Example sentences of "[pron] pick up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I picked up a fallen branch , and as he passed I struck him on the head . |
| 2 | I picked up a dental chisel and resolved to sell my life dearly . |
| 3 | Recently , I picked up a young bird which one of my cats had caught ; I held it in my hands in the hope that it might survive . |
| 4 | I picked up a young man on my first journey out of Durham about 6.30 on the morning . |
| 5 | Some years ago , walking along a riverside with a Pakistani biochemist , I picked up a flat stone and bounced it across the water . |
| 6 | The waiters were all busy at that moment so I picked up a full glass from the table and fought my way to where she was holding court in the middle of the mass — standing up , of course . |
| 7 | Switching on my bedside lamp , I picked up a heavy , blunt instrument ( The Rothmans Football Yearbook 1986/87 and tore open the door . |
| 8 | ‘ The first time I picked up a 12 bore , it was bigger than me and the men all laughed . |
| 9 | I picked up a likely length and laid it in the boat . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I picked up the empty bread wrapper . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When you pick up a round stone now , walk to the dinosaur 's back and you 'll automatically go up and put a piece of roof on . |
| 18 | Whenever you pick up a heavy load , bend both legs . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , ’ says the ex-chief executive philosophically , ‘ when you 've managed a business in crisis mode as long as I have , you pick up a few enemies . ’ |
| 20 | What tends to happen is you pick up a large mutation and then you modify it further , further modifying selection . |
| 21 | When you picking up the new car ? |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | The socialist , the feminist , or the worker who picks up a cheap print of the Memorial Sheet to Karl Liebknecht ( 1919 ) , is not prioritising the formal elements which attracted Max Lehrs as writing , ‘ It would be very regrettable if ( Kollowitz ‘ etchings ) found approval from the public merely because of their social content … = Art should not and can not serve the changing goals of parties . ’ |
| 24 | Did you manage by pick did you pick up a few words yourself ? |
| 25 | He wrote ‘ Jo honey , will you pick up the goddam phone ? |
| 26 | She picked up a small piece of paper lying beside her and began turning it over and over in her fingers . |
| 27 | She picked up a small flowerpot-shaped lump of earth . |
| 28 | She picked up a small statuette which he had n't been aware of before . |
| 29 | In the decaying ward of an AIDS hospital , she picked up a dying seven-year-old boy and cuddled him to her . |
| 30 | Without pausing for wisecracks , she picked up a cheap map . |