Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] picked up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're not going to believe this , ’ said Alex , ‘ but I actually picked up the phone to call you this morning , except I realized it would have been the middle of the night your end so I put it down again . ’ |
| 2 | . I actually picked up the spots , soon as that Doctor came in , to see if they , right up . |
| 3 | Because if you just picked up the phone and and er contacted erm a residential home |
| 4 | Now our houses backed on to each other , with only the party wall between , so she just picked up the poker from the fender and started banging on the wall so that the plaster showered a cloud of dust in the room . |
| 5 | Viewers were therefore happy with a mixed diet , rather as though , in a public library , they sometimes picked up The Times , sometimes the Daily Mail , sometimes the Sun . |
| 6 | He calmly picked up the fallen keys , climbed into the car and drove away , leaving the widow staring at her dead husband . |
| 7 | He then picked up the magazine , spied his collar on the floor and returned to the teacher . |
| 8 | He then picked up the hat . |