Example sentences of "have picked [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when I 'd picked myself up from the floor , my arm bruised from shoulder to wrist , I thought ‘ I 'll show the buggers . ’ |
| 2 | What 's more , who 'd have believed he 'd picked her up in a wine bar ? |
| 3 | He was a young Irish American who 'd picked her up in a New York bar a week ago . |
| 4 | I thought I 'd picked it up off a clean pile , but I was mistaken . |
| 5 | I should have enjoyed it just as well if I 'd picked it up in a bookshop , by an unknown author . |
| 6 | Armed with this information , they would n't have picked him out on an identity parade . |
| 7 | Well we were going to buy er a caravan when my wa er just , just before my husband died we were sort of looking for a caravan , we had gone and paid a deposit , we should have picked it up on a Saturday and he go , he died on a Friday , so I had to cancel and er only this week er I told you did n't I , that they paid my deposit back because it was genuine tragedy , I , I did n't sort of er made it up that I , you know , sometimes you 've paid a deposit and then you 've changed your mind |
| 8 | Well I 'll check in case I might have picked it up with my school stuff , to be honest |
| 9 | ‘ I could quite easily have picked it up for you . |
| 10 | I 'm glad to see the two hundred thousand , though I would have picked it up under , erm , children already erm , over the age of about five , but maybe I 've got that wrong . |
| 11 | He must have picked it up from among the sawn logs in store for fuel . |
| 12 | Whoever had brought her here must have known the place ; you could n't have picked it out in a hurry . |
| 13 | You 've had yours a long t a minute ago cos I 've picked it up for somebody else . |
| 14 | He had said hardly anything since we had picked him up at a draughty street corner where the Hanko road leaves Helsinki . |
| 15 | Yanto had picked him up from his home ten minutes before , and they were now racing down the A38 towards Bristol on their first outing on the bike . |
| 16 | In his summing-up , Mr Justice Leonard said the case against Kearney hinged on his identification by Mr Lewin , who had picked him out at an identity parade . |
| 17 | He got his way in most things , had despotically guided Stephen 's life , had chosen Lyn for him , before that had picked him out of this school , pushed him into that , as soon as he could removed him altogether from academic threat . |
| 18 | The teacher claimed that the boy put the forceps in his hand , but the pupil said Mr Harrison had picked them up from a desk . |
| 19 | Ruth had felt it from the moment he had picked her up at the hotel and once again they had headed for the Cartuja site of the Expo . |
| 20 | He had picked her up of intent , had followed her into this inn for some purpose of his own . |
| 21 | They had acquired Isvik at a knock-down figure , spent about the same again completing the fitting of her out to their requirements , and Iain Ward had picked her up for not much more than they had originally paid for her . |
| 22 | It was a crisp Saturday morning in February , and the young man had picked her up from her flat and was driving them to a motor-racing track in the heart of Surrey . |
| 23 | Ward 's payment was agreed with Saunders ‘ a man who had huge authority in that company because he had picked it up by the scruff of the neck and transformed it . ’ |
| 24 | Perhaps the man had picked it up in West Cameroun . |
| 25 | ‘ Actually , there 's quite a good exchange on those lines in Catch-22 , the movie — much underrated film — which is n't in the book , so Buck Henry must have written it , where Nately 's been killed and Yossarian 's been to Milo 's whorehouse to see Nately 's whore and Milo 's picked him up in the half-track and he 's saying Nately died a rich man ; he had such-and-such a number of shares in M&M enterprises , and Yossarian says — ’ |
| 26 | I offer my congratulations to the workers and management of Yarrow , who have picked themselves up after the bitter disappointment of losing the last order , despite having built the first of class and many of the subsequent ships . |
| 27 | Cambridge have picked themselves up in recent weeks . |
| 28 | If you 've got an unknown author there is no way somebody is going to buy that book unless they have picked it up off the shelf . |