Example sentences of "pick [adv prt] their [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I wondered what chance I had of outstaying Lebanese men who had picked up their first Kalashnikov aged six , or the Vietnamese man who had seen his mother raped before going on to kill his first Cambodian at the age when I was doing my Common Entrance . |
| 2 | Andy McDowell ( 43 ) and Stephen Newell ( 27 ) gave the home side a sound start and at 83–1 they looked well placed to pick up their sixth win . |
| 3 | AFTER the midweek Arbroath avalanche , there was n't a snowball 's chance at sun-drenched Firhill of another crazy scoreline as Celtic picked up their first league win of the season , courtesy of Mark McNally . |
| 4 | AFTER the midweek Arbroath avalanche , there was n't a snowball 's chance at sun-drenched Firhill of another crazy scoreline as Celtic picked up their first league win of the season , courtesy of Mark McNally . |
| 5 | Arsenal picked up their first point in five games against Middlesbrough on Saturday and they face the prospect of a humiliating Coca-Cola Cup exit at Third Division Scarborough tomorrow . |
| 6 | ARTHUR Cox 's £7 million Derby side picked up their first point of the season at the fourth attempt on Saturday . |
| 7 | picked up their first points with a fifty three one o w win over Zimbabwe |
| 8 | Hull , who picked up their first win of the season against Leeds on Sunday , will take an unchanged side to unbeaten Warrington on Sunday , with the Australian Test forward , Noel Cleal , again appearing at centre . |