Example sentences of "[was/were] picked [adv prt] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I got out of Bullwood Hall on a Tuesday and I was picked up on the Thursday , two days later , for robbery . |
| 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 . |