Example sentences of "which i pick [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is other gear : another pin , from which I pick out chunky flakes with my little finger , a zero Flexible Friend behind an expanding flake which , when I leave this stance an hour later , I will rip from its placement , and a wire which rattles uselessly in a flared crack . |
| 2 | Responding to the Handsworth events Douglas Hurd was moved to argue forcibly that such events were senseless and reflected more on those who participated in them than on the society in which they took place : ‘ The sound which law abiding people in Handsworth heard on Monday night , the echoes of which I picked up on Tuesday , was not a cry for help but a cry for loot ’ ( Financial Times , 13 September 1985 ) . |
| 3 | This sad epitaph appeared in a newspaper which I picked up , under the In Memoriam notices . |
| 4 | Replacements such as furniture and curtains which I picked up in auction sales we kept in what we called the dry store . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm also trying to shake off a cold which I picked up in Belgium . ’ |