Example sentences of "had picked [adv prt] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had picked up a fare in the City — an army deserter called Percy Toplis , who asked to be driven to Basingstoke . |
| 2 | The couple were taken to police headquarters for questioning where they admitted they had picked up a man on the night of 10 July by the harbour but did not know him and had only given him a lift into town . |
| 3 | His skin had picked up a glow from the lilies on the table . |
| 4 | His reputation as a hard man — he had picked up a conviction for GBH — had won him work on the bouncer circuit and the title ‘ King of the Bouncers ’ . |
| 5 | I had picked up a bit of surgery from him , of course , so here I am . |
| 6 | He had picked up a group of experienced hunter-killers from the Phoenix NoGo , and turned them loose on the remaining sandrats . |
| 7 | I had picked up a box of letters and was glancing at them , when Frankenstein returned from above and caught me . |
| 8 | Jay had picked up a pattern of sleeplessness over the last five months . |
| 9 | A final vote showed Tory support remained solid while the LibDems had picked up a handful of votes at Labour 's expense . |
| 10 | It was clear that she had picked up a lot from the Prince 's own style , especially the self-deprecating wit . |
| 11 | She had complained of stomach problems after returning and doctors at first thought she had picked up an infection in Africa . |
| 12 | Poshekhonov said that he had found the way to laugh , he had picked up the spear of ridicule . |
| 13 | She had picked up the letters from the wire box behind the front door , dropped off her coat on her way across the hall and gone into the kitchen . |
| 14 | Maxim had picked up the story from friends in the Intelligence Corps . |
| 15 | They had picked up the man at the bottom of the hill . |
| 16 | Norma had picked up the idea from a little woman in Brixton . |
| 17 | People who had had experience of the National Assembly , where much the same procedures were followed , or who had picked up the style from televised broadcasts of it , were at a decided advantage . |
| 18 | Miss Braithwaite had picked up the gap in Hereward 's curriculum vitae fast enough . |
| 19 | Richie had picked up the urgency in his voice and had stopped chewing . |
| 20 | The three-year-old had picked up the patter from watching his dad Keith on the airwaves . |
| 21 | He said he had never seen the drugs before , claiming he had picked up the syringe after seeing it lying around before the party . |
| 22 | He had picked up the phrase from his teenage secretary . |
| 23 | ‘ The police called the shop 's manager Jonathan White at 3 o'clock on Wednesday morning to say that the audio alarm had picked up the sound of a bomb going off . |
| 24 | As Fulbright presented it , in what amounted to a proclamation of American innocence and British guilt , the US had been had' by her allies ; and while this may not appear to be entirely convincing , Fulbright had picked up the importance of what Acheson had described as the danger of Ho Chi Minh 's ‘ direct communist connection ’ — and might , indeed , have gone further . |
| 25 | As mail boy , he had picked up the habit of addressing everyone by their Christian name , whoever they were . |
| 26 | He had picked up the pieces after the war and it must have come as a total shock to someone with his background to find players in his side who rocked the boat . |
| 27 | There , with an expert hand , he had picked out an assortment of dresses , skirts and blouses for her to try . |