Example sentences of "[pers pn] picked up a " in BNC.
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| 31 | I picked up a dental chisel and resolved to sell my life dearly . |
| 32 | At the meat fridge I picked up a pack of ground beef . |
| 33 | And I picked up a pack of contraceptives . |
| 34 | I picked up a young man on my first journey out of Durham about 6.30 on the morning . |
| 35 | ‘ The first time I picked up a 12 bore , it was bigger than me and the men all laughed . |
| 36 | ‘ I picked up a bug in Germany at the weekend ’ explained McManus , who contested a European League game in Augsburg , where more than eight inches of snow fell in 48 hours . |
| 37 | ‘ I do n't like making excuses but I picked up a bug in Germany at the weekend and have n't been able to shake it off , ’ explained world No13 McManus . |
| 38 | And I picked up a load of washing the other day and put it in the washing machine and I washed it . |
| 39 | She picked up a pen , and started to write , in English . |
| 40 | She picked up a sleek length of smoked silver . |
| 41 | In the living room she picked up a couple of wine glasses from the floor and set them down on a coffee table . |
| 42 | She picked up a handful of cotton fluff and pulled at it . |
| 43 | She picked up a small piece of paper lying beside her and began turning it over and over in her fingers . |
| 44 | A Liberty scarf was wrapped round her head and she picked up a travelling case . |
| 45 | The Moon was so angry with the hare 's evasions that she picked up a hatchet to chop off his head , but missed her aim and cut the hare on the mouth . |
| 46 | She picked up a hand mirror , but what she saw was not reassuring ; the harsh overhead light remorselessly picked out the tiny lines at the corners of her mouth , the discoloured skin around her eyes , the dry , wrinkled neck . |
| 47 | She picked up a bucket filled with weeds . |
| 48 | She picked up a brass poker and stirred up the fire which already burnt brightly in the grate . |
| 49 | She picked up a New York paper from the pile on the coffee table . |
| 50 | But Miss Angus slapped her wrist sharply with a teaspoon , as she picked up a paperback with her other hand and examined it closely . |
| 51 | Moving to the sideboard , she picked up a pack of Chesterfields and lit one with trembling hands . |
| 52 | After she had gulped the pancake , she picked up a shrimp and ate that saying : ‘ I like that . ’ |
| 53 | A WOMAN was stung by a scorpion when she picked up a bunch of bananas in a supermarket . |
| 54 | Then , she picked up a half-brick and threw it through the drugstore window . |
| 55 | She picked up a few more guns from corpses , and did n't feel naked any more . |
| 56 | Then she picked up a pencil and quickly worked out the sum on a piece of paper . |
| 57 | In the decaying ward of an AIDS hospital , she picked up a dying seven-year-old boy and cuddled him to her . |
| 58 | Turning awkwardly towards the bedside table , she picked up a glass of water and sipped the warm liquid gratefully . |
| 59 | Another time she cut herself with the serrated edge of a lemon slicer ; on yet another occasion , during a heated argument with Prince Charles , she picked up a penknife lying on his dressing table and cut her chest and her thighs . |
| 60 | She picked up a leather-bound volume . |