Example sentences of "[vb past] pick up [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 2 | An O S one to fifty thousand and that 's what I thought I 'd picked up this morning to take with me but when I looked it was Chester and Wrexham so it did n't do me much good . |
| 3 | It was the usual sequence : we 'd picked up this batch from the mass grave , in the woods , and stood waiting by the van on the approach road while the carbon monoxide went about its work . |
| 4 | Ariel soon began to pick up some English , especially from Jack Elsey , a nineteen-year-old from Southwark , who 'd been the cook on the outward journey , and was prompt to learn from her the flavours of the island vegetables and herbs , the edible flowers and fruits he 'd never imagined could possibly exist when he was growing up one of the twelve offspring of a Thames waterman . |
| 5 | and he managed to pick up this prostitute , who only took cos business was slow . |
| 6 | Master Butcher Howard Callaghan and shop manager Alan Dean who had picked up first prize for an impressive window display in a competition in Harrogate on Monday , spent yesterday cleaning up the mess . |
| 7 | By mid-morning she had done what housework she was prepared to do , and although she had used the vacuum cleaner , her nose felt full of dust , her heart heavy : she had picked up all manner of objects — scent bottles , jugs , a Staffordshire dog — wiped them desultorily and put them back . |
| 8 | His sharp ears , predictably , had picked up that nuance . |
| 9 | There was something a little cold at her heart — as when she had picked up that book to read while he was fucking her . |
| 10 | McQuaid had either struck true by pure chance or had picked up reliable gossip at the Mohill Fair . |
| 11 | Finch had picked up some Arabic and heard the interpreter translating the image into a metaphysical one about a camel ( whichever is a camel ) lying down with a camel ( whichever is a camel ) . |
| 12 | A MEAN cabbie refused to pick up blind MP David Blunkett — because of his guide dog . |