Example sentences of "[pron] picked up the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I picked up The New Principles of Gardening , a leather-bound tome by Batty Langley ( d. 1751 ) and wondered when she would have been b . |
| 2 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 3 | I picked up the nearest coil and began to gather it up , but whereas in the summer heat the pipe had been soft and flexible , it now had the consistency of a steel cable and was like trying to lift a bedframe designed by Salvador Dali . |
| 4 | I picked up the empty bread wrapper . |
| 5 | I picked up the crumpled cheque and spread it out , looking at it with the sort of hopeless hunger with which one admires things in the window of Fortnum & Mason . |
| 6 | I says that 's got ta be Warren , it could n't be anybody else , so when I come down I went off like , well I tell ya I ca n't do it , so I knew it was so I picked up the wrong she says oh I 'm just ringing because you can see what the weather is she says and you could n't go and do a day in erm , with your |
| 7 | She picked up the second carrier bag and saw me to the door with it . |
| 8 | She picked up The Cheaper Sex with the tips of her bony , scarlet-nailed fingers . |
| 9 | As she went she picked up the expensive bottle of wine . |
| 10 | Then she picked up the tall glass she had carried down with her , and which was now empty , walked sedately to the water 's edge , filled it with ice-cold water and returned to see that he had not shifted . |
| 11 | She picked up the ginger kitten and held it cradled in the curve of her neck . |
| 12 | That should shake the audience to attention , she thought , as she picked up the first book . |
| 13 | She picked up the first box of jars and went back to the room . |
| 14 | When one cooled she picked up the other and spat to test it . |
| 15 | She picked up the two copies reluctantly , as though with tongs , and looked back across the desk at him defiantly . |
| 16 | Then she picked up the dirty washing and went to the door . |
| 17 | She picked up the warm , milky-smelling cocoon and crooned reassurance . |
| 18 | She picked up the sheet-white leg of her murdered boy and warmed it by the fire . |
| 19 | Her back still turned to him , she picked up the white plastic basket and began to hastily retrace her steps towards the cottage — and she heard him laugh . |
| 20 | She picked up The Social Aspects of Illness . |
| 21 | There were three letters and an electricity bill addressed to Mrs Emma Funnell , three circulars and — she picked up the last envelope — a cheap blue paper one and addressed to herself , not as Mrs Margaret Jones , but Mrs Peggy Jones . |
| 22 | She picked up the unfamiliar word , relieved to be discussing impersonal things once more . |
| 23 | She picked up the unfamiliar phone clumsily and by mistake depressed the re-dial key . |
| 24 | In windy conditions , Tracy , who picked up the Irish Ladies title at Lough Erne last month , completed the 10. mile course in five hours and minutes . |
| 25 | It 's another outrageous stroke by Forest boss Brian Clough , who picked up the stocky striker after he was handed a free transfer by West Bromwich . |
| 26 | He drove in silence after that , leaving me alone with my chaotic thoughts , and at the end of the long straight slash across the side of the cloud-hidden mountain , we picked up the new road again , swinging right , away from the Jequetepeque . |
| 27 | So he looked at Matron , tight-faced and armored in starch , at Miss Guttner sitting lumpishly beyond her , her glasses shining blankly as they picked up the overhead light that filled the room with a necessary illumination against the heaviness of the sky pressing grayly against the windows . |
| 28 | Showing that their displays are appropriate for all types of buildings they picked up the third prize for their display at the Marriott Hotel also in Dyce . |
| 29 | The British Lions were amused to read of the plight of referee Steve McNally when they picked up the local paper in Paihia before the first match of their New Zealand tour . |
| 30 | He picked up the dry droppings and crumbled them in his hand . |