Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] pick [pron] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , although children pick them up much more often than adults do . |
| 2 | ‘ The delivery room was up two flights of stairs , so Tony picked me up and ran up the two flights with me . |
| 3 | Alex worked himself into a crimson-faced rage and bit the curled corner of the carpet , whereupon Marie picked him up bodily and carried him out of the room . |
| 4 | Then she has Darren until May picks him up at seven . |
| 5 | He spent two-thirds of his day at a school ten miles away , and the rest of the afternoon looking through the older children 's comics at Mrs Neary 's until Diane picked him up at five . |
| 6 | I knew that cos Lewis picked it up . |
| 7 | If Zoser picked it up , then that was God 's will . |
| 8 | The most obvious manifestation of this came when he remained almost immobile in the centre of the ring while Biggs picked him off with jabs from long range . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm going to have a bath before Hitch picks me up , ’ he told her . |
| 10 | It must have been just before Boswell picked her up . |
| 11 | ‘ Three or four goes should make up the mind for her , ’ said Raimundo evilly , as Perdita picked herself up off the dusty ground . |
| 12 | When Howell picks him up at dawn on a deserted Texan highway he immediately makes his intentions plain by scaring the boy witless . |
| 13 | But reports say he was alive when rescuers picked him up . |
| 14 | Erm and the other thing was that erm when Martin picked you up for being late , you did n't even give a reason for being late . |
| 15 | Throughout 1990 rumours spread that a less-busy Shabba had signed for a major , which finally happened when CBS picked him up in America at the end of last year , and worldwide earlier this year . |
| 16 | As Ashley picked it up , her anxieties leapt into sudden life . |