Example sentences of "[noun prp] picked [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Jean picked up the bag and took it home .
2 Neil picked up the book .
3 David picked up the arm and through the rack looking for new ones to put on while Sandra busied herself putting on the sleeves of the ones they had played .
4 NICK FALDO picked up the Ritz Club Golfer of the Year award and the Vardon Trophy , given to the European Tour 's leading money-winner , at the Tour 's annual dinner in London last night .
5 Corbett picked up the torch and threw it down .
6 Edward picked up the menu .
7 Edward picked up the bill and examined it .
8 Edward picked up the saw .
9 Cadfael picked up the psaltery with due respect , and laid it safely aside on the little prayer-desk .
10 And Bobby picked up the phone when the phone rang and it was her and she sai erm Bob said yes ?
11 A barrage of punches which started with a swinging left hook left Clarkson on one knee and once the action restarted and Hardy picked up the assault , it was clear the fight would come to a quick conclusion .
12 Travis picked up the map he must have been consulting while she slept .
13 At the edge of her hearing , Bernice picked up the sound of a roaring furnace engine , overlaid with the high pitched whine of cooling heat shields .
14 Woolley picked up the tempo .
15 Fleet diesel sales grew by 15.6 per cent last year , and Brookman naturally wants it known that Peugeot picked up the lion 's share .
16 Maggie picked up the poker and jabbed the fire with it , rearranging the coals so that even more heat was thrown out .
17 Some while later Colonel James Churchward picked up the idea of Mu .
18 But when Mr Wray punched him , Youngs picked up the hammer and struck him across the cheek .
19 Pete picked up the bucket as the door was unlocked .
20 Cornelius picked up the envelope and tore it open .
21 Judging the business to be done , Ramlal picked up the papers and went to the door .
22 As soon as the last student had filed out of her office , Loretta picked up the phone .
23 Seeing this , Dong picked up the shovel and made to dig again .
24 T'zin picked up the cup , then gestured with it .
25 Mr. Crowther picked up the papers in front of him and set them down again very neatly .
26 LĂ©onie picked up the brush and got going on her cousin 's hair .
27 Professor Hoskins picked out the redbrick farmhouses of Leicestershire as perhaps his favourite .
28 In 1981 , when he was known to be seriously ill , Henry Fonda was voted Best Actor for On Golden Pond : his daughter and ( co-star ) Jane picked up the Oscar for him , and he died just five months later .
29 Rincewind picked up the picture box .
30 Rupert picked up the book which lay on the little table by the fire .
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