Example sentences of "he pick up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the corner of her eye , she watched him pick up the first coil of rope . |
| 2 | She saw him pick up a long strip of heavy material . |
| 3 | Turry has to be the best-armed hero of all time and when he picks up a few power-ups you 'd think he was invincible . |
| 4 | Next he picks up a large flat stone and , holding it overhead , mutters a prayer and smashes the skull , twice . |
| 5 | On the platform he picks up the local rumours . |
| 6 | ‘ As for the terms in which St Paul expressed it — well , there you are he used any sort of figure that came to hand : he picked up a rhetorical metaphor from a cynic preaching in the market … . |
| 7 | He picked up a small square object from his desk , with wires leading from it . |
| 8 | In his anger and frustration , he picked up a long , curved clothes brush and banged it down hard on the surface of the table . |
| 9 | He picked up a long knife . |
| 10 | Then he picked up a long poker from the fireplace and had it like a rifle when he played the tape again . |
| 11 | He picked up a second kitten , dangled one from each hand , swung them so that they hit each other . |
| 12 | He picked up a brimming wine goblet from the small table beside him . |
| 13 | He picked up a vicious-looking knife and incised the scalp from ear to ear , passing the blade behind the vertex of the head . |
| 14 | Absently , he picked up a blackened spacesuit glove that lay next to it . |
| 15 | He picked up a few tricks of the trade as he progressed . |
| 16 | He picked up a huge book h he picked up a large book with a huge green dinosaur on the front . |
| 17 | He picked up a huge book h he picked up a large book with a huge green dinosaur on the front . |
| 18 | He picked up a rubber glove whose open end was sucking in brown greasy water . |
| 19 | He picked up the dry droppings and crumbled them in his hand . |
| 20 | Then he picked up the internal phone and pressed a button . |
| 21 | He picked up the blue card again , thinking about his novel . |
| 22 | Squatting down , he picked up the other five squirming bodies and stuffed them into a cloth sack . |
| 23 | He picked up the two chairs and placed one on each side of the fireplace . |
| 24 | He picked up the two grips and the empty suitcase Tom Rooney had given then to lend credence to their story . |
| 25 | Then he picked up the two bags and led her into the terminal . |
| 26 | Senior Sea King pilot Lt Cmdr George Wallace spoke of the shelling as he picked up the two injured men . |
| 27 | He picked up the sharp knife once more with a frown and growled at the meat as he diced it , imagining that it was Bessie he was carving up . |
| 28 | ‘ He picked up the burning bomb , which promptly blazed its way through the handle , so the only way to put it out was by throwing on his great coat . |
| 29 | ‘ My lipstick fell out of my bag , you see , and he trod on it — not on the carpet , thank heaven ! — so he picked up the mangled remains and asked if he could get me another . |
| 30 | He picked up the lop-sided contraption that was meant to be his pheasant trap . |