Example sentences of "[pers pn] picked up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos I picked up the Chester to Wrexham one instead of the Snowdonia one . |
| 2 | I picked up the bottle beside me and took another long swig . |
| 3 | For answer , I picked up the newspaper from where I 'd thrown it on the desk . |
| 4 | I picked up the stack of mail from the coffee-table and dealt myself one off the bottom : the envelope that contains my monthly bank statement , with its familiar brown matt and the wax seal like a blob of blood . |
| 5 | As I picked up the knife from the rubble by the table I was waking . |
| 6 | Then I picked up the lights of Burnham to starboard , and knew roughly where I was . |
| 7 | So I picked up the thing with an empty bottle and put it in the , on the kitchen . |
| 8 | I believe I picked up the tape-recorder in much the same spirit — because I felt that whatever we did here ought to have a rather spontaneous feel to it , and yet at the same time be noticeably hard-wearing . |
| 9 | At half-past twelve on the next day , 24 December , I picked up the shafts of the wheelbarrow and pushed off towards Kano on those first , torturous , thirteen miles . |
| 10 | When I got home I picked up the threads of my ordinary life again very quickly — you might say I snatched them up , and plunged into a round of work and social life deliberately intended to give me as few idle moments as possible . |
| 11 | Erm so two pounds of that went with sale with the sale of the journal and so we can say we had twelve pounds unsolicited donations , erm as Peggy would back me up if she was here , saying that any time you ask someone to sign the flood gates open with what they thought about the position of pensioners , in fact we 've probably got a lot more signatures if they had n't , but erm , we did pick up , we , I picked up the news about Welwyn Garden City 's cost of and things like that not going through and erm , erm , now , our month our monthly , our monthly stall will not be on the third third Thursday this year , it will be on the fourth to co-inside with the week were celebrating pensioner 's week , which is a week behind National . |
| 12 | In the queue , she picked up the smell of long-term poverty . |
| 13 | She picked up the foot in both her hands and nipped the jagged crescent with her teeth . |
| 14 | She picked up the shoes from the hearth and put them under the table . |
| 15 | She picked up the shoes in armfuls and stacked them away with obsessional care , keeping the toes carefully in line . |
| 16 | He was amused to observe that she forced herself to be a blank when she picked up the bowl of pus and blood . |
| 17 | Alyssia was still feeling inordinately pleased with herself when , half an hour later , she picked up the telephone in the little village post office and dialled her father 's direct work line . |
| 18 | Rodi 's second husband Gordon , 64 , died two months before she picked up the cheque from Bergerac star John Nettles . |
| 19 | She picked up the basket of flowers from the ground . |
| 20 | She picked up the bags at her feet and plodded to the white wooden door , feeling in her bag for the key . |
| 21 | One of Stephanie close colleagues has been under gun guard , police guard for a week following death threats on the alleged kidnapper , as the net closed on him he phoned estate agent Jane the girl who helped prepare the second artist impression , Jane had met him face to face when he called at the office in Great Bar Birmingham days before the kidnap to collect details on several houses for sale , her blood ran cold when she picked up the phone on Wednesday February the twelfth to hear his voice again |
| 22 | She picked up the suspicion in his voice , said nothing , but left him to open the door . |
| 23 | She picked up the list of names and looked at it carefully . |
| 24 | Less than 48 hours after the world No.1 had lifted her third French Open title , doctors in Paris revealed that she picked up the injury towards the end of her quarter-final win over Jennifer Capriati . |
| 25 | Then she picked up the book of ‘ psychological correspondences ’ again and began with difficulty to read the letters . |
| 26 | She picked up the receiver without planning what she would say . |
| 27 | " Essoldo Cinema , good morning , " it said again , as soon as she picked up the receiver in the hall . |
| 28 | And she picked up the plate of spurned buck rarebit and emptied it into the bin under the counter . |
| 29 | She picked up the slips of pasteboard and let them fall haphazardly on the table in front of them . |
| 30 | She picked up the box with the frog-magician in it and wedged it into her cape pocket . |