Example sentences of "[pers pn] picked a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I picked a fish-louse from it as it lay on the unhooking mat , dabbed a bit of waterproof ointment on a small wound on its flank , then slipped it back into the water . |
| 2 | I picked a man who looked as if he was in his late thirties or early forties . |
| 3 | I picked a hawthorn leaf . |
| 4 | I picked a fight with the biggest one , which turned into a full-pitch playground battle , and went home with a bloody nose , two black eyes and a front tooth missing . ’ |
| 5 | Ten weeks later , Jill told Newsline : ‘ I picked a date to stop smoking and finished completely . |
| 6 | she 's come home and that , and I I picked a few words up like , and |
| 7 | ‘ I picked a team to do a job on the night . |
| 8 | He said well you 've got no bloody springs on the pawls , I says so I picked a tin of springs up , we kept it for anybody who wanted a spring for their bike , any spring where , you know the hooks on each end ? |
| 9 | last year I should of had that winner , I picked a and it won |
| 10 | I thought it would be all one price er , unless I picked a |
| 11 | I picked a on Status Quo . |
| 12 | I picked an individual Cottage Pie , because that is something I sometimes prepare at home and I think I know how good ( or terrible ! ) it can be . |
| 13 | She picked a bunch of flowers for Alan once . |
| 14 | Fortunately for this particular hippy , she picked a merchant with a well-earned reputation for consistently high quality , because since the early Seventies a bewildering number of organisations have sprung up with the intention of guaranteeing a wine 's organic credentials . |
| 15 | When she was almost home she picked a sprig of dā telo , pricking her thumb on a thorn and sucking the blood that rose to the surface . |
| 16 | She walked down Chestnut Drive , and as she picked a leaf off a privet hedge here , and ran her hand along a row of railings there , she thought that it was not so bad after all , and that she would tell them about it : they always said , when accused of indifference , that they were interested , so she would jolly well try to make them show a bit of their interest . |
| 17 | She picked a dying leaf from a branchy green-pink flecked begonia . |
| 18 | They would say , oh yes , he went to school , she picked a cat . |
| 19 | Her last purchase should have been bread — she picked a flat circular loaf rather than a baguette — but she succumbed to temptation and bought one of the plastic containers of the local vin ordinaire , amazingly cheap and good for its price , and several bottles of water too . |
| 20 | She picked a block of the red ice and watched her dreaming son . |
| 21 | She picked a saucepan off the cooker and raised it high , as if she might fling it across the kitchen like a hatchet . |
| 22 | She picked a mixed posy of flowers and put them in the small basket she was carrying , and then wandered down through the orchard . |
| 23 | With guidance she picked a long , beaded dress with a side split and see-through sleeves , which she wore to a special anniversary dinner . |
| 24 | So she picked a basket of raspberries and we were in the cottage , Joey would starts and skims some cream off the top of the churning . |
| 25 | Then , leaning forward , she picked an olive out of the glass dish in front of them and held it between thumb and forefinger . |
| 26 | ( Parody : chorus to the tune of ‘ You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me Lucille ’ ) |
| 27 | Now quite a lot of you picked a piece of bone did n't you . |
| 28 | picked pottery , some of you got building material , this lad here and someone round there , right , and a couple of you picked a piece of shell . |
| 29 | So that means if you picked a bit of the outline up now , pick a bit alright , I reckon if you do area select now select |
| 30 | On an outing to the obscure Gate Crag in Eskdale we picked a route called Bosigran — this had to be climbed because I 'd just returned from my first climbing trip to Cornwall . |