Example sentences of "had picked up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cowley had picked up the phone and was listening quietly . |
| 2 | He had picked up the phone and was asking Celia to show their visitor up , James Morris glanced disdainfully at the new manager . |
| 3 | Another one to fall by the wayside with a 78 was Ray Floyd , who had picked up the US Open title Norman had let slip through his grasp a few weeks before . |
| 4 | The man had picked up the ball , and peered down at Nick through dark-rimmed , bleary eyes . |
| 5 | Poshekhonov said that he had found the way to laugh , he had picked up the spear of ridicule . |
| 6 | She had picked up the letters from the wire box behind the front door , dropped off her coat on her way across the hall and gone into the kitchen . |
| 7 | Maxim had picked up the story from friends in the Intelligence Corps . |
| 8 | It was because Mrs Strawson was five minutes late — behaviour he made no demur at , though he would have refused to see a National Health patient who failed to turn up on time — that he had picked up the Standard and seen that paragraph . |
| 9 | They had picked up the man at the bottom of the hill . |
| 10 | Somehow I had picked up the idea that putting the patient in a tub of hot water sometimes had the desired effect . |
| 11 | Norma had picked up the idea from a little woman in Brixton . |
| 12 | People who had had experience of the National Assembly , where much the same procedures were followed , or who had picked up the style from televised broadcasts of it , were at a decided advantage . |
| 13 | Earlier , avoiding Matey 's compressed lips , he had picked up the whisky bottle and reached for a glass — anything , so long as he achieved oblivion , surcease from pain — and then he had heard her voice again , in the corridor at the church hall , mockingly telling him to retreat to it . |
| 14 | England did not seem to believe that Spanish-based Tab Ramos could juggle it back from the bye-line and when he did , no-one had picked up the 6ft 1ins Kaiserlauten defender as he powered his header past Chris Woods . |
| 15 | Miss Braithwaite had picked up the gap in Hereward 's curriculum vitae fast enough . |
| 16 | Richie had picked up the urgency in his voice and had stopped chewing . |
| 17 | UNIT had been routinely monitoring the signals in the area and had picked up the SOS messages from the passenger aircraft . |
| 18 | The men had picked up the sacks and shaken them out . |
| 19 | The three-year-old had picked up the patter from watching his dad Keith on the airwaves . |
| 20 | He said he had never seen the drugs before , claiming he had picked up the syringe after seeing it lying around before the party . |
| 21 | He had picked up the phrase from his teenage secretary . |
| 22 | A lift of his hand and then he had picked up the reins and , with a quick dig of his heels , went straight into a canter . |
| 23 | ‘ The police called the shop 's manager Jonathan White at 3 o'clock on Wednesday morning to say that the audio alarm had picked up the sound of a bomb going off . |
| 24 | As Fulbright presented it , in what amounted to a proclamation of American innocence and British guilt , the US had been had' by her allies ; and while this may not appear to be entirely convincing , Fulbright had picked up the importance of what Acheson had described as the danger of Ho Chi Minh 's ‘ direct communist connection ’ — and might , indeed , have gone further . |
| 25 | As mail boy , he had picked up the habit of addressing everyone by their Christian name , whoever they were . |
| 26 | He had picked up the pieces after the war and it must have come as a total shock to someone with his background to find players in his side who rocked the boat . |
| 27 | More confused than ever Mungo had picked up The Forest and the Fire , turning to page 119 . |
| 28 | He had picked up the Bren gun and was gazing to the left of the wood and pointing the gun in the same direction . |