Example sentences of "[noun sg] picked up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first watcher picked up the red phone nearby and punched out three digits . |
| 2 | Then the Judge picked up the stiff body of the student in his arms . |
| 3 | Granny picked up the last of the things they had cleared out of the cupboards and looked at it . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , the woman in question picked up the piece of paper with her name and address on along with all the Sanctuary 's records , and has not been seen since . |
| 5 | The boy picked up the knife and was about to cut into the cake when he stopped . |
| 6 | The girl picked up the receiver , soap suds streaming on to its cover . |
| 7 | The old lady picked up the glass and pulled a face . |
| 8 | The sun picked up the colours of a girl 's dress . |
| 9 | At last week 's advertising awards , the Esso tiger picked up the Best Animal trophy when to me it was obvious that the Andrex puppy was the better creature . |
| 10 | The general picked up the phone and dialled . |
| 11 | The Keeper picked up the cage and backed out , his helper careful to close the gate quickly behind him as he came out . |
| 12 | Well a great situation Scott Gemmell followed up the long ball picked up the as they ran at the defence and then he 's committed to play it and then he 's just just slid it in nicely for Kingsley Black on his left side . |
| 13 | HOLLYWOOD heart-throb Tom Cruise picked up the bill for a group of students he saw trying to impress their girlfriends . |
| 14 | The sentry picked up the tags , stared at the photos and at our faces . |
| 15 | His wife picked up the phone believing it was an anniversary treat from her husband . |
| 16 | Kathleen had never been one for jewellery and the amethyst picked up the heather mauve of Isabel 's new dress and even , she thought , gave something of a fresh nuance to her mist-blue eyes . |
| 17 | The child sat down , more from surprise than the force of the blow ; the woman picked up the shopping bags and walked on ; she knew that she was in danger of missing the train now . |
| 18 | Anyway , everybody rushed out into the kitchen and cook found some ice and wrapped it up in white cloth and then this woman picked up the toad and put it back in the garden but with the ice in her hands . |
| 19 | The guide picked up the rifle , shot and castrated him , and made off . |
| 20 | My father picked up the Book of Remembering . |
| 21 | The rod-bending bites are merely the start of a run , and it is this first powerful run , which began as soon as the barbel picked up the baited hook and gained momentum within seconds , that is the crucial time for losing fish . |
| 22 | The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years . |
| 23 | Slowly the Captain picked up the half-sovereign , and as slowly rubbed it on his sleeve . |
| 24 | The Captain picked up the external phone . |
| 25 | The orange river picked up the rejection letter and open cigarette packet in its path and floated them over onto X 's lap . |
| 26 | Picked up the pace picked up the square ball here and attacked he went went like a bomb . |
| 27 | Even this far from the house , the air was permeated with the acrid stink of burning , but soon their sensitive canine smell-sense picked up the telltale odour of a man-thing . |
| 28 | FARM Minister John Gummer faces a Commons grilling after a food firm picked up the £2,600 bill to landscape his garden . |
| 29 | Lisa settled down with the bulldog clip that held the current day 's orders , and Folly picked up the accounts book . |
| 30 | The man picked up the fallen envelope , took the lift to the eighth floor , let himself into his apartment and slit open the envelope . |