Example sentences of "his [noun] pick [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When his coolie picked up the shafts and broke into his loping stride , Joseph found he could n't look at the narrow , sweat-streaked shoulders bobbing in front of him without seeing the bleeding welts caused by the French colon 's cane . |
| 2 | Ven replied , the corners of his mouth picking up delightfully . |
| 3 | But looking at him still , she saw the corners of his mouth pick up slightly , and suddenly , so were the corners of her mouth , because , ‘ My friends call me Ven , ’ he advised her , and solemnly added , ‘ Fabia . ’ |
| 4 | He has just broken one of his records deliberately and is on his knees picking up the pieces as he talks to himself . |
| 5 | Outside his ears picked up for the first time the rustling of invisible leaves and the rattle of window-frames : the wind was rising . |
| 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 | Passing between the granite houses lining the main street of Moretonhampstead , he drove on , his headlights picking out the bends in the serpentine road . |
| 8 | His headlights picked out Curly Top in the black uniform . |
| 9 | The man 's wife had wasted no time going through his closets picking up worn and odd pairs . |
| 10 | If his guests picked up some pleasant female company at her party then that was fine … as long as they did n't enjoy that same female company on the premises . |
| 11 | Maurice Cottrell , who lives at the same nursing home as Les , was lucky enough to have his name picked out of the hat . |
| 12 | Stair saw his brother and came forward to greet him , Havvie still at his side , his wife picking up and putting things down as though they were contaminated — she had not married Havvie in order to slum it , as she later said . |
| 13 | His wife picked up the phone believing it was an anniversary treat from her husband . |
| 14 | Urquhart slowed his pace and glanced around , his head picked out by an orange-yellow from the street lamps . |
| 15 | ‘ Nibs McGovern met that train every day with his trolley to pick up the papers and the Boland loaves that the shops got for special customers . |
| 16 | His child-heart picking up the tribal beam , |
| 17 | His visitor picked up her gloves and handbag . |
| 18 | GRAHAM TAYLOR is challenging his internationals to pick up the fallen standard of English football , after Wednesday night 's triple European club disaster . |
| 19 | GRAHAM TAYLOR is challenging his internationals to pick up the fallen standard of English football , after Wednesday night 's triple European disaster . |
| 20 | And his hand picked up a dropped boot to hurl it against the crackling plastic doors . |
| 21 | On the left , Dunbar held his hand and re-deployed his archers to pick off any strays who might still offer a safe target . |
| 22 | We caught him as he was on his way to pick up a faulty music amplifier he was getting fixed . |
| 23 | As usual , Maria Grazia answered and then yelled to his mother to pick up the extension phone by her chair , in the deep underwater gloom of the living room . |
| 24 | Niki Lauda displayed courage beyond all recognition in 1976 when , six weeks after being given the Last Rites , he was back behind the wheel of his Ferrari picking up points in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza . |
| 25 | with his cornice picked out in Kokoshka . ’ |