Example sentences of "she pick [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She , one day she tell me dat she saw a ghost — or somefing like a ghost , a person who come in the house — she tell me she pick up a brick and break i bones — de ting run like she no know what .
2 Her dislike of him was such that during the filming of A Letter to Four Wives , in which she picks up a photograph of a man and reacts with distaste , director Joe Mankiewicz used a photo of Preminger which prompted exactly the right expression from Darnell .
3 She picks up a cigarette , and lights it .
4 Me friend over in Norway , she said she 's she got over there and sat down and she thought , yes , she 's got the Complete Works of Shakespeare , I 'll have a whale of a time trying to read it , she picks up the book , it 's all in Norwegian .
5 Should she pick up the baby whenever it cries or leave it until it settles of its own accord ?
6 She picked up a brass poker and stirred up the fire which already burnt brightly in the grate .
7 She picked up a pen , and started to write , in English .
8 She picked up a pen and drew a line through the service charge , then handed the bill to the indignant guest .
9 And as the house playback signalled the end of the number , she picked up a pen and some scrap paper and went out to collect orders for interval food and coffee .
10 She picked up a New York paper from the pile on the coffee table .
11 As the door closed behind him , she picked up a wad of tissues and threw them after him , scowling darkly as they fluttered harmlessly to the floor .
12 In the living room she picked up a couple of wine glasses from the floor and set them down on a coffee table .
13 She picked up a candle and ran nimbly up the steps and into the kitchen .
14 She picked up a bucket filled with weeds .
15 She picked up a Biro off his desk and levelled it at him .
16 She picked up a knife lying on the draining board by the sink , and drove it towards the man 's hand .
17 After she had gulped the pancake , she picked up a shrimp and ate that saying : ‘ I like that . ’
18 She picked up a cotton skirt patterned with roses .
19 Then she picked up a telephone and talked to Conway .
20 She picked up a sheet of estate agent 's particulars .
21 She picked up a brush from the dressing-table and began sweeping it through her thick , luxuriant hair .
22 She picked up a brush and began to attack her hair .
23 Then she picked up a parcel lying next to her , and looked round to see if the driver was coming back .
24 Then she picked up a pencil and quickly worked out the sum on a piece of paper .
25 But Miss Angus slapped her wrist sharply with a teaspoon , as she picked up a paperback with her other hand and examined it closely .
26 Then , she picked up a half-brick and threw it through the drugstore window .
27 Another time she cut herself with the serrated edge of a lemon slicer ; on yet another occasion , during a heated argument with Prince Charles , she picked up a penknife lying on his dressing table and cut her chest and her thighs .
28 She picked up a piece of paper and began drawing little cameo pictures of the bowl of fruit on the sideboard , of the flowers in the garden , bending under the wind .
29 She picked up a piece of pottery and turned it over .
30 Nurse Motley said that except for a moment when she picked up a piece of paper and threw it in the bin , she had been standing by Kayley 's head the whole time .
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