Example sentences of "[adv] picked up [art] [noun sg] " 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 | A lady friend of mine , working in an aircraft factory , tells me she once picked up a wage packet of £40 a week . |
| 4 | A POLICEMAN whose hand was sewn back on after a sword attack yesterday picked up an object for the first time . |
| 5 | She also picked up a number of recently composed ‘ revival ’ songs , like Andy Hunter 's Up and Awa wi' the Laverock . |
| 6 | Rees opened with a penalty and then picked up a try and its conversion when the Eagle half-backs fumbled . |
| 7 | He then picked up a stool and brought it down towards her but it smashed a ceiling light . |
| 8 | He went to the shelves lining one wall and selected a handful of cassettes , then picked up a transistor radio . |
| 9 | Then picked up a virus . |
| 10 | William took a tack from between his teeth and hammered it into the leather and then picked up a file . |
| 11 | An unfamiliar young woman entered the sauna and , the moment she walked through the door , began to order everyone about ; she made them all sit closer together , then picked up a pitcher and poured water on the stones . |
| 12 | She checked herself so as not to rush and then advanced over-slowly , first took up the bottle of rum , poured a glass , then picked up a guinea , seemed , he thought ( and smiled ) to test it , pocketed it , brought him the rum . |
| 13 | He nodded , still smiling , then picked up a pack of cigarettes from the table and lit one . |
| 14 | Sometimes it just rushed round things ; other times it flattened all in its path then picked up the debris and flung it away . |
| 15 | Rain packed half her things and then picked up the telephone . |
| 16 | She stopped talking when the waiter arrived with the food , then picked up the conversation again after he had left . |
| 17 | The Coptic woman hesitated , then picked up the reticule and hurried after Mena . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | He then picked up the hat . |
| 20 | He glowered at the instrument , plugged it in , then picked up the receiver . |
| 21 | He then picked up the magazine , spied his collar on the floor and returned to the teacher . |
| 22 | They breakfasted , then picked up the autobahn at Leipzig and followed it all the way to Dresden . |
| 23 | So Moore again picked up the poker . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . ’ |