Example sentences of "[was/were] picked up in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were picked up in London , Essex , Hertfordshire , Bedfordshire , Bucks , Dorset , and Newcastle . |
| 2 | While Eloise was sailed round to Holyhead with a prize crew from the cutters on board , more arrests were being made around the country and suspects were picked up in Sussex , Dorset , London , South Wales and County Durham . |
| 3 | For it was in St Jude 's Passage that such corpses as were picked up in Frizingley — whether they had been reported missing or not — were usually found . |
| 4 | ‘ By the time it was picked up in France I 'd had toxoplasmosis in my bloodstream for two months . |
| 5 | Well that gave me a start of course , so immediately I got a warrant out , and he , some while afterwards he was picked up in London . |
| 6 | If a stranger was picked up in Ipswich . |
| 7 | THIS bronze handle ( fig. 6.1 ) was picked up in April 1967 by Mr J. A. Hadman from the surface of a field half a mile to the north-east of Oundle , Northants. , on the east side of the River Nene ( Nat . |