Example sentences of "[pers pn] picked [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I picked up a book , but put it down again and began looking at a tiny red spider on the leaf of a geranium , ad lost count of time . |
| 2 | Later I picked up a station from Orlando , WINS — I listened to a maudlin piece about the poor families of soldiers and pilots . |
| 3 | A few weeks ago I picked up a tray of plants from the greenhouse border and was delighted to see a baby toad sitting in a hallow in the soil . |
| 4 | I picked up a likely length and laid it in the boat . |
| 5 | Then I picked up a pebble and flung it out to sea ; it rose straight up into the air and landed on the ground a few yards behind me . |
| 6 | I picked up a handful of dirty snow and brushed the crust off the top . |
| 7 | I picked up a shell to take a closer look . |
| 8 | Some years ago , walking along a riverside with a Pakistani biochemist , I picked up a flat stone and bounced it across the water . |
| 9 | I picked up a cloth and began polishing the tall flutes , and Filmer emerged from the corridor and crossed into the dining room without glancing our way . |
| 10 | I picked up a bag and jokingly said , ‘ If you do n't go we 'll bag you up and send you to Hull ’ . |
| 11 | Recently , I picked up a young bird which one of my cats had caught ; I held it in my hands in the hope that it might survive . |
| 12 | They left , and while the adults were talking and stuffing themselves , I picked up a piece of pig 's pudding for Frankie who was still huddled by the fire . |
| 13 | I picked up a lot about different species and their habitat , simply by listening to Maureen talk about the lifestyles of the birds she was looking after . |
| 14 | I picked up a number 8 brush and with bluey brown paint I drew the windows , and used a rough line to tell me where the plant at the front was . |
| 15 | I picked up a marrowbone and hit him on the head . |
| 16 | But the pitch was wet when I picked up a swag against them at Bradford . |
| 17 | He took my passport off me and told me to sit down on a bench sat against the wall ; I picked up a magazine and read it while he checked my details . |
| 18 | I was in a French class at school when I picked up a copy of the magazine , which had been lying on one of the tables . |
| 19 | I picked up a pair of combat boots from a pile in the corner , found some laces , and looked at the other people wondering with whom I could swop my uniform . |
| 20 | I picked up a Record vice in good working order — the 52½ model with quick release — for £18 , a mere quarter of today 's price . |
| 21 | The waiters were all busy at that moment so I picked up a full glass from the table and fought my way to where she was holding court in the middle of the mass — standing up , of course . |
| 22 | I picked up a towel off the floor — it was still damp — and his ordinary clothes , the creaseless grey flannels and aged corduroy jacket which he wore day in , day out , were slung across the bed . |
| 23 | Switching on my bedside lamp , I picked up a heavy , blunt instrument ( The Rothmans Football Yearbook 1986/87 and tore open the door . |
| 24 | I picked up a programme , which had been designed by one of the committee members , Sue Brown ; it was a work of art . |
| 25 | I picked up a folded-back magazine and began to read a passage pointed up in lime highlighter . |
| 26 | Then I picked up a bit of naan bread and mopped up my curry sauce . |
| 27 | I picked up a fallen branch , and as he passed I struck him on the head . |
| 28 | A little later we saw another cow and then through my glasses I picked up a bull lying down in the distance . |
| 29 | One of the most arduous of these was in my junior days when I picked up a seaman in the docks attempting to sell cigarettes to a factory worker . |
| 30 | I picked up a couple once — The Dawning of Extraordinary Being and The Zigzag Path of Super-Zen . |