Example sentences of "he picked up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He picked up a corkscrew and began to open a bottle of wine . |
| 2 | Instead , he picked up a stone and threw it into the bushes , then made a noise that sounded suspiciously like ‘ shoo , shoo ’ . |
| 3 | He picked up a groin injury during his heroic performance in Lions colours in France and , with exhaustion probably exacerbating his condition , he makes way for David Thresher in the second row . |
| 4 | He picked up a few tricks of the trade as he progressed . |
| 5 | Then he picked up a rock from the shallow water at the edge of the pool and threw it out into the middle , making a huge splash ; the rings of the splash spread nearly to the edge of the pool . |
| 6 | He picked up a small square object from his desk , with wires leading from it . |
| 7 | He picked up a newspaper and looked through its pages . |
| 8 | He picked up a bronze of a naked beauty , standing on a shell . |
| 9 | In his anger and frustration , he picked up a long , curved clothes brush and banged it down hard on the surface of the table . |
| 10 | He picked up a piece of paper with some writing on it , could not decipher the writing , and dropped it . |
| 11 | My father was in a mad rage and — she now bowed her head — ‘ he picked up a shovel and threw it . |
| 12 | For example , for the sentence ‘ He picked up a jack ’ , two structures would be produced , differing in the sense of ‘ jack ’ they contained ( playing card or repair implement ) , but both containing a substructure representing the unresolved pronoun . |
| 13 | In the network fragment for each reading of ‘ He picked up a jack ’ , there would be a node for each of ‘ he ’ , the jack , and the specified action of picking up , and the links between these would be labelled by case names . |
| 14 | One QLF for ‘ He picked up a jack ’ would be |
| 15 | If the constant john1 is salient when ‘ He picked up a jack ’ is input , the resolved LF might be |
| 16 | He picked up a pint mug and leaned towards the cider barrel . |
| 17 | Finally he picked up a handful of stones and every time he looked round and found her following , he threw one . |
| 18 | He picked up a vicious-looking knife and incised the scalp from ear to ear , passing the blade behind the vertex of the head . |
| 19 | He picked up a bunch of bananas and threw them at his son-in-law , hitting him so hard in the chest that Changez toppled off his stool and badly bruised his good arm . |
| 20 | When he had recovered , he picked up a pencil and ruler , drew two straight lines , wrote ‘ Beech' in between them and handed the pencil to Willie . |
| 21 | He delivered a sermon during which everyone stood still , until he picked up a handful of earth and spoke in a deep voice : ‘ Ashes to ashes . |
| 22 | He picked up a torch and was about to board the Delos when a hand holding a pair of goggles reached out and stopped him . |
| 23 | He picked up a crystal decanter of amber liqueur , set it down . |
| 24 | On his way up the paved path between walls of rose bushes he picked up a piece of old iron pipe with his gloved hand . |
| 25 | Newman enquired as he picked up a cup . |
| 26 | He picked up a packet of mints and said tot he cashier : ‘ That gormless Lancastrian out there will pay for these — he has got the brains of a chocolate mouse . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ As for the terms in which St Paul expressed it — well , there you are he used any sort of figure that came to hand : he picked up a rhetorical metaphor from a cynic preaching in the market … . |
| 28 | He picked up a stone and flung it into the horse pond . |
| 29 | After lifting the European Formula Three crown in 1979 , he was offered a position alongside John Watson in the McLaren Formula One team for 1980 and he picked up a point on his debut in the Argentine Grand Prix . |
| 30 | He picked up a pot of turquoise eyeshadow , dipped his forefinger in it , and scrawled across her buttocks , GREAT ASS . |