Example sentences of "picked [adv prt] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He picked up the King in his arms and we opened the door . |
| 2 | Rima picked up the cassowary in his strong arms and clasped the hard thigh muscles with both hands while Joseph sawed through the creepers . |
| 3 | I noticed the leather of my shoes darken as it picked up the moisture from the grass . |
| 4 | He was amused to observe that she forced herself to be a blank when she picked up the bowl of pus and blood . |
| 5 | He threw his dressing gown casually on the chair and — with never a glance at Arty — jumped between the sheets , picked up the newspaper from the floor beside the bed , opened it out and peered over the top , his ears tuned to the conversation . |
| 6 | For answer , I picked up the newspaper from where I 'd thrown it on the desk . |
| 7 | Vitor picked up the tightness in her voice . |
| 8 | Alyssia was still feeling inordinately pleased with herself when , half an hour later , she picked up the telephone in the little village post office and dialled her father 's direct work line . |
| 9 | She looked at it with considerable disbelief , picked up the bucket by its rim with her teeth , and tossed it aside : seven seconds ! |
| 10 | jack London , as an American journalist visiting Britain , picked up the mood in The People of the Abyss ( 1902 ) . |
| 11 | Rodi 's second husband Gordon , 64 , died two months before she picked up the cheque from Bergerac star John Nettles . |
| 12 | In the queue , she picked up the smell of long-term poverty . |
| 13 | There was a rich woman who picked up the check for her friends — in short they were an entourage . |
| 14 | Philip picked up the roll of wire and nipped off a length with the cutters . |
| 15 | Philip picked up the roll of wire from beside the hide and clipped off a good length of wire . |
| 16 | Now our houses backed on to each other , with only the party wall between , so she just picked up the poker from the fender and started banging on the wall so that the plaster showered a cloud of dust in the room . |
| 17 | He picked up the poker from the fireplace and jumped up . |
| 18 | He picked up the ball on the edge of his penalty area , pushed it to Ricky McAvoy who laid on the chance for McCallan to drill his shot past Wesley Lamont . |
| 19 | In the sixty fourth minute , Pedro Herbert restored the home side 's lead when he picked up the ball on the break and side footed it past keeper Cummings , to make it two one to Harefield . |
| 20 | Mark Gill picked up the ball in the middle of the Park and , with the Portadown defence spreadeagled and offering no challenge , he calmly lobbed it over their heads and also that of Magee who had come off his line . |
| 21 | A hawk had swooped low over the field of play , picked up the ball in its claws and flown off with it . |
| 22 | He picked up the women in the street . |
| 23 | The students picked up the lack of concern on the part of their teachers and became indifferent . |
| 24 | Mr. Crowther picked up the papers in front of him and set them down again very neatly . |
| 25 | He ran along the carpeted passage and into the drawing-room where he picked up the phone without speaking . |
| 26 | He was halfway through his coffee when he swung his legs off the couch and picked up the phone to the embassy . |
| 27 | The Sheikh motioned us to sit down , left his men outside , and picked up the phone on the table . |
| 28 | One of Stephanie close colleagues has been under gun guard , police guard for a week following death threats on the alleged kidnapper , as the net closed on him he phoned estate agent Jane the girl who helped prepare the second artist impression , Jane had met him face to face when he called at the office in Great Bar Birmingham days before the kidnap to collect details on several houses for sale , her blood ran cold when she picked up the phone on Wednesday February the twelfth to hear his voice again |
| 29 | He passed her and picked up the sheet of paper . |
| 30 | She jotted it down , picked up the plaster from the surgery , then went to have a quick word with Helen . |