Example sentences of "had picked [adv prt] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Master Butcher Howard Callaghan and shop manager Alan Dean who had picked up first prize for an impressive window display in a competition in Harrogate on Monday , spent yesterday cleaning up the mess . |
| 2 | By mid-morning she had done what housework she was prepared to do , and although she had used the vacuum cleaner , her nose felt full of dust , her heart heavy : she had picked up all manner of objects — scent bottles , jugs , a Staffordshire dog — wiped them desultorily and put them back . |
| 3 | His sharp ears , predictably , had picked up that nuance . |
| 4 | There was something a little cold at her heart — as when she had picked up that book to read while he was fucking her . |
| 5 | McQuaid had either struck true by pure chance or had picked up reliable gossip at the Mohill Fair . |
| 6 | Finch had picked up some Arabic and heard the interpreter translating the image into a metaphysical one about a camel ( whichever is a camel ) lying down with a camel ( whichever is a camel ) . |