Example sentences of "[pron] picked [pers pn] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I picked her up from the station , she had asked me about you and Nigger before we got into Berkeley . |
| 2 | I picked her up from the hospital on my way back from a meeting on Kowloon-side . |
| 3 | and er I picked him , I picked him up in the road and you see I just told him , I says oh I says , you 're the very man I 'm , I 'm looking for . |
| 4 | ‘ Yeah , I picked it up for a song about twelve years ago . |
| 5 | I picked it up off the Manchester lads in our regiment . |
| 6 | I picked it up off the floor , and it looked perfectly new . ’ |
| 7 | I picked it up from a golfing friend of mine for £25 back in the early Sixties . |
| 8 | I picked it up in no time , and I 'm a dummy . ’ |
| 9 | I picked it up after the election and modified it in the light of the amendments that we had tabled when we were in opposition . |
| 10 | She picked it up at the third ring . |
| 11 | The phone on the wall close to her rang and she picked it up at the second ring . |
| 12 | ‘ And when he attacked you , you picked him up like a baby in front of all those people , ’ Doone said . |
| 13 | ‘ They picked me up from a Sunday team near White Hart Lane when I was 11 and there are a lot like me , ’ Watson said . |
| 14 | ‘ So it will confuse the trackers mightily — especially since I think they picked us up at the Luxembourg border crossing , then followed us in our Mercedes down the autobahn . ’ |
| 15 | On the day I got out they picked us up in a taxi at the prison and then we went to the hospital to pick him up . |
| 16 | He says they picked it up on the radar and had to take evasive action . |
| 17 | That Friday night he picked her up at the airport and brought her home , but fifteen minutes after they got there , ‘ some guys showed up to sell Seth cocaine . |
| 18 | And then , with a kind of war whoop , he picked me up under the armpits and carried me out to the choir waiting outside . |
| 19 | The last time I saw Jonathan was Thursday evening when he picked me up in the car and we went for a drive . |
| 20 | He picked it up with a quiet ‘ Yeah ? ’ |
| 21 | He picked it up in an hour or two and went on to the guitar . |