Example sentences of "when [pron] picked up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 2 | When I picked up the ball I did n't see the crowd , just that basket . ’ |
| 3 | Her hands were shaking when she picked up the receiver and dialled the number of Sabrina 's flat . |
| 4 | He was amused to observe that she forced herself to be a blank when she picked up the bowl of pus and blood . |
| 5 | she heard when she picked up the phone . |
| 6 | Ven was her first thought when she picked up the receiver . |
| 7 | One of Stephanie close colleagues has been under gun guard , police guard for a week following death threats on the alleged kidnapper , as the net closed on him he phoned estate agent Jane the girl who helped prepare the second artist impression , Jane had met him face to face when he called at the office in Great Bar Birmingham days before the kidnap to collect details on several houses for sale , her blood ran cold when she picked up the phone on Wednesday February the twelfth to hear his voice again |
| 8 | I expect you remember being taken and fetched each day — some four or five miles — sometimes by me and sometimes by Ruth Donnison — and how you used to fume when we picked up the Khin Zaw 's children who were always late . |
| 9 | The British Lions were amused to read of the plight of referee Steve McNally when they picked up the local paper in Paihia before the first match of their New Zealand tour . |
| 10 | Her voice , clear and pure , soared up to the roof of the theatre , and when it picked up the words of the chorus of ‘ My old man said follow the van … ’ , no one in that vast hall joined in , they just listened . |
| 11 | He grinned when he picked up the phone to check the dialling tone . |
| 12 | When he picked up the guitar , slung it round his neck , and started to tune the strings , there was no more doubt . |
| 13 | In the sixty fourth minute , Pedro Herbert restored the home side 's lead when he picked up the ball on the break and side footed it past keeper Cummings , to make it two one to Harefield . |