Example sentences of "he pick [adv prt] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could imagine him picking out the blooms , thinking of her , his large , flamboyant writing looping across the card … |
| 2 | He picked up the tongs to check the meat . |
| 3 | He picked up the cases and she took their hand-cases and they walked home , passing three separate black people who looked at them with silent hostility and two elderly white women who did not look at them at all . |
| 4 | He picked up the women in the street . |
| 5 | He picked up the fingers . |
| 6 | He picked up the bags and went into the house . |
| 7 | He picked up the garments she 'd taken off . |
| 8 | He picked up the papers he had discarded and laid them out so that he could check his own reports while Coy spoke to him . |
| 9 | He picked up the tins ; then , leaning towards her , he said , ‘ Nice to be served by a pretty face . |
| 10 | Anne could see , though , that he was trembling as he picked up the handles of the handcart and moved away . |
| 11 | He picked up the sports jacket and examined the collar but could see no blood , no unburnt powder and no scorching . |
| 12 | He picked up the tapes and sifted through . |
| 13 | The London driver said he picked up the brothers at Grosvenor House Hotel after the Players ' Union awards dinner last Sunday . |
| 14 | He picked up the books one by one , opening them at the title page , watching every movement of her pen as she signed them and commenting on the brilliance of each individual plot . |
| 15 | He picked up the desserts and hurried into the room , addressing the table in these terms , Eva becoming more furious until an intense discussion broke out about the importance of intuition in the breakthrough stage of science . |
| 16 | He picked up the reins in a temper and slapped them hard across the horse 's back . |
| 17 | He says that when he got into the room the double bed was alight , he picked up the babies and got them out as quickly as he could . |
| 18 | After he had finished , he picked out the crumbs that had stuck in his beard . |
| 19 | She 's in the basement watching ‘ the telly ’ ' — he picked out the words sarcastically — ‘ though she did glance away from the screen just long enough to tell me that it was her mother 's bingo night . |