Example sentences of "[be] picked up [prep] 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 | The water had been picked up in the Humber estuary and used as ballast . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Such a thing not having happened for many centuries , the idea , even though the smell of cordite had spread across the Channel and could be picked up in the Charing Cross Road , seemed difficult to envisage . |
| 5 | The two men were picked up on the Ross ice shelf , about 350 miles from the coastal camp at Scott base which was their original target . |
| 6 | I got out of Bullwood Hall on a Tuesday and I was picked up on the Thursday , two days later , for robbery . |
| 7 | They discarded the broken spar over the side where it was picked up by the Nippon tender . |
| 8 | A report on these ideas appeared in the medical school newsletter and was picked up by the Boston Globe and the New York Times . |
| 9 | When the Titanic struck its iceberg , Beesley escaped in the underpopulated Lifeboat 13 , and was picked up by the Carpathia . |