Example sentences of "she picked up the [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 In the queue , she picked up the smell of long-term poverty .
2 He was amused to observe that she forced herself to be a blank when she picked up the bowl of pus and blood .
3 She picked up the basket of flowers from the ground .
4 She picked up the list of names and looked at it carefully .
5 Then she picked up the book of ‘ psychological correspondences ’ again and began with difficulty to read the letters .
6 And she picked up the plate of spurned buck rarebit and emptied it into the bin under the counter .
7 She picked up the slips of pasteboard and let them fall haphazardly on the table in front of them .
8 She picked up the string of the cardboard box containing her gas mask and slung it over her shoulder .
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