Example sentences of "pick [adv prt] by an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er guys started to go down that to the twenty foot level where they were picked up by an inflatable off the standby boat . |
| 2 | Lieutenant Davis was caught ashore next night and his paddler , Able Seaman McGuire , was picked up by an armed fishing boat . |
| 3 | Four more S.79s were sent out from Sicily to search for it but one ran out of fuel and had to ditch , the crew being picked up by an Italian hospital ship . |
| 4 | Police fear the instrument may have been dumped and could be picked up by an unsuspecting member of the public . |
| 5 | Urquhart slowed his pace and glanced around , his head picked out by an orange-yellow from the street lamps . |