Example sentences of "[noun] picked [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three inches in from the portal , Kirov 's keen eyes picked out the single human hair which he had fixed , with a smear of soapstone , between the door and the bare wooden floor . |
| 2 | Eleanor picked up the fresh flowers and began trimming their stems . |
| 3 | Frankie picked up the empty kettle and went to refill it but I noticed that none of the onlookers tried to wring his neck while he had the kettle in his hands . |
| 4 | Manville picked up the second folder , sighing heavily . |
| 5 | Satisfied , Manville picked up the coded copy and headed towards the despatch room . |
| 6 | There was no sign of any devastation or a struggle , except where the pool of light picked out the broken , gutted cat . |
| 7 | Once again Skaller picked up the two pictures , but only the features of the other boy still held his glance . |
| 8 | The first watcher picked up the red phone nearby and punched out three digits . |
| 9 | Kate 's quick ears picked up the remembered bitterness . |
| 10 | Then his ears picked up the soft pattering of multiple animal feet , and the sound of undergrowth being brushed lightly aside by swiftly moving bodies . |
| 11 | Iskandara picked up the few envelopes and looked at them disinterestedly . |
| 12 | Then the Judge picked up the stiff body of the student in his arms . |
| 13 | Granny picked up the last of the things they had cleared out of the cupboards and looked at it . |
| 14 | Cornelius picked up the old paper bag and carefully uncreased it . |
| 15 | Maud picked up the top letter on each pile . |
| 16 | Léonie picked up the wet cake of soap from the tin dish stencilled with poppies and washed her hands . |
| 17 | Tom picked up the two whiskeys and manoeuvred Patrick into the corner , pushing him into the seat first so that he was up against the wall . |
| 18 | Glasgow St Enoch Square picked up the Scottish award , Blackpool South Shore were tops in the North of England , and Maidenhead were champions in the South of England . |
| 19 | At last week 's advertising awards , the Esso tiger picked up the Best Animal trophy when to me it was obvious that the Andrex puppy was the better creature . |
| 20 | Robert picked up the overflowing hand grip lying next to his feet . |
| 21 | Black picked up the loose pile of paper just faxed through from Glasgow , |
| 22 | Other Counsellors ' viewpoints picked out the wrecked pod , various parts of the slope and the gulley , and the four human targets . |
| 23 | Oliver picked up the empty bottle . |
| 24 | A defence splitting cross from Dean Holdsworth picked out the unmarked Jones , and he coolly blasted the equaliser from the edge of the box . |
| 25 | While the sleepers ran empty , BR picked up the hard-pressed nocturnal travellers with a new cheapo ‘ Nightrider ’ using spare first-class coaches with fluorescent lighting encased in soothing blue plastic . |
| 26 | Without thinking , Moore picked up the nearest book and threw it . |
| 27 | The rod-bending bites are merely the start of a run , and it is this first powerful run , which began as soon as the barbel picked up the baited hook and gained momentum within seconds , that is the crucial time for losing fish . |
| 28 | The Captain picked up the external phone . |
| 29 | Parkin picked up the crushed lager can and turned it round and round in his hands . |
| 30 | I do not know where Henry Green picked up the erroneous information that Ivy had been a governess , but thinking of some of her sibylline utterances it was tempting to imagine her as a royal and imperial governess at Thebes and Mycenae . |