Example sentences of "[pers pn] picked up a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I picked up a fallen branch , and as he passed I struck him on the head . |
| 2 | I picked up a dental chisel and resolved to sell my life dearly . |
| 3 | Recently , I picked up a young bird which one of my cats had caught ; I held it in my hands in the hope that it might survive . |
| 4 | I picked up a young man on my first journey out of Durham about 6.30 on the morning . |
| 5 | Some years ago , walking along a riverside with a Pakistani biochemist , I picked up a flat stone and bounced it across the water . |
| 6 | The waiters were all busy at that moment so I picked up a full glass from the table and fought my way to where she was holding court in the middle of the mass — standing up , of course . |
| 7 | Switching on my bedside lamp , I picked up a heavy , blunt instrument ( The Rothmans Football Yearbook 1986/87 and tore open the door . |
| 8 | I picked up a likely length and laid it in the boat . |
| 9 | She picked up a small piece of paper lying beside her and began turning it over and over in her fingers . |
| 10 | She picked up a small flowerpot-shaped lump of earth . |
| 11 | She picked up a small statuette which he had n't been aware of before . |
| 12 | In the decaying ward of an AIDS hospital , she picked up a dying seven-year-old boy and cuddled him to her . |
| 13 | Without pausing for wisecracks , she picked up a cheap map . |
| 14 | She picked up a large , enamelled kettle from the fender and went into the scullery to fill it . |
| 15 | She picked up a leather-bound volume . |
| 16 | She picked up a hard-covered exercise book . |
| 17 | She picked up a sleek length of smoked silver . |
| 18 | She picked up a heavy leather glove and hit him in the face with it . |
| 19 | She picked up a dusty-looking volume at random and flipped through the pages . |
| 20 | She picked up a little bag from the table . |
| 21 | She picked up a little knife which had been lying in the lap of one of the dolls . |
| 22 | She picked up an emptied canister from the kitchen floor . |
| 23 | ‘ We 've lost four clients out of a total of 1,800 and I expect others will drift away , but we picked up a new client just this morning . ’ |
| 24 | Along the way they picked up a Swedish girl , Eva Vincett , who had married an Englishman , so then there were three ! |
| 25 | A spokesman for the group , currently on a world tour , said : ‘ They picked up a nasty virus in Australia . ’ |
| 26 | In Porchester Terrace they picked up a blue Mark 1 Zephyr and drove sedately home to Lancaster Road . |
| 27 | And as independents Tony Carlin and William McCorriston , both formerly of the SDLP , counted their losses last night , the SDLP was celebrating victory in both the Northland Ward , where all five fielded candidates were elected , and on the Waterside , where it picked up an extra seat . |
| 28 | ‘ As for the terms in which St Paul expressed it — well , there you are he used any sort of figure that came to hand : he picked up a rhetorical metaphor from a cynic preaching in the market … . |
| 29 | He picked up a small square object from his desk , with wires leading from it . |
| 30 | In his anger and frustration , he picked up a long , curved clothes brush and banged it down hard on the surface of the table . |