Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] picked [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father picked up the Book of Remembering . |
| 2 | I closed my eyes and grasped the legs as my master picked up the corpse by the shoulders . |
| 3 | She crossed the room and with a resolute shrug of her shoulders picked up the receiver . |
| 4 | Their lights picked out the graffiti of long-dead people — prayers , curses , obscenities , threats — and what might have been messages in alien script or in the calligraphy of madness . |
| 5 | When his coolie picked up the shafts and broke into his loping stride , Joseph found he could n't look at the narrow , sweat-streaked shoulders bobbing in front of him without seeing the bleeding welts caused by the French colon 's cane . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His wife picked up the phone believing it was an anniversary treat from her husband . |