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Example sentences of "picked up a " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to .
2	Rodney picked up a not-quite empty bottle of Muscadet .
3	He picked up a corkscrew and began to open a bottle of wine .
4	She picked up a pen , and started to write , in English .
5	Instead , he picked up a stone and threw it into the bushes , then made a noise that sounded suspiciously like ‘ shoo , shoo ’ .
6	I picked up a book , but put it down again and began looking at a tiny red spider on the leaf of a geranium , ad lost count of time .
7	He picked up a groin injury during his heroic performance in Lions colours in France and , with exhaustion probably exacerbating his condition , he makes way for David Thresher in the second row .
8	He picked up a few tricks of the trade as he progressed .
9	Worm baits picked up a few small coalfish , codling and whiting .
10	They did n't drive around in their fathers ' cast-off Rollers ; they pooled their resources , picked up a MkII escort for a hundred notes at an auction and took it in turns to drive it round a disused airfield practising handbrake turns until the car cried enough .
11	Sister Cooney picked up a pile of books and began to replace them on the shelves .
12	Rushie picked up a few lira and an Armani suit but it 's probably fair to say our golden boy from St Asaph did n't exactly win the freedom of Turin .
13	In 1987 detectors in Japan and America picked up a ten-second burst of neutrinos from the collapse of a giant star .
14	Later I picked up a station from Orlando , WINS — I listened to a maudlin piece about the poor families of soldiers and pilots .
15	An unfamiliar young woman entered the sauna and , the moment she walked through the door , began to order everyone about ; she made them all sit closer together , then picked up a pitcher and poured water on the stones .
16	Then he picked up a rock from the shallow water at the edge of the pool and threw it out into the middle , making a huge splash ; the rings of the splash spread nearly to the edge of the pool .
17	Lee picked up a stick from by the broken wire fence and poked the feathers of one of the dead hens , then the bloody bit by the neck .
18	She put aside her darning basket , and picked up a book whose dark blue cover was patterned with gold leaves .
19	Tumbleweed poked about with a stick and then picked up a small bundle wrapped in a piece of black plastic bin-liner .
20	6 : Simple but effective : adding band spraying nozzles to the front of a nine-row self-steer Standen rear hoe picked up a bronze medal for Philip Kew , Bank Farm , Saddlebow , Kings Lynn .
21	As she cleared away the tray , Stanley picked up a newspaper and started to read .
22	Jos picked up a length of cane .
23	Emily picked up a bunch of seed packets , bound with an elastic band .
24	A few weeks ago I picked up a tray of plants from the greenhouse border and was delighted to see a baby toad sitting in a hallow in the soil .
25	She picked up a sleek length of smoked silver .
26	Zambia slid to the floor near Tammuz' chair and picked up a fallen Munchi-Chip to eat .
27	Tammuz sat down in a chair opposite her and picked up a pen to fiddle with .
28	I picked up a likely length and laid it in the boat .
29	He bent down and picked up a carrier that he 'd lain on the floor .
30	In the living room she picked up a couple of wine glasses from the floor and set them down on a coffee table .