Example sentences of "pick [adv prt] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | For long-range fishing you can do without the elasticity , for picking up a long length of line and planting a hook is difficult enough without any ‘ give ’ . |
| 2 | ( Picking up a long nail . ) |
| 3 | ‘ This was her school project , ’ he explains , picking up a long computer print-out . |
| 4 | The rod , in order to pick up a long length of sunken line , should be a minimum of 11ft long , and a maximum of 12ft or it becomes unwieldy . |
| 5 | His experiments on the nature of lightning were truly pioneering , starting at Marly in France where a dragoon was persuaded to pick up a long brass wire inside a glass bottle which acted as an insulator . |
| 6 | Such a rod casts long and accurately ; picks up a long line without maniacal exertion , and remains soft enough in the tip to retain the necessary shock-absorber effect . |
| 7 | She saw him pick up a long strip of heavy material . |
| 8 | In his anger and frustration , he picked up a long , curved clothes brush and banged it down hard on the surface of the table . |
| 9 | The Bishop picked up a long thin parchment-knife and balanced it in a vein-streaked , brown-spotted hand . |
| 10 | Then the old man picked up a long piece of wood . |
| 11 | He picked up a long knife . |
| 12 | He opened this and , from the darkness , picked up a long , narrow ladder , the type soldiers climb when scaling a castle wall , or a tiler might use when working on the roof of a house . |
| 13 | Then he picked up a long poker from the fireplace and had it like a rifle when he played the tape again . |