Example sentences of "picked up [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I had left your house , I had picked up a small bag . |
| 2 | And his hand picked up a dropped boot to hurl it against the crackling plastic doors . |
| 3 | In My Early Life he says I had picked up a wide vocabulary and a liking for the feel of words fitting and falling into their places like pennies in the slot . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Tadpole has picked up a second firm , Isometrics , to peddle the Sparcbook to the US government , and says a second strategy to make it easier for US government bodies to buy its technology will be revealed in a couple of weeks ( UX No 381 ) . |
| 5 | The prosecution alleged that a 37-year-old man had picked up a 29-year-old woman when she was hitch-hiking from London towards Oxford , and ‘ went berserk ’ when she rejected his sexual advances . |
| 6 | The BBC has picked up a similar trend . |
| 7 | Tadpole US has picked up a new president , Kenneth Cannizzaro , previously the firm 's director of business development : he 's responsible for operations and market expansion in the Americas and the Pacific Rim . |
| 8 | And , Charles ' mind raced on , Steen could have picked up a new tottie at the Sex of One … party on the Saturday night . |
| 9 | The yachts later picked up a freshening breeze which reached Force 5 approaching the island . |
| 10 | An example was ultrasound , suggested by a zoologist whose colleague 's ‘ bat detector ’ , which receives sound in ultrasonic frequencies , had picked up a strong signal emanating from a nearby ancient site . |
| 11 | Full of new hope that maybe our rethink might be working he struck into what appeared a solid fish , although this was a little misleading as the cat had picked up a little weed and once freed she quickly surrendered . |
| 12 | Michael Roberts has picked up a two-week ban in South Africa for the second time this winter . |
| 13 | Keith Campbell , from north Belfast , has picked up a top award from computer firm Digital after coming first in the BTEC National Diploma in a computer studies course at Belfast Institute School of Informatics . |
| 14 | When the procession , which had now picked up a large following , reached Grassgill End the effigy was placed on a small stone area at the roadside , its clothes were drenched with paraffin and it was set alight . |
| 15 | And the , but then I went to live in Northern Ireland so I 've got a so picked up a fair bit of Northern Ireland . |
| 16 | Clough junior , used as a lone striker , put Forest ahead after five minutes , prodding the ball wide of Hans Segers after Kingsley Black had picked up a dreadful pass by Wimbledon 's Roger Joseph . |
| 17 | No I would n't , cos I might have picked up a different thing . |
| 18 | He and Fonda retired to their trailer , smoked some marijuana and then came out and told the crowd of local youths that they should imagine that the two of them had just arrived in town , and , on the way , they had picked up a local girl of fifteen , and raped and left her in the bushes . |
| 19 | In San Salvador , children have picked up a catchy radio tune about the Condor brand of condoms and can be heard singing in the streets : " Condor is your friend , — always take him with you ! " |
| 20 | The Detective-Sergeant 's keen ears had picked up the dripping tap in the bathroom . |
| 21 | And it looks as though it 's picked up the middle page . |
| 22 | Gary Shandling , host of the ceremony in Los Angeles , warned the audience after Clapton had picked up the Best Album Grammy : ‘ If you are up in any other categories against Eric Clapton , I would go home now . ’ |
| 23 | It rang for a long time , and he thought he was going to be out of luck , but eventually the receiver was picked up the other end . |
| 24 | I crossed the hall and had actually picked up the offending item before realizing its full implication ; my father , I recalled , had been brushing the entrance hall a half-hour or so earlier . |
| 25 | However , as I replaced the cap , to my utter amazement , I noticed it was labelled ‘ Geranium ’ — I had picked up the wrong bottle . |
| 26 | It has much improved printer support , though , and with 3D graphs at long last arriving on the Lotus menu , some users will think they 've picked up the wrong spreadsheet ! |
| 27 | They have picked up the wrong book and are probably in the wrong bookstore . |
| 28 | This year it was ever-reliable Tony Humphries who shifted the club world on its axis and demolished the Sound Factory Bar by creating an hour-long mega-mix out of a tune he 'd picked up the previous week during one of his periodical spinning visits to Switzerland . |
| 29 | From the same papyri we learn that the Ptolemies had picked up the well-known Sheikh of Transjordan , Tobiah , to command the military settlers in his territory . |
| 30 | In an improbable , but typical , detour in a review of a book about corsets , she asks : ‘ How has it come about that feminists have picked up the masculine notion that those women who are n't self-confessed feminists do n't known what they 're doing , half the time ? ’ |