Example sentences of "[pers pn] was picked [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got out of Bullwood Hall on a Tuesday and I was picked up on the Thursday , two days later , for robbery . |
| 2 | Anyway , then I was picked up by the bizzies for possession and it all came out then . |
| 3 | She was picked up outside the gates of Askham Grange open prison near York by her son and daughter . |
| 4 | She was picked up in the centre of town in broad daylight . |
| 5 | Clearly Helen has looked for ‘ explanations ’ to help her deal with such a painful experience , and the one she seems to have come up with is that she was picked on for the way she looks . |
| 6 | It was hell for McColgan as she was picked off in the run-in for a consolation bronze . |
| 7 | It was picked up on the fourth ring by an answerphone . |
| 8 | They discarded the broken spar over the side where it was picked up by the Nippon tender . |
| 9 | When Keating painted in the style of Palmer , he was picked up by the Fraud Squad . |