Example sentences of "picked up the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quiss picked up the small attendant by the front of its cloak and brought its blank face up to his own , scraping the creature 's green boots over the surface of the draining board with a rattling noise . |
| 2 | Her dark-brown skin picked up the deadening light inside the train and reflected it strangely so that her face looked almost silver . |
| 3 | I picked up The New Principles of Gardening , a leather-bound tome by Batty Langley ( d. 1751 ) and wondered when she would have been b . |
| 4 | The correspondent of The Times in Riga , with access to both current Western and Soviet sources , picked up the discrepant views of M. Litvinov at the Hague and L. Krasin , the Commissar for Trade in Moscow . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He exchanged a polite smile with the secretary after Karen had left , then picked up the only magazine on the coffee table and leafed through it , his interest not overly stimulated by a computer programming manual written in German . |
| 7 | As she went she picked up the expensive bottle of wine . |
| 8 | Maud picked up the top letter on each pile . |
| 9 | Paul also picked up the monthly prize for February when other winners were Peter Daly ( South Home Counties ) , Bob Bray ( Midlands and South West England ) , Alastair Valentine ( East Scotland ) , Paul Melvin ( Glasgow ) and Marjory Simpson ( North Scotland ) . |
| 10 | Athelstan picked up the yellowing piece of parchment and thrust it at them . |
| 11 | The British Lions were amused to read of the plight of referee Steve McNally when they picked up the local paper in Paihia before the first match of their New Zealand tour . |
| 12 | She picked up The Social Aspects of Illness . |
| 13 | There was not much point in working harder or taking risks if the taxman picked up the main benefit of one 's success . |
| 14 | Then the Judge picked up the stiff body of the student in his arms . |
| 15 | Léonie picked up the wet cake of soap from the tin dish stencilled with poppies and washed her hands . |
| 16 | Then his ears picked up the soft pattering of multiple animal feet , and the sound of undergrowth being brushed lightly aside by swiftly moving bodies . |
| 17 | Black picked up the loose pile of paper just faxed through from Glasgow , |
| 18 | She picked up the sheet-white leg of her murdered boy and warmed it by the fire . |