Example sentences of "[adv] picked [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Because if you just picked up the phone and and er contacted erm a residential home |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Sometimes it just rushed round things ; other times it flattened all in its path then picked up the debris and flung it away . |
| 5 | Rain packed half her things and then picked up the telephone . |
| 6 | She stopped talking when the waiter arrived with the food , then picked up the conversation again after he had left . |
| 7 | The Coptic woman hesitated , then picked up the reticule and hurried after Mena . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll be in touch so that we can arrange for C.W. to meet your men before Mobuto arrives tonight , ’ Kolchinsky said then picked up the transmitter on the desk and activated the door . |
| 9 | He then picked up the hat . |
| 10 | Having left Scratchwood a few moments after the other vehicle , the mustard-coloured van , its roof rack carrying a decorator 's ladder , also turned off at Junction 4 , but then picked up the Uxbridge road before turning south towards Harrow-on-the-Hill and the home of Beth and Ali Christie . |
| 11 | He glowered at the instrument , plugged it in , then picked up the receiver . |
| 12 | He then picked up the magazine , spied his collar on the floor and returned to the teacher . |
| 13 | They breakfasted , then picked up the autobahn at Leipzig and followed it all the way to Dresden . |
| 14 | So Moore again picked up the poker . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | . I actually picked up the spots , soon as that Doctor came in , to see if they , right up . |