Example sentences of "picked it [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He picked it up and set the flowers down on the locker . |
| 2 | She picked it up and set it on her knee , then began taking out the yellow and black wooden pieces and setting them on the board . |
| 3 | The telephone rang , and as soon as she picked it up and heard the echo on the line from the Prince 's lofty Palace rooms , she knew who was calling . |
| 4 | When the telephone rang , she picked it up and heard the Colonel 's voice . |
| 5 | Racing into his flat , he picked it up and heard his mother 's voice . |
| 6 | He picked it up and brushed it off quickly . |
| 7 | The poet picked it up and sang another song … |
| 8 | Near the chancel arch is a niche dedicated to St Sitha — her only claim to fame , according to local tradition , is that she was martyred , her head was cut off ‘ and she picked it up and ran three miles to the nearby ( sic ! ) church to warn the other Christians . ’ |
| 9 | He picked it up and ran out on to the platform hoping to return it to its owner . |
| 10 | I picked it up and ran away . |
| 11 | I picked it up and chucked it back . |
| 12 | He picked it up and carried it a mile across a field for help . |
| 13 | A half-empty bottle of red wine stood on the telephone table and he picked it up and drank from it with his left hand as he lifted the receiver with his right . |
| 14 | Reluctantly she picked it up and listened for a moment . |
| 15 | He picked it up and dropped it in a bowl of fruit punch . |
| 16 | It landed on the floor beside Lavender 's desk and very quickly she ducked down and picked it up and put it into her pencil-box for another time . |
| 17 | It assured him of his right to be here and he picked it up and put it in his jacket pocket before walking through into the hall with its white doors leading to the reception rooms . |
| 18 | Reverently I picked it up and buried it in our back garden — three feet down seemed to me an appropriate depth . |
| 19 | I just picked it up and got rid of it . |
| 20 | I picked it up and looked at it . |
| 21 | ‘ No it 's the phone , ’ said Ellen , who picked it up and had a pretend conversation in her undifferentiated monotone . |
| 22 | I picked it up and bit deeply . |
| 23 | She picked it up and said ‘ Sorry ’ . |
| 24 | Ah cos er I picked it up and said hello and that was it |
| 25 | He picked it up and walked across . |
| 26 | Sampson 's letter was underneath him , and he picked it up and straightened it out . |
| 27 | So I chipped it into a little space over the scrum , ran round , picked it up and went up the middle of the field . |
| 28 | He picked it up and went to the door of the tent . |
| 29 | Someone had left a copy of the evening paper beside him , and he picked it up and glanced at the headline . |
| 30 | Wearily Spruce picked it up and glanced at it again . |