Example sentences of "picked [adv prt] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quoting from the L'Express story , the Independent described him as ‘ an associate of one of two Libyan secret agents picked up in Senegal in February 1988 , in possession of a trigger device identical to the one recovered from the Lockerbie wreckage ’ . |
| 2 | Match with one picked up in Amsterdam six weeks ago . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm also trying to shake off a cold which I picked up in Belgium . ’ |
| 4 | Replacements such as furniture and curtains which I picked up in auction sales we kept in what we called the dry store . |
| 5 | We 'd get the day 's batch of informants from Lebanon , picked up in Larnaca off the morning ferry . |
| 6 | Chris Lewis bowled in the nets without suffering a reaction to a thigh injury he picked up in Calcutta , while fellow paceman Phil DeFreitas is also back in contention for a place . |
| 7 | ‘ You wrote an article about Eliot in a feminist magazine I picked up in Blackwell 's . |
| 8 | Gave me first edition of Alekhine 's Best Games picked up in Delhi . |
| 9 | He also wants Andersson to have treatment on an ankle injury he picked up in training . |
| 10 | The most celebrated of these is the Boston Goddess , a highly detailed representation of the Snake Goddess with details picked out in gold . |
| 11 | The upright against which he rested stretched up like a great squared pillar into the ceiling high overhead , white-painted , the simplicity of its design emphasised by the seven pictograms carved into the wood and picked out in gold leaf-the characters forming couplets with those on the matching upright . |
| 12 | The museum houses an informative display of stones , with some of the engraved patterns picked out in colour by the American artist Marianna Lines , who has tried to achieve authentic hues by using natural pigment dyes . |
| 13 | It was a handsome building , much embellished by scrollwork picked out in cream , and topped by a tower something between a lighthouse and a campanile on which was displayed in enormous , twinkling light bulbs . |
| 14 | In Philadelphia the skyline was emblazoned with the words ‘ Welcome home Joe Cicippio ’ picked out in lights on the skyscrapers — and President George Bush led the welcome . |
| 15 | The walls have been painted a deep coral pink with mouldings picked out in white . |
| 16 | Dove-grey walls , the ornate cornice picked out in white . |
| 17 | As mentioned in the May issue of Medau News Bedu celebrated her 50th birthday this year , and with it , 25 years of Medau teaching ; to mark the occasion she was presented with a silver pendant in the form of a framed Medau logo in silver , along with a birthday cake iced in blue , with hoops , clubs and balls picked out in white . |
| 18 | Watched by an enthusiastic crowd of train-buffs and possibly even some Scotsman fans , the editor , Magnus Linklater , unveiled the nameplate carrying the paper 's titlepiece , with its bristling thistle picked out in silver against a background of deep red . |