Example sentences of "[verb] picked up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin Birchall has picked up the Photographer of the Year award for the second time . |
| 2 | And I have to say that it was after we had done a course for them on really bad press releases , because we , they had done some pretty awful press releases in the past , and we were delighted when that one came out because it actually showed that they 'd picked up the message . |
| 3 | So if it was , you would n't know that of course if you 'd picked up the phone , would you ? |
| 4 | Then he had deposited the champagne bottle on a small occasional table , next to a sleek ivory-coloured object that Folly had just about recognised as a phone , and she had watched in horrified fascination as he 'd picked up the receiver and started to tap out a number . |
| 5 | He 'd picked up the baby and held her while Ma gave her the medicine , and his face had the same look as when Billy had fallen in the river . |
| 6 | But as he looked at her innocent lips , he thought this pure child of nature could only have picked up the question from others . |
| 7 | You would have picked up the parcel and you would have delivered it yourself . |
| 8 | Could n't have picked up the pen and opened the notebook and faced the blank page . |
| 9 | Folly felt an urge to wash , as if the words had been printed in dark , inky type in the headline of a tabloid newspaper and her hands might have picked up the stain . |
| 10 | But Faye and Roberta — well , they are n't middle class , to put it mildly , but surely they — yes , they would have picked up the know-how , the expertise , so if they did n't get things straight , it is because they did n't want to . |
| 11 | Some market men said they believed Smith was trying to support the price because the firm was already heavily exposed to Ferranti , having picked up the bulk of shares placed at 81p in July by Jim Guerin , International Signal and Control 's former chairman . |
| 12 | ‘ The African guide was nowhere to be seen so Slash picked up the guy 's rifle and began firing into the air , trying desperately to scare the elephants away , ’ said another friend of the star . |
| 13 | The persons alleged to have picked up the letter then chase the accusers round the circle and try to catch them before they sit in the empty space , as in the previous game . |
| 14 | Actually they 've picked up the pace Forest since the goal erm do n't this Leicester are playing anywhere near as well as they were at the time they scored . |
| 15 | Cowley had picked up the phone and was listening quietly . |
| 16 | He had picked up the phone and was asking Celia to show their visitor up , James Morris glanced disdainfully at the new manager . |
| 17 | The man had picked up the ball , and peered down at Nick through dark-rimmed , bleary eyes . |
| 18 | Poshekhonov said that he had found the way to laugh , he had picked up the spear of ridicule . |
| 19 | Maxim had picked up the story from friends in the Intelligence Corps . |
| 20 | It was because Mrs Strawson was five minutes late — behaviour he made no demur at , though he would have refused to see a National Health patient who failed to turn up on time — that he had picked up the Standard and seen that paragraph . |
| 21 | They had picked up the man at the bottom of the hill . |
| 22 | Somehow I had picked up the idea that putting the patient in a tub of hot water sometimes had the desired effect . |
| 23 | Norma had picked up the idea from a little woman in Brixton . |
| 24 | People who had had experience of the National Assembly , where much the same procedures were followed , or who had picked up the style from televised broadcasts of it , were at a decided advantage . |
| 25 | Earlier , avoiding Matey 's compressed lips , he had picked up the whisky bottle and reached for a glass — anything , so long as he achieved oblivion , surcease from pain — and then he had heard her voice again , in the corridor at the church hall , mockingly telling him to retreat to it . |
| 26 | Miss Braithwaite had picked up the gap in Hereward 's curriculum vitae fast enough . |
| 27 | Richie had picked up the urgency in his voice and had stopped chewing . |
| 28 | UNIT had been routinely monitoring the signals in the area and had picked up the SOS messages from the passenger aircraft . |
| 29 | The three-year-old had picked up the patter from watching his dad Keith on the airwaves . |
| 30 | He said he had never seen the drugs before , claiming he had picked up the syringe after seeing it lying around before the party . |