Example sentences of "[noun pl] picked up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She crossed the room and with a resolute shrug of her shoulders picked up the receiver . |
| 2 | Cigarette companies picked up the idea a hundred years later and included romances in each packet of cigarettes . |
| 3 | One of the officers picked up the packet from the coffee table and counted fifteen more joints . |
| 4 | The students picked up the lack of concern on the part of their teachers and became indifferent . |
| 5 | The incident began when two settlers picked up the Arab , 19 , in their jeep at the edge of Susiya settlement . |