Example sentences of "and picked up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Party manners — Hewlett-Packard Co hosted all the COSE meetings and picked up the pizza tab ; Sun Microsystems Inc then threw a celebratory dinner for the COSE teams on April 16 , the night before the announcement : now it 's IBM Corp 's turn , unless Lou Gerstner decides to sit it out , pleading poverty . |
| 2 | Hewlett-Packard Co hosted all the COSE meetings and picked up the pizza tab . |
| 3 | Ordering fresh coffee from the waitress who came to take my order , he passed me the Guardian and picked up the Sun . |
| 4 | He parked himself in the seat opposite and picked up the menu . |
| 5 | He walked over and picked up the pewter goblet , sniffing at it carefully . |
| 6 | It shook slightly as he scribbled an address , then pushed the serviette across the table , his body slowly relaxing as Ward let go of him and picked up the serviette . |
| 7 | She rushed back to the living room and picked up the snaps . |
| 8 | He left the kitchen and picked up the hotel cashbox from his office in the foyer . |
| 9 | Willie Moe snorted and picked up the boy by the leg and started to whirl him as if winding him up , which was part of a new routine called ‘ The Living Propeller ’ . |
| 10 | He passed her and picked up the sheet of paper . |
| 11 | Alex went over to the mantelpiece and picked up the Concorde ticket . |
| 12 | He looked relieved , kissed me , and picked up the bottle . |
| 13 | He stood up and picked up the candle and went wandering off into the shadows with it . |
| 14 | McGowan reached out and picked up the mask . |
| 15 | She crossed the bedroom and picked up the cigar and put it back on the table . |
| 16 | The idea had arisen for Frank through his location and questions that had come up about muons ; Sakharov had been developing fusion in secret and picked up the notion because he would have been on the lookout for any papers about fusion , of whatever sort . |
| 17 | Then she hurried into the hall and picked up the telephone , intent upon speaking to Ursula and demanding an explanation . |
| 18 | He rose , walked round the table and picked up the skein . |
| 19 | As she could hear Jack coming down the stairs she returned to the kitchen and picked up the metal spoon and plunged it into the saucepan which she had not yet put on to heat . |
| 20 | The four set off along Brunel Road , following the tunnel wall until they passed the Labour Exchange then they veered left and picked up the road which ran alongside the river . |
| 21 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |
| 22 | A tall , well-built girl in a star-spangled bathing suit knelt by Miss Liberty , and picked up the coronet . |
| 23 | Hari pushed past the woman and picked up the boots hugging them to her in a rush of relief . |
| 24 | Ginny ran into the hall and picked up the handset . |
| 25 | So insistent was the noise that she padded downstairs in her nightshirt and picked up the handset . |
| 26 | After it she felt soothed of any irritation she may have felt with the last letter , wiped her mouth with satisfaction , and picked up the Oswaldston Gazette . |
| 27 | She sat on the opposite couchette and picked up the paperback he had been reading . |
| 28 | Lowell bent down and picked up the fragment of urn , wiping it with the palm of his hand . |
| 29 | He stretched and picked up the phone , but before he could dial he realised he had cut in on a conversation . |
| 30 | He was halfway through his coffee when he swung his legs off the couch and picked up the phone to the embassy . |