Example sentences of "[pers pn] picked up an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five years later , I picked up an NME and read a huge , slavering review of bloated AOR rock beardie Bob Seger . |
| 2 | She picked up an emptied canister from the kitchen floor . |
| 3 | And as independents Tony Carlin and William McCorriston , both formerly of the SDLP , counted their losses last night , the SDLP was celebrating victory in both the Northland Ward , where all five fielded candidates were elected , and on the Waterside , where it picked up an extra seat . |
| 4 | He picked up an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival , assembled a band behind him and played loud enough to raise the roofbeams — just like he had done in his high-school days . |
| 5 | Vic said to Emily , as he picked up an egg . |
| 6 | As Charlie paced , he picked up an old pair of frayed jeans or a wide-collared shirt with pink flowers on it , or a Barclay James Harvest album , and tossed it out of the skylight and into the garden below . |
| 7 | Besides … ’ he picked up an apple box of small shrubs and pushed past Cowley , along the damp walkway of the greenhouse . |
| 8 | Kneeling down on the floor , he picked up an empty cartridge case . |
| 9 | He picked up an old ornament : a serpent winding itself around a globe ; an appropriate image . |