Example sentences of "and pick [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And obviously that you can do , but it takes time , it 's quicker just to walk into a travel agent and pick up a cheap bargain . |
| 2 | Now I lean forward and pick up a dead bird whose wings sag open like a fan or like the streets of Berlin under their cam nets . |
| 3 | I am ushered reverently into a cabin and pick up the quaint hand set , which has an additional round earpiece for clamping over the spare ear , so that I see myself reflected in the glass like a radio operator or a session singer . |
| 4 | ‘ Then come with me and pick up the latest reports . |
| 5 | When you have finished — it might take five minutes or five hours — look through your notes and pick out the central themes . |
| 6 | She wandered back to the dressing-table and stood fiddling and picking over every little object on it . |
| 7 | ‘ Watch ! ’ he insisted , and picking up a fallen bough , threw it into the midst of this dark greenness . |
| 8 | ‘ What I would n't agree with is someone coming over here to play and picking up a cheap cap . |
| 9 | I think it is going into your subconscious and picking up a whole series of signals . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , well , ’ she said , bending down and picking up the little frog , ‘ what have we here then ? ’ |
| 11 | Agrippa smiled , going up beside the doctor and picking up the white rose . |
| 12 | Richard had already been remarked as the kind of small boy enchanted by small girls and deaf to the ridicule of his peers on the matter ; on this occasion he watched Victoria twist her curls around her fingers in motionless fascination for ten minutes , then followed her for the rest of the afternoon , fetching drinks and finding seats , carrying her favourite blue rabbit when she dropped it and picking out the choicest pieces of bread and butter for her at tea . |
| 13 | Learn the right way to get out of bed , and to pick up a heavy object . |
| 14 | Eventually , with luck , it finds and picks up a tiny insect corpse . |
| 15 | You could then lean back and pick up the front foot , thrusting it straight into the opponent 's solar plexus . |
| 16 | The old woman dropped the Access card into her pinafore pocket and picked up a framed photograph from a small table near the window . |
| 17 | And eventually in exasperation the bird flew a short way down the beach and picked up a small stone in its beak and then it returned and it bashed the shell repeatedly until it cracked it open and it was able to get at the contents inside . |
| 18 | 4 children from Swindon picked up lambs here at Southleaze farm and picked up a dangerous parasite , cryptosporidium . |
| 19 | Zambia slid to the floor near Tammuz' chair and picked up a fallen Munchi-Chip to eat . |
| 20 | Craig reached into his pocket and caressed his lucky deck of cards , then felt around with his other hand and picked up a flat toolcase made of heavy-duty plastic . |
| 21 | Masklin crouched down , slowly , and picked up a large stone . |
| 22 | Willi bustled over to the dresser that stretched along one side of the room and picked up a huge basket of flowers . |
| 23 | Thomas Logan was the fortunate geezer who entered a Radio Clyde competition and picked up a free Washburn guitar at our recent Scottish Show . |
| 24 | Antonio laced more ketchup onto the remaining burger and picked up a French fry . |
| 25 | She pulled it round her and picked up a heavy torch . |
| 26 | He stood and picked up the small bowl he had brought , walking through to her bathroom to empty it . |
| 27 | Nintendo 's machines hit British shops in autumn 1990 but it was last Christmas , when it outsold everything else in sight and picked up the prestigious Toy Of The Year award , that things really took off . |
| 28 | He pulled on the coat , adjusted a slouch hat and picked up the overnight bag she had prepared . |
| 29 | He jotted the three names down on a slip of paper with a gesture of finality and picked up the internal telephone , stabbing out the number for the code-room . |
| 30 | Then she stood up , turned to the sink again and picked up the rust-coloured casserole dish from where she had left it . |