Example sentences of "picked [adv prt] the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last week 's advertising awards , the Esso tiger picked up the Best Animal trophy when to me it was obvious that the Andrex puppy was the better creature . |
| 2 | For Clelia was , as she had claimed , a good audience : she listened with an attention that picked up the faintest vibrations of meaning . |
| 3 | I picked up the nearest coil and began to gather it up , but whereas in the summer heat the pipe had been soft and flexible , it now had the consistency of a steel cable and was like trying to lift a bedframe designed by Salvador Dali . |
| 4 | Without thinking , Moore picked up the nearest book and threw it . |
| 5 | But although he was so sensitive to conversation that he picked up the slightest nuance , his combination of " tea party cosiness and cold intellectuality " was " if not exactly intimidating , at least restraining " . |