Example sentences of "[noun] had pick up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Norma had picked up the idea from a little woman in Brixton . |
| 2 | Miss Braithwaite had picked up the gap in Hereward 's curriculum vitae fast enough . |
| 3 | They 'd had a choreographer in when the show had first been set up , but no-one had been near it since ; replacement dancers had to pick up the routines from the others , and some of the results could be kind of interesting . |
| 4 | So the first man in the smithy in the morning had to pick up a hammer and strike the anvil three times — just to let the old man know we were on the job . |
| 5 | Maxim had picked up the story from friends in the Intelligence Corps . |
| 6 | It made it worse when we knew Watson had picked up a shot here . |
| 7 | Jay had picked up a pattern of sleeplessness over the last five months . |
| 8 | The man had picked up the ball , and peered down at Nick through dark-rimmed , bleary eyes . |
| 9 | Richie had picked up the urgency in his voice and had stopped chewing . |
| 10 | More confused than ever Mungo had picked up The Forest and the Fire , turning to page 119 . |
| 11 | The wee lass had picked up a cloth and was wiping Hector 's unshaven chin free of grease ; then his hands , and the handle of his knife . |
| 12 | The men had picked up the sacks and shaken them out . |
| 13 | Cowley had picked up the phone and was listening quietly . |
| 14 | His skin had picked up a glow from the lilies on the table . |
| 15 | As Fulbright presented it , in what amounted to a proclamation of American innocence and British guilt , the US had been had' by her allies ; and while this may not appear to be entirely convincing , Fulbright had picked up the importance of what Acheson had described as the danger of Ho Chi Minh 's ‘ direct communist connection ’ — and might , indeed , have gone further . |
| 16 | One little rascal had picked up a cigarette-end , still burning ( called a dog-end , or dout ) and was puffing away like a steam engine . |
| 17 | ‘ The police called the shop 's manager Jonathan White at 3 o'clock on Wednesday morning to say that the audio alarm had picked up the sound of a bomb going off . |
| 18 | The three-year-old had picked up the patter from watching his dad Keith on the airwaves . |
| 19 | A final vote showed Tory support remained solid while the LibDems had picked up a handful of votes at Labour 's expense . |
| 20 | Alice had picked up a spoon ready to ladle out the stew on to a plate , but she paused and looked at her daughter hard as she said , ‘ You do n't know what it 's all about , do you ? |