Example sentences of "picked [pron] up [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toby picked me up bodily and carried me to his bed . |
| 2 | Alec Reid picked me up sharp at six , and gave an approving glance at my clean shirt , spotless white trousers ( bought off the peg in Sydney ) and the fact that I wore a tie . |
| 3 | He had overshot by fifty yards but , since there was no room to turn , he 'd backed up to the junction in a rapid , snaky line , and picked them up again after ten minutes of anxious-cautious driving — fast on the straights , slow on the bends . |
| 4 | Anyway Steve picked them up here . |
| 5 | Anyway Steve picked them up here and then dropped them off |
| 6 | Melanie picked them up wearily . |
| 7 | When we picked them up there was so many , it was just unbelievable . |
| 8 | That event & 's separation in the same year blighted by retirement … but is now divorced & we 've all brushed ourselves down & picked ourselves up again ! ) ) |
| 9 | Vincent picked himself up slowly and rubbed his ribs . |
| 10 | Jack picked himself up painfully . |
| 11 | You know right away picked you up right away . |
| 12 | I know keep , I picked everything up so I can get my lamp on , I , after I put the lamp on |
| 13 | This one' — he picked one up gingerly , near to the tip — ‘ says it is the reincarnation of Cleopatra 's asp . |
| 14 | It picked him up immensely . |
| 15 | Alex worked himself into a crimson-faced rage and bit the curled corner of the carpet , whereupon Marie picked him up bodily and carried him out of the room . |
| 16 | No he said , and I went over and I picked him up anyway , and sat him on , I sat him on my knee and I said we 'll just do some rhymes and I could feel him sort of going mm , mm , mm , like they do all pathetic and whiny , anyway Phyllis arrived and afterwards it was , by then he had calmed down and he was fine and I said wan na read the story now cos he missed it of course when he decided he could n't do without his car , so I said next week perhaps come without your car , I think I 'd won him over by the end but , it was a bit hairy . |
| 17 | I picked him up gently , just to move him back so that I could look into the box … |
| 18 | They picked him up there but he shook them off . ’ |
| 19 | the morning again , and we took Daniel up to the er , cos there was a station , Christopher picked him up there and off they went you see so erm have n't heard anything I presume he got back alright but as I say |
| 20 | Eb picked him up quickly . |
| 21 | Dr Neil picked her up immediately , saying , ‘ And your papa , McAllister — he did not object to your mama working ? |
| 22 | ‘ I picked her up too , ’ said the chauffeur . |
| 23 | And the buzzard , who had been waiting hidden in the branches of- an oak tree , swooped down , picked her up as carefully as if she were made of rose petals , and carried her back to the forest . |
| 24 | We picked her up then and carried her out , dumping her , limp as a sailbag , on the back seat . |
| 25 | He picked it up crossly , but after listening for a few moments , his expression softened and he nodded twice . |
| 26 | Talbot picked it up immediately , a thin black column of smoke rising vertically , unwaveringly , into the blue and windless sky . |
| 27 | He picked it up immediately , a heavy dark plume of smoke with , he thought , a glow of red at its centre . |
| 28 | He picked it up immediately and looked at it closely , his hands shaking . |
| 29 | And we cheered and laughed at its chequered progress — and picked it up again and again because it was still too weak to get up alone . |
| 30 | He then picked it up delicately between thumb and forefinger , as if he held something highly vulnerable in tweezers . |