Example sentences of "[pron] picked up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I picked up a fallen branch , and as he passed I struck him on the head . |
| 2 | I picked up a dental chisel and resolved to sell my life dearly . |
| 3 | Recently , I picked up a young bird which one of my cats had caught ; I held it in my hands in the hope that it might survive . |
| 4 | I picked up a young man on my first journey out of Durham about 6.30 on the morning . |
| 5 | Some years ago , walking along a riverside with a Pakistani biochemist , I picked up a flat stone and bounced it across the water . |
| 6 | The waiters were all busy at that moment so I picked up a full glass from the table and fought my way to where she was holding court in the middle of the mass — standing up , of course . |
| 7 | ‘ The first time I picked up a 12 bore , it was bigger than me and the men all laughed . |
| 8 | I picked up a likely length and laid it in the boat . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I picked up the nearest coil and began to gather it up , but whereas in the summer heat the pipe had been soft and flexible , it now had the consistency of a steel cable and was like trying to lift a bedframe designed by Salvador Dali . |
| 11 | I picked up the empty bread wrapper . |
| 12 | I picked up the crumpled cheque and spread it out , looking at it with the sort of hopeless hunger with which one admires things in the window of Fortnum & Mason . |
| 13 | She picked up a small piece of paper lying beside her and began turning it over and over in her fingers . |
| 14 | She picked up a small statuette which he had n't been aware of before . |
| 15 | Without pausing for wisecracks , she picked up a cheap map . |
| 16 | She picked up a leather-bound volume . |
| 17 | She picked up a hard-covered exercise book . |
| 18 | She picked up a sleek length of smoked silver . |
| 19 | She picked up a heavy leather glove and hit him in the face with it . |
| 20 | She picked up a dusty-looking volume at random and flipped through the pages . |
| 21 | She picked up a little knife which had been lying in the lap of one of the dolls . |
| 22 | She picked up a little bag from the table . |
| 23 | She picked up the second carrier bag and saw me to the door with it . |
| 24 | She picked up The Cheaper Sex with the tips of her bony , scarlet-nailed fingers . |
| 25 | As she went she picked up the expensive bottle of wine . |
| 26 | Then she picked up the tall glass she had carried down with her , and which was now empty , walked sedately to the water 's edge , filled it with ice-cold water and returned to see that he had not shifted . |
| 27 | She picked up the ginger kitten and held it cradled in the curve of her neck . |
| 28 | She picked up the first box of jars and went back to the room . |
| 29 | That should shake the audience to attention , she thought , as she picked up the first book . |
| 30 | She picked up the two copies reluctantly , as though with tongs , and looked back across the desk at him defiantly . |