Example sentences of "had pick [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though Turtons ' had selected their file indiscriminately from stock to do battle with the French champion , even though the French company had brought over a special engineer to manipulate their product while Turtons ' had picked a man at random from the Sappers and Miners at the Exhibition , the French file had been humiliated . |
| 2 | She was thinking that the girl might have lacked an umbilicus ; might have come straight from the hand of God , who having finished making the mountains had picked a bit of clay from under his thumbnail and fashioned just one more sort of person , perhaps as an experiment . |
| 3 | Even as he shouted for attention , Jesus had picked a target star and was tracking its apparent movement around the Lift . |
| 4 | Emma had picked the school , Rachaela only signed on the relevant line . |
| 5 | She had picked the word up from an English film shown on television and thought it charming . |
| 6 | res. with flagpole in landscaped garden and garaging for three motors , Marjorie had picked the curtains , ordered the colour schemes , hired the gardener and packed two large freezers with ready-cooked meals for two from Marks and Spencer 's . |
| 7 | If this was foolish , what was unforgivable was not to confess sooner — immediately I had picked the receiver up again . |
| 8 | He asked Mr Jotter who had picked the vowels and why they 'd chosen the letter ‘ u ’ instead of ‘ s ’ which he thought was a nicer shape . |
| 9 | The hike made Estabrook breathless , but he seemed glad that Gentle had picked the spot . |
| 10 | Medieval travellers usually had to pick a way over boggy ground as they came off the hills . |
| 11 | it does my house , in fact it come the other day when Kerry had to pick a battery up and I walked out the front with Kerry and he sat in the car and did n't even look at me |
| 12 | And being the one who was taking the raw material and bashing it into the records I had to pick a time to leave where it was n't going to be a huge blow to everybody else . |
| 13 | A bemused Southall found himself cautioned for time-wasting and a few seconds later had to pick the ball out of the net . |
| 14 | Palace went to Reading and poor Dick Graham had to pick the ball out of our net no less than 10 times as Palace slumped to our highest scoring League defeat . |
| 15 | We had to pick the bind out by hand , er the coal was all er sorted on the screens and er er a u u us lads , we used to stand at the side of the belts that were travelling round and tipping the coal into the wagons down below you see ? |
| 16 | ‘ He had to pick an England team from what was left after the week-end games a fortnight ago , while I found myself with just two players at Highbury for almost the entire week . |