Example sentences of "she picked [adv prt] 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 . |