Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] picked [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Loch Ness and Morar Project itself picked up the threads of the Loch Ness Investigation ( LNI ) , which was founded by David James and Peter Scott in 1962 . |
| 2 | The coach which picked up the Cedars ' children stopped about five minutes ' walk away from their home . |
| 3 | Like a small child being told by stern parent she picked up the drink and tossed it back at a gulp . |
| 4 | To join the band , I first picked up the sweater piece with right side facing and then using a three pronged latch tool I picked up the band . |
| 5 | When he caught up with the spectators following the last match he picked up the information that had filtered back through the crowd 's grapevine . |
| 6 | Layton put it somewhat differently when he added that ‘ the two great qualities a young writer has are his arrogance and inexperience , ’ and on another occasion he picked out the twin characteristics of ‘ precocity and independence . ’ |
| 7 | On impulse I picked up the phone and rang her , hoping I still had the right number . |
| 8 | There was a rich woman who picked up the check for her friends — in short they were an entourage . |
| 9 | In the morning he picked up the van in Hilderbridge and drove to Jackley the long way round through Byss , having a newly upholstered chaise longue to deliver before he made the Jackley collection . |
| 10 | If Southend police could run in some young man who picked up the car on the Foulness road yesterday afternoon . |
| 11 | With a rush of fury she picked up the J-cloth which was sitting in a pool of greasy water at the bottom of the sink . |
| 12 | Sitting down opposite without a word he picked up the glass and emptied the contents down his throat . |
| 13 | After a moment 's hesitation he picked up the receiver . |
| 14 | More to put her at her ease again than for any other reason I picked up The Times and showed it to her . |
| 15 | To refresh her memory she picked up the telephone , closed her eyes , and recalled how his gloved finger had moved over the first four raised knobs of plastic . |
| 16 | Legislation had been passed , at the height of the bubble , to stop the creation of new joint-stock companies , which ruled out one of the ways in which the British had organized their expansion overseas , Walpole , the Prime Minister who picked up the pieces after the collapse , was first of all concerned to make sure that the King and his government did not run into any more trouble , which meant a programme of no new taxes , no wars , no new assertion of authority , and much less expansion than either before or after . |
| 17 | I wanted to do it , but every time I picked up the Bic , a job came up . |
| 18 | The second time she picked up the lure and pulled up clumsily on my fist . |
| 19 | If every time you picked up the phone and made contact with somebody and I gave you a pound , would you accept that as a deal ? |
| 20 | In desperation she picked up the phone and called astrologer Penny Thornton . |
| 21 | In desperation she picked up the paper and turned to the TV guide , but there was nothing scheduled for the early-evening spot apart from game shows . |