Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun] pick [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her dark-brown skin picked up the deadening light inside the train and reflected it strangely so that her face looked almost silver . |
| 2 | Watched by an enthusiastic crowd of train-buffs and possibly even some Scotsman fans , the editor , Magnus Linklater , unveiled the nameplate carrying the paper 's titlepiece , with its bristling thistle picked out in silver against a background of deep red . |
| 3 | And it was several minutes before her quick ears picked up , from somewhere well ahead of her , the snap of a broken branch under a trampling foot . |
| 4 | He tried it for a day , but grew bored with museums and heavy concentration , and their clumsy attempts to pick up girls ; he returned to the room during the day when they were out . |
| 5 | Down on the beach , the Big Wheel was still going round , its elegant shape picked out against the blackness of sea and sky by coloured lights , fixed at intervals , along its slender struts . |
| 6 | And so it was that , just after five on Friday evening , a large black Bentley , with not a sign of a dent anywhere , drew up outside Lisa 's little terraced cottage and waited while she darted into Josey 's to collect her daughter , then into her own house to pick up their luggage . |
| 7 | Rosheen watched as Postine came into view on the big screen , her massive frame picked out in infra-red against the night . |
| 8 | Woosnam went boldly for the pin from 35 feet but sailed six feet past before Torrance rammed home his 30-footer , leaving his three rivals to pick up their balls and share second spot . |
| 9 | He felt around inside , his long fingers picking up scraps of parchment . |
| 10 | Tom has to get back tomorrow , so Odd-Knut decides to circle the peak ahead and rejoin our outward trail to pick up Nat 's sledge on the way back . |
| 11 | On the journey our eldest child picked up bubonic plague , and when the steamer moored at Chauk my wife managed to get medicines from the BOC Hospital shortly before it closed . |