Example sentences of "[pron] pick up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I picked up The New Principles of Gardening , a leather-bound tome by Batty Langley ( d. 1751 ) and wondered when she would have been b . |
| 2 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 3 | I picked up the nearest coil and began to gather it up , but whereas in the summer heat the pipe had been soft and flexible , it now had the consistency of a steel cable and was like trying to lift a bedframe designed by Salvador Dali . |
| 4 | I picked up the empty bread wrapper . |
| 5 | I picked up the crumpled cheque and spread it out , looking at it with the sort of hopeless hunger with which one admires things in the window of Fortnum & Mason . |
| 6 | I says that 's got ta be Warren , it could n't be anybody else , so when I come down I went off like , well I tell ya I ca n't do it , so I knew it was so I picked up the wrong she says oh I 'm just ringing because you can see what the weather is she says and you could n't go and do a day in erm , with your |
| 7 | It looks dewy fresh , but it does have overtones of a quieter age , and it 's the perfect foil for the earthy tones of the fabric which picks up the exotic theme we used downstairs . |
| 8 | When you picking up the new car ? |
| 9 | ‘ No , it 's just that my sister 's going out , ’ she says , as she picks up the various plastic carrier bags already waiting in the hall . |
| 10 | He wrote ‘ Jo honey , will you pick up the goddam phone ? |
| 11 | She picked up the second carrier bag and saw me to the door with it . |
| 12 | She picked up The Cheaper Sex with the tips of her bony , scarlet-nailed fingers . |
| 13 | As she went she picked up the expensive bottle of wine . |
| 14 | Then she picked up the tall glass she had carried down with her , and which was now empty , walked sedately to the water 's edge , filled it with ice-cold water and returned to see that he had not shifted . |
| 15 | She picked up the ginger kitten and held it cradled in the curve of her neck . |
| 16 | That should shake the audience to attention , she thought , as she picked up the first book . |
| 17 | She picked up the first box of jars and went back to the room . |
| 18 | When one cooled she picked up the other and spat to test it . |
| 19 | She picked up the two copies reluctantly , as though with tongs , and looked back across the desk at him defiantly . |
| 20 | Then she picked up the dirty washing and went to the door . |
| 21 | She picked up the warm , milky-smelling cocoon and crooned reassurance . |
| 22 | She picked up the sheet-white leg of her murdered boy and warmed it by the fire . |
| 23 | Her back still turned to him , she picked up the white plastic basket and began to hastily retrace her steps towards the cottage — and she heard him laugh . |
| 24 | She picked up The Social Aspects of Illness . |
| 25 | There were three letters and an electricity bill addressed to Mrs Emma Funnell , three circulars and — she picked up the last envelope — a cheap blue paper one and addressed to herself , not as Mrs Margaret Jones , but Mrs Peggy Jones . |
| 26 | She picked up the unfamiliar word , relieved to be discussing impersonal things once more . |
| 27 | She picked up the unfamiliar phone clumsily and by mistake depressed the re-dial key . |
| 28 | In windy conditions , Tracy , who picked up the Irish Ladies title at Lough Erne last month , completed the 10. mile course in five hours and minutes . |
| 29 | It 's another outrageous stroke by Forest boss Brian Clough , who picked up the stocky striker after he was handed a free transfer by West Bromwich . |
| 30 | He drove in silence after that , leaving me alone with my chaotic thoughts , and at the end of the long straight slash across the side of the cloud-hidden mountain , we picked up the new road again , swinging right , away from the Jequetepeque . |