Example sentences of "picked out the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had picked out the only Georgian-born individual purely on the strength of his personal feelings . |
| 2 | She picked up a hand mirror , but what she saw was not reassuring ; the harsh overhead light remorselessly picked out the tiny lines at the corners of her mouth , the discoloured skin around her eyes , the dry , wrinkled neck . |
| 3 | The screws , it seemed , had picked out the eight most troublesome in the house , most of which were YCs . |
| 4 | He made very few mistakes and so often picked out the right line on the greens , lines which at the time I doubted , that I left the decisions to him . ’ |
| 5 | FIFTEEN years ago few would have picked out the blue-collar Industrial National Bank of Rhode Island to emerge in the 1990s as the pre-eminent banking power in patrician New England . |