Example sentences of "he picked [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He picked up a mirror and looked at his own face , and then looked again at the face in the portrait . |
| 2 | He picked up a mirror and stared at his face . |
| 3 | He picked up a kitten by its tail and swung it to and fro in the air , laughing at its cries . |
| 4 | Hankin planned to select Ellison until he picked up a hamstring injury . |
| 5 | He picked up a can , ripped the ring-pull and held it out to her . |
| 6 | Instead , he picked up a stone and threw it into the bushes , then made a noise that sounded suspiciously like ‘ shoo , shoo ’ . |
| 7 | He picked up a stone and flung it into the horse pond . |
| 8 | Slowly and carefully he picked up a stone and threw it at the window . |
| 9 | He picked up a pint mug and leaned towards the cider barrel . |
| 10 | He picked up a doll from the bed and stood there idly stroking her hair . |
| 11 | He picked up a rosary of cheap light beads that lay coiled in an alabaster ashtray on a side table near the door . |
| 12 | He picked up a newspaper and looked through its pages . |
| 13 | She was not a woman to sound excited , but he picked up a thread of something like it in her voice . |
| 14 | He picked up a groin injury during his heroic performance in Lions colours in France and , with exhaustion probably exacerbating his condition , he makes way for David Thresher in the second row . |
| 15 | When he had recovered , he picked up a pencil and ruler , drew two straight lines , wrote ‘ Beech' in between them and handed the pencil to Willie . |
| 16 | He picked up a corkscrew and began to open a bottle of wine . |
| 17 | He picked up a gin and tonic from the same tray where Belinda had found hers , sipped it and made a face . |
| 18 | He picked up a pot of turquoise eyeshadow , dipped his forefinger in it , and scrawled across her buttocks , GREAT ASS . |
| 19 | He picked up a sheet of parchment from the table , glanced at it , and then raised his eyes . |
| 20 | Joseph grinned ruefully back at him for a moment , then sensing the senator was warming to a familiar theme , he picked up a history of French Indochina that lay open on the table before him and sank down in his chair behind it . |
| 21 | He picked up a knife from the table . |
| 22 | He went to take the ring from the drawer … there was a struggle … he picked up a knife … ’ |
| 23 | I said , can I have the sugar and he picked up a knife from the table-top and pretended to carve his heart out , put it in the sugar bowl and presented it to me . |
| 24 | He picked up a bronze of a naked beauty , standing on a shell . |
| 25 | He picked up a napkin which lay beside the plate and wiped his hands on it . |
| 26 | He picked up a cocktail sausage and gave it a light flourish . |
| 27 | He picked up a bottle of meths and took a ‘ slug ’ . |
| 28 | In fact , Johnrose was due to play for Preston at Pool a week ago , but he picked up a calf injury in the pre-match warm-up and missed the game . |
| 29 | He picked up a toy and placed it with the others on the pile . |
| 30 | He picked up a walking-stick — or something — from the hall-stand , and leapt up the stairs to find his wife and Kemp in medio coitu , both of them completely naked . |