Example sentences of "picked up [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 2 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 3 | In one lightning movement the two fishermen picked up two pails of stinking fish heads and flung them lovingly at the Lionisers ' feet . |
| 4 | For example , we went to the thrift store not so long ago and picked up two pairs of flared pants . |
| 5 | Henry picked up another set of handles and in a moment Prince Charming was walking towards Cinderella and bowing from the waist . |
| 6 | Wright said : ‘ After the victory over Blackburn a couple of weeks ago , I picked up some kind of flu bug . |
| 7 | We carried troops dropped them off in Italy and picked up German prisoners of war and Yugoslav refugees to take to Port Said . |