Example sentences of "[noun prp] picked up [art] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean picked up the bag and took it home . |
| 2 | David picked up the arm and through the rack looking for new ones to put on while Sandra busied herself putting on the sleeves of the ones they had played . |
| 3 | Corbett picked up the torch and threw it down . |
| 4 | Edward picked up the bill and examined it . |
| 5 | Maggie picked up the poker and jabbed the fire with it , rearranging the coals so that even more heat was thrown out . |
| 6 | But when Mr Wray punched him , Youngs picked up the hammer and struck him across the cheek . |
| 7 | Cornelius picked up the envelope and tore it open . |
| 8 | Judging the business to be done , Ramlal picked up the papers and went to the door . |
| 9 | Seeing this , Dong picked up the shovel and made to dig again . |
| 10 | Léonie picked up the brush and got going on her cousin 's hair . |
| 11 | On the cusp of the second zone , close to the mainline station — the place where he always went — Ellwood picked up a girl and took her home . |
| 12 | Julia picked up the plate and turned it over . |
| 13 | Graham picked up the passport and looked at Laidlaw . |
| 14 | Graham picked up the Makarova and shot the second Arab as he turned his pistol on Laidlaw . |
| 15 | Duncan picked up the receiver and waited for what seemed an eternity before the operator answered . |
| 16 | Jackson picked up the pebble and held it until the stone warmed . |
| 17 | Fred picked up the Guinness and swallowed half of it . |
| 18 | Teesdale picked up the receiver and held it to his ear . |
| 19 | Jan sat on one of our original moquette chairs and Darren picked up the atmosphere and , for the first time since I 'd met him , sat on a chair in silence . |
| 20 | Emmie picked up a jar and sniffed suspiciously . |
| 21 | Main rival Jan Zelezny picked up the spear and pounded out an 83.96 metres with his first and only effort to lead the field . |
| 22 | Lee picked up the vibes and looked with wide-eyed apprehension as I held my breath and waited . |
| 23 | Lee picked up the helmet and put it on Philip 's head . |
| 24 | Moore picked up a book and pretended to throw it . |
| 25 | Tremayne picked up the receiver and grunted ‘ Hello ? ’ , not all his vexation yet dissipated . |
| 26 | Southgate picked up the manuscript and stalked away . |
| 27 | Sybil picked up the telephone and dabbed at the buttons with a well-scrubbed finger . |
| 28 | Mike picked up the problem and ran with it , creating a really first-class lab for quantitative morphology . |
| 29 | ‘ Imagine if Mike picked up the paper and read ‘ Wife lops husband 's head off with a fish slice on a Sunday afternoon ’ and found out it was us . ’ |
| 30 | Allen picked up the sack and slung it over his shoulder and they all three went out into the open air . |