Example sentences of "[noun sg] picked [adv prt] the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boy picked up the knife and was about to cut into the cake when he stopped . |
| 2 | The old lady picked up the glass and pulled a face . |
| 3 | The general picked up the phone and dialled . |
| 4 | The Keeper picked up the cage and backed out , his helper careful to close the gate quickly behind him as he came out . |
| 5 | Anyway , everybody rushed out into the kitchen and cook found some ice and wrapped it up in white cloth and then this woman picked up the toad and put it back in the garden but with the ice in her hands . |
| 6 | The MI5 man picked up the telephone and pressed the digits with the forefinger of the same , left hand . |
| 7 | The local press and radio picked up the story and carried it week after week — for a couple of years the gay struggle was big news for the folks back home . |
| 8 | ‘ Then the Chief picked up the phone and said to me : ‘ And while we are at it , let us get those other idle bastards off their backsides . ’ |
| 9 | The driver picked up the wallet and flicked it open , his gaze going between its contents and the road . |
| 10 | When his coolie picked up the shafts and broke into his loping stride , Joseph found he could n't look at the narrow , sweat-streaked shoulders bobbing in front of him without seeing the bleeding welts caused by the French colon 's cane . |
| 11 | But the wind was behind me and each wave picked up the boat and surged her ahead , so that I tied up at the pier some fifteen hours after I had left , a little tired but satisfied that another small gap in our knowledge of birds had been filled . |
| 12 | Two years later , the War Office picked up the idea and soon the system was adopted by the army and navy . |