Example sentences of "he pick up a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next he picks up a large flat stone and , holding it overhead , mutters a prayer and smashes the skull , twice . |
| 2 | ‘ As for the terms in which St Paul expressed it — well , there you are he used any sort of figure that came to hand : he picked up a rhetorical metaphor from a cynic preaching in the market … . |
| 3 | He picked up a small square object from his desk , with wires leading from it . |
| 4 | In his anger and frustration , he picked up a long , curved clothes brush and banged it down hard on the surface of the table . |
| 5 | He picked up a long knife . |
| 6 | Then he picked up a long poker from the fireplace and had it like a rifle when he played the tape again . |
| 7 | He picked up a brimming wine goblet from the small table beside him . |
| 8 | He picked up a vicious-looking knife and incised the scalp from ear to ear , passing the blade behind the vertex of the head . |
| 9 | Absently , he picked up a blackened spacesuit glove that lay next to it . |
| 10 | He picked up a huge book h he picked up a large book with a huge green dinosaur on the front . |
| 11 | He picked up a huge book h he picked up a large book with a huge green dinosaur on the front . |
| 12 | He picked up a rubber glove whose open end was sucking in brown greasy water . |