Example sentences of "[noun pl] picked [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman was wandering at random , in loose zigzags it seemed , until Jay 's eyes picked out the curling shifting edge of the sea . |
| 2 | Three inches in from the portal , Kirov 's keen eyes picked out the single human hair which he had fixed , with a smear of soapstone , between the door and the bare wooden floor . |
| 3 | The senders of the first 500 correct entries picked out the hat on that date will become Tizer Club members and get their super Tizer Club kits . |
| 4 | She crossed the room and with a resolute shrug of her shoulders picked up the receiver . |
| 5 | Kate 's quick ears picked up the remembered bitterness . |
| 6 | Then his ears picked up the soft pattering of multiple animal feet , and the sound of undergrowth being brushed lightly aside by swiftly moving bodies . |
| 7 | Cigarette companies picked up the idea a hundred years later and included romances in each packet of cigarettes . |
| 8 | Their lights picked out the graffiti of long-dead people — prayers , curses , obscenities , threats — and what might have been messages in alien script or in the calligraphy of madness . |
| 9 | Other Counsellors ' viewpoints picked out the wrecked pod , various parts of the slope and the gulley , and the four human targets . |
| 10 | One of the officers picked up the packet from the coffee table and counted fifteen more joints . |
| 11 | The students picked up the lack of concern on the part of their teachers and became indifferent . |
| 12 | The incident began when two settlers picked up the Arab , 19 , in their jeep at the edge of Susiya settlement . |