Example sentences of "[noun] and picked [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She crossed the bedroom and picked up the cigar and put it back on the table . |
| 2 | A long and heart-felt kiss was interrupted by the phone and I hurried back into the bedroom and picked up the extension in time to hear Ed Grainger . |
| 3 | After winning the Berkhamsted he went back to his home club and picked up the Watson Trophy with a 69 . |
| 4 | He reached into the back seat and picked up a briefcase , one of the old upright ones schoolmasters used to favour . |
| 5 | Having collected the mail and picked up the following day 's patrol tasks , the vehicles arrive and we return to Rosemount for lunch . |
| 6 | He was halfway through his coffee when he swung his legs off the couch and picked up the phone to the embassy . |
| 7 | Clearly this was no place for me , and having tiptoed back to the sitting-room , I switched on a light and picked up the evening paper . |
| 8 | I went round the other side of the horse and picked up the off fore . |
| 9 | Mike Pumfrey , now back in the study with Sergeant Fenniway , put his finger to his lips and picked up the extension phone . |
| 10 | Ginny ran into the hall and picked up the handset . |
| 11 | Then , when she turned the corner , he went out to the hall and picked up the phone . |
| 12 | Then she hurried into the hall and picked up the telephone , intent upon speaking to Ursula and demanding an explanation . |
| 13 | She rushed into the hall and picked up the receiver . |
| 14 | Slowly he got to his feet and picked up the newspaper . |
| 15 | Very quietly she turned around , walked back into the lobby and picked up the phone . |
| 16 | James Spicer , his military persona now well to the fore , ignored the question and picked up the phone . |
| 17 | Adam reached to a shelf behind Miranda 's desk and picked up a case of cosmetic samples . |
| 18 | He went over to the desk and picked up a photograph . |
| 19 | The man posed as a mini-cab driver and picked up the woman outside a pub in Brockley , south-east London . |
| 20 | A strange light , lurid but colourless , heralded the onset of the storm and picked out every detail with the brittle sharpness of death . |
| 21 | Stephen dismissed Paul with a wave and picked up the receiver . |
| 22 | Party manners — Hewlett-Packard Co hosted all the COSE meetings and picked up the pizza tab ; Sun Microsystems Inc then threw a celebratory dinner for the COSE teams on April 16 , the night before the announcement : now it 's IBM Corp 's turn , unless Lou Gerstner decides to sit it out , pleading poverty . |
| 23 | Hewlett-Packard Co hosted all the COSE meetings and picked up the pizza tab . |
| 24 | On impulse Sally-Anne went to the kitchen and picked up a jam jar which she had earlier filled with sweet peas brought by a grateful patient who owned a little garden . |
| 25 | As she could hear Jack coming down the stairs she returned to the kitchen and picked up the metal spoon and plunged it into the saucepan which she had not yet put on to heat . |
| 26 | He left the kitchen and picked up the hotel cashbox from his office in the foyer . |
| 27 | Ordering fresh coffee from the waitress who came to take my order , he passed me the Guardian and picked up the Sun . |
| 28 | ‘ Let's go then , ’ said Caro and picked up the big carpet bag . |
| 29 | Willi bustled over to the dresser that stretched along one side of the room and picked up a huge basket of flowers . |
| 30 | She rushed back to the living room and picked up the snaps . |