Example sentences of "picked up [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He picked up a mirror and looked at his own face , and then looked again at the face in the portrait . |
| 2 | He picked up a mirror and stared at his face . |
| 3 | But in a house in the heart of the Woodfield Estate there was no whistling as a man searched the streets for the fourth time for his child , then finally , belatedly , picked up a telephone and rang the police . |
| 4 | Then she picked up a telephone and talked to Conway . |
| 5 | Instead , he picked up a stone and threw it into the bushes , then made a noise that sounded suspiciously like ‘ shoo , shoo ’ . |
| 6 | Allen whistled , picked up a stone and flung it high into the trees . |
| 7 | He picked up a stone and flung it into the horse pond . |
| 8 | Slowly and carefully he picked up a stone and threw it at the window . |
| 9 | As she cleared away the tray , Stanley picked up a newspaper and started to read . |
| 10 | He picked up a newspaper and looked through its pages . |
| 11 | Aunt Kit picked up a newspaper and smoothed it out on her knee . |
| 12 | Rees opened with a penalty and then picked up a try and its conversion when the Eagle half-backs fumbled . |
| 13 | He picked up a corkscrew and began to open a bottle of wine . |
| 14 | She picked up a pen and drew a line through the service charge , then handed the bill to the indignant guest . |
| 15 | He reached for a sheet of paper , picked up a pen and began writing . |
| 16 | And as the house playback signalled the end of the number , she picked up a pen and some scrap paper and went out to collect orders for interval food and coffee . |
| 17 | He then picked up a stool and brought it down towards her but it smashed a ceiling light . |
| 18 | Manolo took a couple of hits of coffee , and picked up a wrist-exerciser that probably doubled as some kind of sex aid . |
| 19 | She picked up a candle and ran nimbly up the steps and into the kitchen . |
| 20 | Then I picked up a pebble and flung it out to sea ; it rose straight up into the air and landed on the ground a few yards behind me . |
| 21 | She picked up a brush and began to attack her hair . |
| 22 | Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to . |
| 23 | When he had recovered , he picked up a pencil and ruler , drew two straight lines , wrote ‘ Beech' in between them and handed the pencil to Willie . |
| 24 | Then she picked up a pencil and quickly worked out the sum on a piece of paper . |
| 25 | Then , she picked up a half-brick and threw it through the drugstore window . |
| 26 | He picked up a gin and tonic from the same tray where Belinda had found hers , sipped it and made a face . |
| 27 | On the cusp of the second zone , close to the mainline station — the place where he always went — Ellwood picked up a girl and took her home . |
| 28 | They picked up a phone and called Max Clifford , thus providing their daughter with an opportunity to get things off her chest . |
| 29 | He picked up a toy and placed it with the others on the pile . |
| 30 | After she had gulped the pancake , she picked up a shrimp and ate that saying : ‘ I like that . ’ |