Example sentences of "[pron] picked up [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I picked up The New Principles of Gardening , a leather-bound tome by Batty Langley ( d. 1751 ) and wondered when she would have been b . |
| 2 | She picked up the two copies reluctantly , as though with tongs , and looked back across the desk at him defiantly . |
| 3 | She picked up The Social Aspects of Illness . |
| 4 | In windy conditions , Tracy , who picked up the Irish Ladies title at Lough Erne last month , completed the 10. mile course in five hours and minutes . |
| 5 | He picked up a few tricks of the trade as he progressed . |
| 6 | He picked up the dry droppings and crumbled them in his hand . |
| 7 | He picked up the two chairs and placed one on each side of the fireplace . |
| 8 | Then he picked up the two bags and led her into the terminal . |
| 9 | He picked up the two grips and the empty suitcase Tom Rooney had given then to lend credence to their story . |
| 10 | ‘ My lipstick fell out of my bag , you see , and he trod on it — not on the carpet , thank heaven ! — so he picked up the mangled remains and asked if he could get me another . |
| 11 | Then he picked up the fainter smells of buttercups and horses . |
| 12 | Willie watched him in horror as he picked up the wriggling worms and put them inside the tin . |
| 13 | And little , twinkly Claus Korth , captain of U.93 with a crew of forty-four , described poetically how he picked up the forty-nine survivors of a Bismarck supply ship , the Belchen , and brought his heavily overloaded boat back to France . |