Example sentences of "[be] picked [adv prt] by the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would have been an enormous panic when they realised that the Irish girl had been picked up by the Bonnards . |
| 2 | Then , in the late afternoon , Eric would be picked up by the US postal jeep , which carried important military mail from Milan to Rome by way of Verona , Bologna and Florence , and arrive in Rome at first light the following morning . |
| 3 | These two elements of a manager 's job were picked out by the US organisational psychologists Robert Blake and Jane Mouton as characterising the leadership role , following studies they made in the oil industry soon after World War 11 . |
| 4 | They discarded the broken spar over the side where it was picked up by the Nippon tender . |
| 5 | A report on these ideas appeared in the medical school newsletter and was picked up by the Boston Globe and the New York Times . |
| 6 | When the Titanic struck its iceberg , Beesley escaped in the underpopulated Lifeboat 13 , and was picked up by the Carpathia . |