Example sentences of "she [adv] picked [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now our houses backed on to each other , with only the party wall between , so she just picked up the poker from the fender and started banging on the wall so that the plaster showered a cloud of dust in the room . |
| 2 | A lady friend of mine , working in an aircraft factory , tells me she once picked up a wage packet of £40 a week . |
| 3 | And Beauty in her turn was sober , sensible , and one hundred per cent reliable — until the day she carefully picked up in her teeth a full bucket of water , and then just as carefully poured it over her owner 's head ! |
| 4 | She also picked up a number of recently composed ‘ revival ’ songs , like Andy Hunter 's Up and Awa wi' the Laverock . |
| 5 | ‘ She looked at her step-mother but uttered not a single word ; she simply picked up our big drap-de-dames green shawl ( it 's a shawl we all use , a drap-de-dames one ) , and covered her head and face entirely with it ad lay down on the bed with her face to the wall , ad her little shoulders and her whole body were trembling . ' |