Example sentences of "i picked up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I picked up a bit of naan bread and mopped up my curry sauce . |
| 2 | But the pitch was wet when I picked up a swag against them at Bradford . |
| 3 | Later I picked up a station from Orlando , WINS — I listened to a maudlin piece about the poor families of soldiers and pilots . |
| 4 | I picked up a pair of combat boots from a pile in the corner , found some laces , and looked at the other people wondering with whom I could swop my uniform . |
| 5 | One of the most arduous of these was in my junior days when I picked up a seaman in the docks attempting to sell cigarettes to a factory worker . |
| 6 | ‘ I picked up a bug in Germany at the weekend ’ explained McManus , who contested a European League game in Augsburg , where more than eight inches of snow fell in 48 hours . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't like making excuses but I picked up a bug in Germany at the weekend and have n't been able to shake it off , ’ explained world No13 McManus . |
| 8 | And I picked up a load of washing the other day and put it in the washing machine and I washed it . |
| 9 | I picked up a handful of dirty snow and brushed the crust off the top . |
| 10 | I picked up a lot about different species and their habitat , simply by listening to Maureen talk about the lifestyles of the birds she was looking after . |
| 11 | At the meat fridge I picked up a pack of ground beef . |
| 12 | And I picked up a pack of contraceptives . |
| 13 | I picked up a towel off the floor — it was still damp — and his ordinary clothes , the creaseless grey flannels and aged corduroy jacket which he wore day in , day out , were slung across the bed . |
| 14 | They left , and while the adults were talking and stuffing themselves , I picked up a piece of pig 's pudding for Frankie who was still huddled by the fire . |
| 15 | I was in a French class at school when I picked up a copy of the magazine , which had been lying on one of the tables . |
| 16 | A few weeks ago I picked up a tray of plants from the greenhouse border and was delighted to see a baby toad sitting in a hallow in the soil . |
| 17 | Cos I picked up the Chester to Wrexham one instead of the Snowdonia one . |
| 18 | I picked up the bottle beside me and took another long swig . |
| 19 | For answer , I picked up the newspaper from where I 'd thrown it on the desk . |
| 20 | I picked up the stack of mail from the coffee-table and dealt myself one off the bottom : the envelope that contains my monthly bank statement , with its familiar brown matt and the wax seal like a blob of blood . |
| 21 | As I picked up the knife from the rubble by the table I was waking . |
| 22 | Then I picked up the lights of Burnham to starboard , and knew roughly where I was . |
| 23 | So I picked up the thing with an empty bottle and put it in the , on the kitchen . |
| 24 | I believe I picked up the tape-recorder in much the same spirit — because I felt that whatever we did here ought to have a rather spontaneous feel to it , and yet at the same time be noticeably hard-wearing . |
| 25 | At half-past twelve on the next day , 24 December , I picked up the shafts of the wheelbarrow and pushed off towards Kano on those first , torturous , thirteen miles . |
| 26 | When I got home I picked up the threads of my ordinary life again very quickly — you might say I snatched them up , and plunged into a round of work and social life deliberately intended to give me as few idle moments as possible . |
| 27 | Erm so two pounds of that went with sale with the sale of the journal and so we can say we had twelve pounds unsolicited donations , erm as Peggy would back me up if she was here , saying that any time you ask someone to sign the flood gates open with what they thought about the position of pensioners , in fact we 've probably got a lot more signatures if they had n't , but erm , we did pick up , we , I picked up the news about Welwyn Garden City 's cost of and things like that not going through and erm , erm , now , our month our monthly , our monthly stall will not be on the third third Thursday this year , it will be on the fourth to co-inside with the week were celebrating pensioner 's week , which is a week behind National . |