Example sentences of "picked up [art] book " in BNC.
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| 1 | I picked up a book , but put it down again and began looking at a tiny red spider on the leaf of a geranium , ad lost count of time . |
| 2 | She put aside her darning basket , and picked up a book whose dark blue cover was patterned with gold leaves . |
| 3 | But then anyone who picked up a book entitled Does God Exist ? hoping to come away with the answer is liable to be disappointed . |
| 4 | She picked up a book and stared at the firelight , hoping that Finn might get bitten by something slightly venomous . |
| 5 | He picked up a book and slapped the dust off it . |
| 6 | When he returned to the room downstairs , he picked up a book that Lord Henry had lent him . |
| 7 | While Dorian waited , he picked up a book and tried to read . |
| 8 | Moore picked up a book and pretended to throw it . |
| 9 | He picked up a book and aimed it at the rat . |
| 10 | Afraid she might doze off if she gave in to temptation and lay down on the bed , she sat down instead on the room 's only chair , and picked up a book , absorbing not a single word as she waited for the sounds that would mean he was turning in for the night . |
| 11 | She picked up a book from her stall and browsed . |
| 12 | He picked up a book on juggling which his daughter had brought home , and 4 months later he 's teaching others . |
| 13 | Then she picked up the book of ‘ psychological correspondences ’ again and began with difficulty to read the letters . |
| 14 | Captain Robins left the saloon , I peeled a couple of the red bananas that grow wild on the islands — my dessert — and picked up the book . |
| 15 | The writer may well have assumed that most book buyers already know of the existence of a writer called Ernest Hemingway , and even if they did not before they picked up the book , they would already have seen his name on the cover before turning to read this biographical sketch inside . |
| 16 | My father picked up the Book of Remembering . |
| 17 | There was still an hour left before the classes finished , so she parked the Golf in the courtyard and picked up the book , then changed her mind and took her camera from the glove compartment instead . |
| 18 | She picked up the book and put it in her bag . |
| 19 | She picked up the book . |
| 20 | He picked up the book he was reading , and threw it violently at the rat . |
| 21 | Rupert picked up the book which lay on the little table by the fire . |
| 22 | Neil picked up the book . |