Example sentences of "[noun sg] picked up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , the woman in question picked up the piece of paper with her name and address on along with all the Sanctuary 's records , and has not been seen since . |
| 2 | The boy picked up the knife and was about to cut into the cake when he stopped . |
| 3 | The girl picked up the receiver , soap suds streaming on to its cover . |
| 4 | The old lady picked up the glass and pulled a face . |
| 5 | The general picked up the phone and dialled . |
| 6 | The Keeper picked up the cage and backed out , his helper careful to close the gate quickly behind him as he came out . |
| 7 | HOLLYWOOD heart-throb Tom Cruise picked up the bill for a group of students he saw trying to impress their girlfriends . |
| 8 | His wife picked up the phone believing it was an anniversary treat from her husband . |
| 9 | Kathleen had never been one for jewellery and the amethyst picked up the heather mauve of Isabel 's new dress and even , she thought , gave something of a fresh nuance to her mist-blue eyes . |
| 10 | The child sat down , more from surprise than the force of the blow ; the woman picked up the shopping bags and walked on ; she knew that she was in danger of missing the train now . |
| 11 | Anyway , everybody rushed out into the kitchen and cook found some ice and wrapped it up in white cloth and then this woman picked up the toad and put it back in the garden but with the ice in her hands . |
| 12 | The guide picked up the rifle , shot and castrated him , and made off . |
| 13 | My father picked up the Book of Remembering . |
| 14 | The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years . |
| 15 | Slowly the Captain picked up the half-sovereign , and as slowly rubbed it on his sleeve . |
| 16 | The orange river picked up the rejection letter and open cigarette packet in its path and floated them over onto X 's lap . |
| 17 | Even this far from the house , the air was permeated with the acrid stink of burning , but soon their sensitive canine smell-sense picked up the telltale odour of a man-thing . |
| 18 | The other man picked up the dressing gown lying on the end of the bed and threw it at Connelly . |
| 19 | The MI5 man picked up the telephone and pressed the digits with the forefinger of the same , left hand . |
| 20 | The local press and radio picked up the story and carried it week after week — for a couple of years the gay struggle was big news for the folks back home . |
| 21 | The Doctor picked up the Cell case . |
| 22 | I closed my eyes and grasped the legs as my master picked up the corpse by the shoulders . |
| 23 | In 1955 the company picked up the film rights to a popular sci-fi TV series . |
| 24 | ‘ Then the Chief picked up the phone and said to me : ‘ And while we are at it , let us get those other idle bastards off their backsides . ’ |
| 25 | The press picked up the story the following day and gave it wide coverage . |
| 26 | The officer picked up the beggar by his neck . |
| 27 | This time the chaplain picked up the receiver at once . |
| 28 | The driver picked up the wallet and flicked it open , his gaze going between its contents and the road . |
| 29 | But the wind was behind me and each wave picked up the boat and surged her ahead , so that I tied up at the pier some fifteen hours after I had left , a little tired but satisfied that another small gap in our knowledge of birds had been filled . |
| 30 | Two years later , the War Office picked up the idea and soon the system was adopted by the army and navy . |