Example sentences of "[vb past] picked up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up ahead Neil Coles was putting together a 66 , which eventually saw him tie with Johnny , but by the fifth or sixth , when we 'd picked up a couple of birdies to Johnny 's pars or bogey , I thought , ‘ This is our Open . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You had deliberately led me to believe that you 'd picked up a stranger in Bruges , and naturally I had assumed him to be a Belgian . ’ |
| 3 | Twenty-odd years earlier , I 'd picked up an idea from the marvellously creative Bill Brown who was Director of Billy Graham 's Crusades in 1966–7 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So if it was , you would n't know that of course if you 'd picked up the phone , would you ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Air Djibouti flight from Addis Ababa had stopped at Dire Dawa but had picked up no passengers . |
| 9 | He had picked up a fare in the City — an army deserter called Percy Toplis , who asked to be driven to Basingstoke . |
| 10 | The couple were taken to police headquarters for questioning where they admitted they had picked up a man on the night of 10 July by the harbour but did not know him and had only given him a lift into town . |
| 11 | And finally two Ayr police officers said that a shelved 1969 report showed they had picked up a man ‘ of slight build and a Glasgow accent who said his name was McGuigan or McGuinness ’ some 600 yards from the Ross bungalow in the early hours of the morning of the murder and dropped him at the bus station ; and they now declared from photographs recently shown to them that the man was William McGuinness . |
| 12 | His skin had picked up a glow from the lilies on the table . |
| 13 | His reputation as a hard man — he had picked up a conviction for GBH — had won him work on the bouncer circuit and the title ‘ King of the Bouncers ’ . |
| 14 | Alice had picked up a spoon ready to ladle out the stew on to a plate , but she paused and looked at her daughter hard as she said , ‘ You do n't know what it 's all about , do you ? |
| 15 | The 26-year-old striker later claimed he had picked up a groin injury but then breached club regulations and widened the rift with Wilkinson by failing to turn up for training or treatment on Monday and Tuesday . |
| 16 | I had picked up a bit of surgery from him , of course , so here I am . |
| 17 | He had picked up a group of experienced hunter-killers from the Phoenix NoGo , and turned them loose on the remaining sandrats . |
| 18 | It made it worse when we knew Watson had picked up a shot here . |
| 19 | So Katie made the following comment shortly after she had picked up a card showing Mitch from Baywatch : |
| 20 | I had picked up a box of letters and was glancing at them , when Frankenstein returned from above and caught me . |
| 21 | The wee lass had picked up a cloth and was wiping Hector 's unshaven chin free of grease ; then his hands , and the handle of his knife . |
| 22 | He had picked up a book and was standing there , reading it with great concentration — just as if he were in his own armchair at home . |
| 23 | Jay had picked up a pattern of sleeplessness over the last five months . |
| 24 | One little rascal had picked up a cigarette-end , still burning ( called a dog-end , or dout ) and was puffing away like a steam engine . |
| 25 | A final vote showed Tory support remained solid while the LibDems had picked up a handful of votes at Labour 's expense . |
| 26 | It was clear that she had picked up a lot from the Prince 's own style , especially the self-deprecating wit . |
| 27 | It seemed he lived at home with his widowed mother and , following a fight with her , he had picked up an axe and killed her . |
| 28 | They said that , in the narrow passageway , a corridor whose opposite walls I can touch comfortably with two hands , I had picked up an aluminium chair , ripped it in half , swung it around and hit a policeman with it so hard that he had to shield his head . |
| 29 | She had complained of stomach problems after returning and doctors at first thought she had picked up an infection in Africa . |
| 30 | Cowley had picked up the phone and was listening quietly . |