Example sentences of "[vb past] pick up a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | She walked over to the pond and bent to pick up a small pebble , skimming it across the glittering water , watching the way it bounced , then sank , leaving behind it only ripples . |
2 | She pretended to pick up a dropped paper napkin . |
3 | At Benjamin 's urging I helped pick up a wooden chest . |
4 | Bruce Springsteen managed to pick up a new house for £2 million less than the asking price . |
5 | The prosecution alleged that a 37-year-old man had picked up a 29-year-old woman when she was hitch-hiking from London towards Oxford , and ‘ went berserk ’ when she rejected his sexual advances . |
6 | In My Early Life he says I had picked up a wide vocabulary and a liking for the feel of words fitting and falling into their places like pennies in the slot . |
7 | An example was ultrasound , suggested by a zoologist whose colleague 's ‘ bat detector ’ , which receives sound in ultrasonic frequencies , had picked up a strong signal emanating from a nearby ancient site . |
8 | When I had left your house , I had picked up a small bag . |
9 | He and Fonda retired to their trailer , smoked some marijuana and then came out and told the crowd of local youths that they should imagine that the two of them had just arrived in town , and , on the way , they had picked up a local girl of fifteen , and raped and left her in the bushes . |
10 | Clough junior , used as a lone striker , put Forest ahead after five minutes , prodding the ball wide of Hans Segers after Kingsley Black had picked up a dreadful pass by Wimbledon 's Roger Joseph . |
11 | Full of new hope that maybe our rethink might be working he struck into what appeared a solid fish , although this was a little misleading as the cat had picked up a little weed and once freed she quickly surrendered . |