Example sentences of "picked up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the appointed time Venturous ' was in position near Nieuport just outside the three mile territorial limit and in due course picked up a small craft leaving the Belgian port . |
| 2 | Tumbleweed poked about with a stick and then picked up a small bundle wrapped in a piece of black plastic bin-liner . |
| 3 | And eventually in exasperation the bird flew a short way down the beach and picked up a small stone in its beak and then it returned and it bashed the shell repeatedly until it cracked it open and it was able to get at the contents inside . |
| 4 | Joseph picked up a small parcel and walked down the length of the shop to hand it to Patrick . |
| 5 | John , rooting around near the tree on the window seat , picked up a small package . |
| 6 | The man picked up a small portmanteau that had been hidden in shadow by the rail , and with one last sweeping look across the quay , climbed on to the gangplank . |
| 7 | She picked up a small piece of paper lying beside her and began turning it over and over in her fingers . |
| 8 | She picked up a small statuette which he had n't been aware of before . |
| 9 | Along the way they picked up a Swedish girl , Eva Vincett , who had married an Englishman , so then there were three ! |
| 10 | Harris , who also picked up a speeding conviction last year , was disqualified from driving for 21 days and fined £100 . |
| 11 | He picked up a brimming wine goblet from the small table beside him . |
| 12 | I picked up a dental chisel and resolved to sell my life dearly . |
| 13 | Some years ago , walking along a riverside with a Pakistani biochemist , I picked up a flat stone and bounced it across the water . |
| 14 | Craig reached into his pocket and caressed his lucky deck of cards , then felt around with his other hand and picked up a flat toolcase made of heavy-duty plastic . |
| 15 | Tossing her safari jacket aside with a regretful air , she shrugged on the purloined lab coat , picked up a dusty clipboard from the shelf , and stepped back out into the corridor . |
| 16 | In Porchester Terrace they picked up a blue Mark 1 Zephyr and drove sedately home to Lancaster Road . |
| 17 | Mary picked up a woollen scarf . |
| 18 | Somehow , though , Leith 's sensitivity picked up a strained atmosphere as she pulled her glance back from the stocky man who had taken it into his head to start walking over . |
| 19 | 4 children from Swindon picked up lambs here at Southleaze farm and picked up a dangerous parasite , cryptosporidium . |
| 20 | In 1987 detectors in Japan and America picked up a ten-second burst of neutrinos from the collapse of a giant star . |
| 21 | A spokesman for the group , currently on a world tour , said : ‘ They picked up a nasty virus in Australia . ’ |
| 22 | The old woman dropped the Access card into her pinafore pocket and picked up a framed photograph from a small table near the window . |
| 23 | Absently , he picked up a blackened spacesuit glove that lay next to it . |
| 24 | Johnny Jamieson picked up a first half knock in the 2– defeat by Portadown but he is expected to be fit in time for Saturday . |
| 25 | At the top of the pillar , the 26-year-old guide picked up a new sack of food and popped across to the Freney face to solo a new direct version of the Central Pillar ( Chris Bonington 's finest hour ) . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've lost four clients out of a total of 1,800 and I expect others will drift away , but we picked up a new client just this morning . ’ |
| 27 | Unfortunately , although a good time was had by all , a number of the team picked up a strange flu bug . |
| 28 | Without pausing for wisecracks , she picked up a cheap map . |
| 29 | I picked up a young man on my first journey out of Durham about 6.30 on the morning . |
| 30 | Recently , I picked up a young bird which one of my cats had caught ; I held it in my hands in the hope that it might survive . |