Example sentences of "pick [adv prt] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time he and Norman strode out to try to win the 1986 British Open , Bender had been caddying for eighteen years , having picked up his first serious bag when he was 18 years old . |
| 2 | Courier , who had not played well during the first two sets , said he received a pep talk from Agassi that really picked up his spirits . |
| 3 | She did n't need to be Sherlock Holmes to know how he had picked up his nick-name . |
| 4 | We 've picked up his transmitter . |
| 5 | The New York Mercantile Exchange quickly picked up his lead . |
| 6 | He was n't out on the Safari circuit with Brian Harley so would n't have picked up his bonuses . ’ |
| 7 | He had picked up his money , and caught a plane out to Marseilles . |
| 8 | The training officer , who endorsed all this had picked up his standards from his dealing director , who was later to claim of him : " He was like a lost lamb when he started . |
| 9 | He arrived , having picked up his companion guests , in a vast flat in West Kensington . |
| 10 | Two minutes later , after Paul had threatened the loss of the contract , he had picked up his brush again and , grumbling , got down to work . |
| 11 | Later , when Aurangzeb ordered the decapitation of the naked fakir Sarmad , an Armenian Jew who had converted to Islam , the sage allegedly picked up his head and walked up the steps of the Jama Masjid . |
| 12 | Then , while Leith was again holding down the urge to hit him , and seeing that he 'd prefer not to sack her without just cause — thereby deeply offending his cousin — he had bent and picked up his briefcase . |
| 13 | Twenty year old Ken Hughes from Barford Saint Michael near Banbury told the court he 'd picked up his ex-girlfriend 's Pekinese Rosie … but the dog had made a mess all down his clothes . |
| 14 | As he came through the front door he had picked up his post . |
| 15 | By 8.45am I 've picked out his feet and brushed him off , mucked out , prepared hay , water and evening feed and left them ready . |
| 16 | She would have picked out his padding footsteps among an army of marching boots . |
| 17 | Then he started to pick off his rivals , but time was slipping by and up in front outsider nd to Mill Reef in the Eclipse , Miss Dan , two lengths behind Nijinsky when third in the Arc in 1970 , Bourbon , who had won the Prix Royal-Oak ( the French St Leger ) and Irish Ball , who , though third to Mill Reef in the Derby and unplaced in the King George , had between those two races won the Irish Derby at The Curragh . |
| 18 | Shadow of another world , he wrote , and Goldberg , picking up his pen , wiping his forehead , wrote in the margin , infinite slimness , fourth dimension . |
| 19 | ‘ Ah — now that is serious , ’ he said , picking up his shirt and reluctantly easing it over the traces of tomato pulp . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's going to rain , ’ said Otley , trying his hearth rug on and picking up his dustbin lid . |
| 21 | Picking up his cider he asked : ‘ What 's an ‘ Old Peculiar ’ ? ’ |
| 22 | Picking up his letters made her hesitate . |
| 23 | After we 've signed the visitors ' book , he reproaches my husband for picking up his bag : ‘ We have a bag-carrying service . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll come , ’ had answered the doctor , picking up his bag from the hall table . |
| 25 | Picking up his now empty haversack , Yanto climbed up the ladder on to the deck . |
| 26 | Sex the night before picking up his pen apparently impaired his literary powers . |
| 27 | said Luke , picking up his stick . |
| 28 | I 'm not here to be a dolly , dabbing his temples with eau de cologne and picking up his wife 's laundry . |
| 29 | Picking up his heavy hide briefcase , he swept out of the conference room . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , yes , yes ; in fact — ’ He dropped his head now and , picking up his pudding spoon , he traced it round his empty plate before he said , ‘ I 'm going to volunteer . ’ |