Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] pick up [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Shrewsbury have got to make sure as much as possible when they do win the ball in the they do n't just smash long balls up , because as l as soon as they do that and as long as they keep doing that , Blackburn just pick up the ball again and keep coming at them , they 've got to try like they did just a few minutes ago , try and play themselves out of defence with nice low passes .
2 Eyeing the tiny seed-pearl head-dress with the fly-away veil , Ellie determinedly picked up the scissors and cut all the net off .
3 [ BELVILLE absent-mindedly picks up the paper that PAMELA has been writing . ]
4 While she was in the States , Fletcher also picked up a copy of Bodies Electric by Colin Harrison , which Bloomsbury will publish here later this year .
5 So Moore again picked up the poker .
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