Example sentences of "[vb past] picked up at " in BNC.
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| 1 | WELL , WHEN I OFFERED SIR WILFRED MY RESIGNATION , THE OLD BUGGER GAVE ME A SECOND-HAND YACHT HE 'D PICKED UP AT AN AUCTION … |
| 2 | Martin Jackson sat among the people waiting by the arrivals gate and read a journal he 'd picked up at the news-stand . |
| 3 | I sent her a brochure I had picked up at a travel agent , together with a bouquet of roses and a letter . |
| 4 | He passed me a map and a brochure he had picked up at the hotel . |
| 5 | — If he got the answers he expected , that Rhoda had kept William Egan 's money in some hiding place and that Roxie had been looking after her brother 's moneybags , and that all three women had been spending what they were supposed to be hoarding , then he knew what was causing the atmosphere he had picked up at Roxie 's house . |
| 6 | Later , much later , he put the book down , and the cuttings which he had picked up at the end of his reading . |