Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] picked [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the game larder , pheasants and duck and partridge hung by their necks in winter time , and bunches of snipe waited , pin-eyes closed , to be plucked — once Nicandra picked up a little bird , too mangled to hang in the bunch and faced him with a fellow . |
| 2 | Once Belmont picked up an opening end count of five , Dunluce were in big trouble . |
| 3 | ‘ Imagine if Mike picked up the paper and read ‘ Wife lops husband 's head off with a fish slice on a Sunday afternoon ’ and found out it was us . ’ |
| 4 | Smallfry continued to pose before the mirror , smiling and pouting her lips in film-star kisses to the man in the yard while Buddie picked out an intricate melody on his guitar . |
| 5 | Allcock moved 5-2 ahead in the third , but Muir tied the score at 5-5 on the fourth end , before Allcock picked up a double at the next to book a quarter-final place . |
| 6 | ‘ Thank God , ’ she said , when Kelly picked up the phone . |
| 7 | She sank back into her extremely comfortable seat and , as Ace picked up a magazine to read , undid her attaché case and took out , it had to be admitted with some deliberate ostentation , notes on high-tech fuel consumption . |
| 8 | Jane dug the garden as Lee picked up the weeds . |
| 9 | They went into the boutique , Alyssia barely glancing at the racks of exquisitely made clothes , nodding distractedly in agreement when Nicole picked out an exotic pink strapless dress and asked whether she thought it would suit her . |
| 10 | It looked as though Forest had done enough to earn a valuable point when Barmby picked up a loose ball in the area and crossed for Mabbutt to score . |