood and threw it into the centre of the glowing ashes . |
| 7 | Together they looked at huge bound tomes which contained drawings by the Wardley ancestors on the Grand Tour — ‘ Great Uncle Charles , died of pneumonia in Genoa , ’ she snorted as she closed his sketchbook and picked up a folio of the architecture of Rome , Naples and the Campagna . |
| 8 | Elaine sighed , and picked up a handful of sand , letting it pour slowly through her fingers . |
| 9 | Lee got up and picked up a piece of cross-stitch tapestry from the top of an old record-player and sat down in the rocking-chair , her back to the two young people . |
| 10 | until about half past nine , when they said right that 's all the dir dirty work done , he said I 'm going up to have a shower and he put the carpet , rolled the carpet half back , and picked up a load of mess and we had polythene dust sheets over it |
| 11 | Willie Moe snorted and picked up the boy by the leg and started to whirl him as if winding him up , which was part of a new routine called ‘ The Living Propeller ’ . |
| 12 | He passed her and picked up the sheet of paper . |
| 13 | Lowell bent down and picked up the fragment of urn , wiping it with the palm of his hand . |
| 14 | He was halfway through his coffee when he swung his legs off the couch and picked up the phone to the embassy . |
| 15 | The Sheikh motioned us to sit down , left his men outside , and picked up the phone on the table . |
| 16 | He probably tried the door to the house , found that unlocked as well and picked up the hammer in case he was disturbed . ’ |
| 17 | He leant forward and picked up the bunch of keys and the bit of paper . |
| 18 | The man posed as a mini-cab driver and picked up the woman outside a pub in Brockley , south-east London . |
| 19 | He returned to the Golf and picked up the invoice from the passenger seat . |
| 20 | De Raimes shrugged carelessly and picked up the lid of a warming dish , inspecting the food beneath it . |
| 21 | Simon strode over to the table and picked up the parchment on top of the pile . |
| 22 | Slowly and deliberately , he rose from his chair and picked up the piece of rope from the floor . |
| 23 | The corset buyer got to her feet grimly and picked up the glass of drinking water in front of her . |
| 24 | Devlin glanced up , smiling amiably and picked up the glass of beer in his left hand . |
| 25 | However , although several lengths behind , Clydal Pal soon moved into overdrive and picked up the leader in the home straight to win going away . |
| 26 | He sat down and picked up the sheaf of papers neatly set out on the top of his desk . |
| 27 | Charsky raised himself on an elbow and picked up the mug of coffee , while Anna slipped off her dressing gown and climbed into bed . |
| 28 | He watched the material of her shell suit strain to the limit as she bent over the coffee table and picked up the tray of cups and saucers . |
| 29 | Jean-Paul hurriedly crossed the room , and picked up the francs from the chest . |
| 30 | She took one step forward and picked up the paperweight from the vicar 's desk — a large pebble upon which Mrs Longhill had painted wild flowers as a birthday present for her husband . |