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Example sentences of "[pron] pick up the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I know what a flea and a slug look like , I do n't want to be frightened to death every time I pick up the packet .
2	I pick up the ‘ Glass Dildo ’ photo again and this time I am struck by Cicciolina 's expressiveness .
3	It moves another two inches and stops , then another two inches and stops , and continues like so until I pick up the rod and strike .
4	‘ I pick up the pencil , put it back , climb into the trunk of the car and you drive me to see the boy .
5	I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen .
6	I pick up the scissors because I 'm alone in the shop and if he touches me again he 'll leave without something he came in with , when the bell goes on the door and this other boy in a city suit comes in , boring yuppie sort .
7	Erm yeah , the the the axe to grind is is yes , I pick up the the the political stick here er , that was you know , that that , you know from the other the other end to you and yeah , yes I also think we 're being beaten with a with a with a stick here for three R's er , if we 're forced into the corner of having to use an ignorant white hall idiots er
8	I pick up the paper and think about my father 's Social Security card sitting on my desk at home .
9	I pick up the bike and return it to the shed .
10	I pick up the cards and deal a circle for Clock Patience .
11	In the front seat by Des I fiddle with my receiver till I pick up the signal from the mike in his pocket .
12	I pick up the gun and pocket it .
13	I pick up the dangling greasy weight by the hooves soft as dogs ' pads
14	Instead , I pick up the clock on it and I see it is half-past six .
15	I pick up the phone .
16	I pick up the receiver .
17	I pick up the phone again and dial the Home Office .
18	go I pick up the accent .
19	I picks up the phone and dialled a special number for the fraud squad .
20	What d' ya want to know when someone picks up the phone .
21	( Why Why did I pick up the telephone )
22	Why ca n't I pick up the phone and say , Come on , darling ?
23	And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head .
24	I picked up the Evening News from one of the street sellers and looked through its entertainment pages .
25	At last , I picked up the directory and began to look for the telephone number of a solicitor .
26	I picked up the nearest coil and began to gather it up , but whereas in the summer heat the pipe had been soft and flexible , it now had the consistency of a steel cable and was like trying to lift a bedframe designed by Salvador Dali .
27	I picked up the jar which was slippery on the outside from dripped paint and , screwing its lid on , dropped it with the brush into a plastic bag before stowing it again in my pouch .
28	‘ But this is what really gets at me : when we started our run in , and I picked up the diaper , I found it was already stained .
29	I picked up the box and shook it as the crumbs fell out on the pavement .
30	At half-past twelve on the next day , 24 December , I picked up the shafts of the wheelbarrow and pushed off towards Kano on those first , torturous , thirteen miles .