Example sentences of "[noun sg] picked up the [noun] " 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 sun picked up the colours of a girl 's dress . |
| 6 | The general picked up the phone and dialled . |
| 7 | The Keeper picked up the cage and backed out , his helper careful to close the gate quickly behind him as he came out . |
| 8 | HOLLYWOOD heart-throb Tom Cruise picked up the bill for a group of students he saw trying to impress their girlfriends . |
| 9 | The sentry picked up the tags , stared at the photos and at our faces . |
| 10 | His wife picked up the phone believing it was an anniversary treat from her husband . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The guide picked up the rifle , shot and castrated him , and made off . |
| 15 | My father picked up the Book of Remembering . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Slowly the Captain picked up the half-sovereign , and as slowly rubbed it on his sleeve . |
| 18 | The orange river picked up the rejection letter and open cigarette packet in its path and floated them over onto X 's lap . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | FARM Minister John Gummer faces a Commons grilling after a food firm picked up the £2,600 bill to landscape his garden . |
| 21 | Lisa settled down with the bulldog clip that held the current day 's orders , and Folly picked up the accounts book . |
| 22 | The other man picked up the dressing gown lying on the end of the bed and threw it at Connelly . |
| 23 | The MI5 man picked up the telephone and pressed the digits with the forefinger of the same , left hand . |
| 24 | As he did so , the older man picked up the glasses which had been filled previously , and deliberately poured them over her head . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The Doctor picked up the Cell case . |
| 27 | I closed my eyes and grasped the legs as my master picked up the corpse by the shoulders . |
| 28 | In 1955 the company picked up the film rights to a popular sci-fi TV series . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 30 | The press picked up the story the following day and gave it wide coverage . |