Example sentences of "picked up [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | He picked up the tongs to check the meat . |
2 | It picked up the principles ( as it called them ) enunciated by HMI , that is , breadth , balance , relevance , and differentiation . |
3 | With this message already composed in his mind , William Joyce picked up the suitcases and led his wife from the echoing terminus of glass and iron . |
4 | He picked up the cases and she took their hand-cases and they walked home , passing three separate black people who looked at them with silent hostility and two elderly white women who did not look at them at all . |
5 | He picked up the garments she 'd taken off . |
6 | More to put her at her ease again than for any other reason I picked up The Times and showed it to her . |
7 | Viewers were therefore happy with a mixed diet , rather as though , in a public library , they sometimes picked up The Times , sometimes the Daily Mail , sometimes the Sun . |
8 | . I actually picked up the spots , soon as that Doctor came in , to see if they , right up . |
9 | He picked up the fingers . |
10 | I went over to the table , picked up the roses and threw them far out of the window . |
11 | Madeleine picked up the epithets and laughed at them . |
12 | A figure in a brown shirt stepped out from behind the bushes and stooping , picked up the leaflets that Fred had left lying on his jacket . |
13 | Hari pushed past the woman and picked up the boots hugging them to her in a rush of relief . |
14 | Stumbling to her feet , she picked up the diaries , slipped the clip into the pocket of her dress , and hurried downstairs as fast as she dared go . |
15 | He picked up the women in the street . |
16 | Lisa settled down with the bulldog clip that held the current day 's orders , and Folly picked up the accounts book . |
17 | ‘ Thallium , ’ you said , ‘ job for you ! ’ and thallium picked up the papers , simpered , and went out into the world to do your bidding . |
18 | He picked up the papers he had discarded and laid them out so that he could check his own reports while Coy spoke to him . |
19 | Dougal picked up the papers and followed Lorton upstairs . |
20 | Judging the business to be done , Ramlal picked up the papers and went to the door . |
21 | Mr. Crowther picked up the papers in front of him and set them down again very neatly . |
22 | Lee picked up the vibes and looked with wide-eyed apprehension as I held my breath and waited . |
23 | As he did so , the older man picked up the glasses which had been filled previously , and deliberately poured them over her head . |
24 | Also at about the same moment as the homing rat disappeared into the maze of runs under the city , scurrying along in faultless obedience to an ancient instinct , the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork picked up the letters delivered that morning by albatross . |
25 | The Crown claims that Gallen picked up the bombers in Donegal , drove them to the yard and returned an hour later to pick them up . |
26 | She picked up the shoes from the hearth and put them under the table . |
27 | She picked up the shoes in armfuls and stacked them away with obsessional care , keeping the toes carefully in line . |
28 | Abruptly Aggie picked up the handles of the flat-cart , then almost growling ‘ Come on ! ’ she pushed it along the road , the child trotting beside her now . |
29 | Anne could see , though , that he was trembling as he picked up the handles of the handcart and moved away . |
30 | She picked up the bags at her feet and plodded to the white wooden door , feeling in her bag for the key . |