Example sentences of "[pers pn] pick [adv prt] [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 | Now , drawing vigorously with the back end of the brush I picked out the light sides of the foreground waves . |
| 14 | When you pick up a round stone now , walk to the dinosaur 's back and you 'll automatically go up and put a piece of roof on . |
| 15 | Whenever you pick up a heavy load , bend both legs . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , ’ says the ex-chief executive philosophically , ‘ when you 've managed a business in crisis mode as long as I have , you pick up a few enemies . ’ |
| 17 | What tends to happen is you pick up a large mutation and then you modify it further , further modifying selection . |
| 18 | You pick out the chief traits of the book of yore or the time of yore you fancy and you bring these to the fore . |
| 19 | The idea is that , if you pick out the best bits from the past , combine them , mix and match them , dust them down and restore them fondly , then the result will be something better . |
| 20 | When you picking up the new car ? |
| 21 | ‘ No , it 's just that my sister 's going out , ’ she says , as she picks up the various plastic carrier bags already waiting in the hall . |
| 22 | Did you manage by pick did you pick up a few words yourself ? |
| 23 | He wrote ‘ Jo honey , will you pick up the goddam phone ? |
| 24 | It is very important this is done , we can join the raffle for the East Midlands airport and I 'll tell you this I will help you pick out the winning ticket er but we can not use the East Midlands airport money for revenue to run the stations . |
| 25 | She picked up a small piece of paper lying beside her and began turning it over and over in her fingers . |
| 26 | She picked up a small statuette which he had n't been aware of before . |
| 27 | Without pausing for wisecracks , she picked up a cheap map . |
| 28 | She picked up a leather-bound volume . |
| 29 | She picked up a hard-covered exercise book . |
| 30 | She picked up a sleek length of smoked silver . |