Example sentences of "pick [adv] [num] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had picked up one of the pups and examined it roughly before replacing it in the cardboard box with the others . |
| 2 | Or had a tourist picked up one of the cards she had lavishly distributed around the village shops and arrived to buy a souvenir ? |
| 3 | ‘ When did you last see your husband ? ’ she asked , picking up one of the queries the police had put to her . |
| 4 | ‘ Diamonds , eh ? ’ he said , picking up one of the rings . |
| 5 | Instead he examined the white , scabrous legs of the hospitaller , picking up one of the candles to study the purple-yellow bruise just above the shin on the corpse 's right leg . |
| 6 | From there she 'd be able to go down to the lakeside if she chose , or else pick up one of the shore paths that would take her further into the valley . |
| 7 | It 's when you pick up one of the guns , feel the metal , that their potentiality strikes you , and you marvel at the precision and care put into them . |
| 8 | The female alights on the rim of a stranger 's nest , picks up one of the eggs in her beak , flies off with it and then swallows it . |
| 9 | He walks out of the shrine without looking at the crowd , picks up one of the lambs , frightened and bleating , and carries its almost weightless body round to the side of the shrine . |
| 10 | They will attack anyone who picks up one of the instruments . |
| 11 | The pool is filled with water and bubbles and the kids scoot down the slide attached to the climbing frame into the bubble bath and the arms of a playworker who picks up one of the children and kisses his little red bum . |
| 12 | Without changing his position , Jacob reached between himself and the woman and picked up one of the tankards , holding it out to Seb . |
| 13 | He sat down at the bench and picked up one of the patterns Hari had made on paper . |
| 14 | With a swift movement he picked up one of the Lal Khals and kissed it on its head . |
| 15 | Annoyed , she picked up one of the cans — and dropped it again . |
| 16 | I picked up one of the cloths and helped her . |
| 17 | Hussa arrived with her mother and while Shama eased herself on to the carpet and settled against a cushion , Hussa picked up one of the newspapers which a driver brought from the village each morning . |
| 18 | Shales picked up one of the newspapers in front of him and pitched it down the table in Dowd 's direction . |
| 19 | He picked up one of the newspapers and began reading . |
| 20 | He picked up one of the ashtrays and sat down in an armchair , crossing his legs and balancing it on his knee . |
| 21 | I idly picked up one of the leaflets which had two pictures on its cover ; the first illustration showed a happy black family , all neatly dressed and reading books around a table that was filled with platefuls of food and with jugs labelled ‘ milk ’ . |
| 22 | Secure in the knowledge that she was no longer quite so helpless , Luce relaxed and picked up one of the magazines , which fluttered open . |
| 23 | She picked up one of the coins to look more closely and , in doing so , sent a ten pence piece spinning and rolling against the floorboards . |
| 24 | Henry Condell picked up one of the papers from the table . |
| 25 | She sat at the table , picked up one of the pens , and began work . |
| 26 | She picked up one of the chairs . |
| 27 | He picked up one of the bundles and walked away quickly . |
| 28 | She picked up one of the wire baskets that were stacked outside the supermarket and gave him a selfconscious , defiant stare . |
| 29 | He took a deep breath , coughed yet again , and picked up one of the sheets of paper before him . |
| 30 | Mrs Lennox crossed over and picked up one of the loaves . |