Example sentences of "i [verb] picked [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-odd years earlier , I 'd picked up an idea from the marvellously creative Bill Brown who was Director of Billy Graham 's Crusades in 1966–7 . |
| 2 | I had picked up a bit of surgery from him , of course , so here I am . |
| 3 | I had picked up a box of letters and was glancing at them , when Frankenstein returned from above and caught me . |
| 4 | They said that , in the narrow passageway , a corridor whose opposite walls I can touch comfortably with two hands , I had picked up an aluminium chair , ripped it in half , swung it around and hit a policeman with it so hard that he had to shield his head . |
| 5 | Somehow I had picked up the idea that putting the patient in a tub of hot water sometimes had the desired effect . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've picked up a bit , ’ Emily said , ‘ but the law takes a kind of mind . |
| 7 | I 'm a dealer and I 've picked up a couple of pieces which I can probably place with clients |
| 8 | There 's the odd exception where I 've picked up a brand new one and it 's worked right away . |
| 9 | I THINK I 'VE PICKED UP A BUG OF SOME SORT . |