Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] pick [pron] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to pick him up and that 's when I burnt myself . |
| 2 | Well yes I know I tried to pick her up |
| 3 | So when I 'd picked myself up from the floor , my arm bruised from shoulder to wrist , I thought ‘ I 'll show the buggers . ’ |
| 4 | I should have enjoyed it just as well if I 'd picked it up in a bookshop , by an unknown author . |
| 5 | I thought I 'd picked it up off a clean pile , but I was mistaken . |
| 6 | At first I thought it was a handkerchief , but when I stooped to pick it up I saw it was a cream-coloured glove ; and of all gloves , an elbow-length woman 's glove . |
| 7 | Lisabeth and Fenella were waiting on the pavement outside the Spring Onion when I arrived to pick them up . |
| 8 | I meant to pick it up . |
| 9 | So I well I sent him er our sheets , er sheet about the group and the minutes and er I contacted Michael er , who said he 'll be very happy to help in , so I er phoned up this chap and said , gave him Michael 's number and said erm he 'd like to come to this meeting tonight , he said yes , so I went to pick him up and I just could n't find that blinking house , anyone who knows Harlow , he 's in Parsonage Leys , I just could n't find the number it was , I just could n't find anything less than thirty seven |
| 10 | I went to pick them up at D'Amicos at eight . |
| 11 | It were one o'clock Monday I went to pick her up . |
| 12 | So I stood by the vice for quite a time and then I went to pick something up , turned round , told you , you do that you 'll do nothing else . |
| 13 | ‘ I left my calculator , I told you ; I went to pick it up . ’ |
| 14 | No , I did pick it up . |
| 15 | David used to get drunk and on many occasions I had to pick him up and carry him home from London , absolutely pissed out of his brain . |
| 16 | So they had me as continuity and I got the job and it was a bit of a struggle because I 'd always been traffic , traffic at work but this was a little bit different in that if you had to do more accountancy and I had to pick it up . |
| 17 | I had picked her up first , before going to the salon . |
| 18 | Even if somebody had picked it up , maybe they had done so by mistake . |
| 19 | This was the creature which had picked him up and flown with him . |
| 20 | Did you got to pick him up or did |
| 21 | She bent to pick it up , but his voice arrested her . |
| 22 | Her foot nudged the discarded arrow and , unthinkingly , she bent to pick it up . |
| 23 | She dropped her clutch bag and George frowned as she strained to pick it up . |
| 24 | She wondered where she 'd picked it up , and who was missing it . |
| 25 | He was a young Irish American who 'd picked her up in a New York bar a week ago . |
| 26 | She came to pick me up . |
| 27 | And I said yes okay when she came to pick it up |
| 28 | They fell on the boards at her feet and she rushed to pick them up . |
| 29 | She 'd just get a bash across the mouth if you kept picking me up . |
| 30 | If the letter had been burnt in the presence of all the members of the family immediately after being read , then the copy could only have been sent to him before they received it , by the person who went to pick it up from the rubbish skip . |