Example sentences of "picked up the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was amused to observe that she forced herself to be a blank when she picked up the bowl of pus and blood . |
| 2 | In the queue , she picked up the smell of long-term poverty . |
| 3 | Philip picked up the roll of wire and nipped off a length with the cutters . |
| 4 | Philip picked up the roll of wire from beside the hide and clipped off a good length of wire . |
| 5 | The students picked up the lack of concern on the part of their teachers and became indifferent . |
| 6 | He passed her and picked up the sheet of paper . |
| 7 | He picked up the wafer of liquid crystal which represented himself and stared at the High Priest 's face , his own , wishing that his own image could confide in him in the same way that the Harlequin had . |
| 8 | Some while later Colonel James Churchward picked up the idea of Mu . |
| 9 | Abruptly Aggie picked up the handles of the flat-cart , then almost growling ‘ Come on ! ’ she pushed it along the road , the child trotting beside her now . |
| 10 | Anne could see , though , that he was trembling as he picked up the handles of the handcart and moved away . |
| 11 | She picked up the basket of flowers from the ground . |
| 12 | Holding the revolver in his right hand , Urquhart searched the chief inspector for a weapon and , finding none , picked up the pile of possessions from the floor . |
| 13 | He picked up the bottle of wine . |
| 14 | Lowell bent down and picked up the fragment of urn , wiping it with the palm of his hand . |
| 15 | C. W. Whitlock emerged from the living-room on to the balcony of his sixth-floor Manhattan apartment , picked up the pair of tongs hanging beside the portable barbecue and prodded the simmering charcoal briquettes through the bars of the grill . |
| 16 | I picked up the stack of mail from the coffee-table and dealt myself one off the bottom : the envelope that contains my monthly bank statement , with its familiar brown matt and the wax seal like a blob of blood . |
| 17 | Then I picked up the lights of Burnham to starboard , and knew roughly where I was . |
| 18 | Some of the discipline went out of the play , but as others tired Jess picked up the pace of the game and finished looking as likely as match-winner as anyone . |
| 19 | When he was satisfied they were doing it correctly he picked up the head of the dead buffalo and carried it to the river . |
| 20 | She picked up the list of names and looked at it carefully . |
| 21 | De Raimes shrugged carelessly and picked up the lid of a warming dish , inspecting the food beneath it . |
| 22 | He leant forward and picked up the bunch of keys and the bit of paper . |
| 23 | She picked up the slips of pasteboard and let them fall haphazardly on the table in front of them . |
| 24 | ‘ And I 'll take this for what I 'm owed , ’ I said , and picked up the cloth of papers . |
| 25 | She picked up the string of the cardboard box containing her gas mask and slung it over her shoulder . |
| 26 | Philip picked up the armful of sticks he 'd gathered and walked across to his hide . |
| 27 | Then she picked up the book of ‘ psychological correspondences ’ again and began with difficulty to read the letters . |
| 28 | My father picked up the Book of Remembering . |
| 29 | Peter picked up the photograph of John Redburn . |
| 30 | The Loch Ness and Morar Project itself picked up the threads of the Loch Ness Investigation ( LNI ) , which was founded by David James and Peter Scott in 1962 . |