Example sentences of "who picked [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a rich woman who picked up the check for her friends — in short they were an entourage . |
| 2 | But the quick-thinking cabbie , who picked up the woman from a pub in Exeter , Devon , alerted a cashier when the hijacker ordered him to stop at a motorway service station for cigarettes . |
| 3 | guess who picked up the account just after that ? |
| 4 | Legislation had been passed , at the height of the bubble , to stop the creation of new joint-stock companies , which ruled out one of the ways in which the British had organized their expansion overseas , Walpole , the Prime Minister who picked up the pieces after the collapse , was first of all concerned to make sure that the King and his government did not run into any more trouble , which meant a programme of no new taxes , no wars , no new assertion of authority , and much less expansion than either before or after . |
| 5 | Mercer , who picked up the injury in the first 20 minutes , was substituted by Andy Goodway but bravely returned in the second half wearing a protective head guard . |
| 6 | If Southend police could run in some young man who picked up the car on the Foulness road yesterday afternoon . |