Example sentences of "picked up [prep] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sent her a brochure I had picked up at a travel agent , together with a bouquet of roses and a letter . |
| 2 | I could either meet him near there or he 'd have me picked up as a material witness and see how I enjoyed sharing a cell with Jack Scamp . |
| 3 | It is worth noting that although the children produced passages which facilitated greater learning , the changes which they made were not necessarily ones which would be picked up by a readability formula . |
| 4 | His choice of words , perhaps , was unfortunate , especially as they were picked up by a TV microphone and broadcast clearly to the nations . |
| 5 | Within minutes he had been picked up by a patrol car on the M5 in Gloucestershire . |
| 6 | I was picked up by a taxi driver once and we were going along and he said , ‘ Oh , I know that voice — oh , do n't tell me — you 're Jeremy Pascal , are n't you ? ’ |
| 7 | He was picked up by a rescue boat , but onlookers say THAT craft was then involved in a second accident . |
| 8 | Expedition organisers confirmed the two men had arrived safely at the Patriot Hills base on the Chilean side of the Antarctic after being picked up by a rescue plane . |
| 9 | •The letters and telephone calls were so numerous that Curtis Strange feels he owes golf fans an apology for an outburst of profanity , inadvertently picked up by a television microphone during an American event this summer . |