Example sentences of "i picked [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I picked up Kate in this nice old Rover . |
| 2 | Well straw I picked up strawberry jam and that was sixty two |
| 3 | Let's curl your hair , I picked up brush and comb |
| 4 | Meanwhile , during journeys to Palestine and to Egypt , I picked up copies of The Dry Salvages and Little Gidding . |
| 5 | I picked up Dorothy Wordsworth 's Journals hoping for a quiet hour or two by the river while they were manoeuvring . |
| 6 | From the witnesses , I picked up details about his work , his friends , his childhood , his Dreams . |
| 7 | Well , I er er I picked up I picked up er I picked up people in London , but , locally locally er I went er individually . |
| 8 | I picked up Eddie just as it started to rain again , and we chatted all the way back to Simon 's office while she dressed herself in street clothes from a Sainsbury 's shopping-bag . |
| 9 | It was there that I picked up Tom Phillips , an artist who was just beginning to be sought after . |
| 10 | I picked out notes where he had just screwed up totally , but then I went back to the beginning again and realised that the whole song was just shifted . |