Example sentences of "[pers pn] picked [adv prt] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She picked up the two copies reluctantly , as though with tongs , and looked back across the desk at him defiantly . |
| 2 | He picked up the two chairs and placed one on each side of the fireplace . |
| 3 | Then he picked up the two bags and led her into the terminal . |
| 4 | He picked up the two grips and the empty suitcase Tom Rooney had given then to lend credence to their story . |
| 5 | 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 . |