Example sentences of "i pick up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't write much this time because I 'm so near to coming home that my hand shakes every time I pick up a pen . |
| 2 | This obviously absorbing hobby is a good stress reliever , ‘ It 's pure escapism and therapeutic — if I have had a frustrating day at work , the minute I get home I pick up a piece of modelling plastic and start modelling , ’ said Rosemary . |
| 3 | ‘ Dragging also depends on size , so if I pick up a bunch of stuff I get a lower dragging sound than if I pick up just one . |
| 4 | ‘ I pick up the pencil , put it back , climb into the trunk of the car and you drive me to see the boy . |
| 5 | go I pick up the accent . |
| 6 | I pick up the phone . |
| 7 | I pick up the phone again and dial the Home Office . |
| 8 | I pick up the bike and return it to the shed . |
| 9 | Instead , I pick up the clock on it and I see it is half-past six . |
| 10 | I pick up the gun and pocket it . |
| 11 | I pick up the receiver . |
| 12 | I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen . |
| 13 | I know what a flea and a slug look like , I do n't want to be frightened to death every time I pick up the packet . |
| 14 | I pick up the paper and think about my father 's Social Security card sitting on my desk at home . |
| 15 | I pick up the cards and deal a circle for Clock Patience . |
| 16 | I pick up the scissors because I 'm alone in the shop and if he touches me again he 'll leave without something he came in with , when the bell goes on the door and this other boy in a city suit comes in , boring yuppie sort . |
| 17 | It moves another two inches and stops , then another two inches and stops , and continues like so until I pick up the rod and strike . |
| 18 | In the front seat by Des I fiddle with my receiver till I pick up the signal from the mike in his pocket . |
| 19 | I picks up the phone and dialled a special number for the fraud squad . |
| 20 | Why ca n't I pick up the phone and say , Come on , darling ? |
| 21 | ( Why Why did I pick up the telephone ) |
| 22 | Then I picked up a bit of naan bread and mopped up my curry sauce . |
| 23 | But the pitch was wet when I picked up a swag against them at Bradford . |
| 24 | Then I picked up a pebble and flung it out to sea ; it rose straight up into the air and landed on the ground a few yards behind me . |
| 25 | I picked up a couple once — The Dawning of Extraordinary Being and The Zigzag Path of Super-Zen . |
| 26 | Later I picked up a station from Orlando , WINS — I listened to a maudlin piece about the poor families of soldiers and pilots . |
| 27 | I picked up a folded-back magazine and began to read a passage pointed up in lime highlighter . |
| 28 | I picked up a pair of combat boots from a pile in the corner , found some laces , and looked at the other people wondering with whom I could swop my uniform . |
| 29 | I picked up a shell to take a closer look . |
| 30 | One of the most arduous of these was in my junior days when I picked up a seaman in the docks attempting to sell cigarettes to a factory worker . |