Example sentences of "picked up [art] little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the game larder , pheasants and duck and partridge hung by their necks in winter time , and bunches of snipe waited , pin-eyes closed , to be plucked — once Nicandra picked up a little bird , too mangled to hang in the bunch and faced him with a fellow . |
| 2 | She picked up a little knife which had been lying in the lap of one of the dolls . |
| 3 | As she talked , Annabel picked up a little box from the bedside table ; it was an antique ebony snuffbox , the lid inlaid with a geometric pattern of tortoiseshell and ivory . |
| 4 | She picked up a little bag from the table . |
| 5 | When he saw Robert , he picked up the little boy and ran towards the house . |