Example sentences of "pick him up " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And if they have picked him up he 'll be in custody . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 — ’ |
| 4 | He had said hardly anything since we had picked him up at a draughty street corner where the Hanko road leaves Helsinki . |
| 5 | This was the creature which had picked him up and flown with him . |
| 6 | ‘ They did n't know we 'd picked him up and I did n't tell them . |
| 7 | Now we should have picked him up . |
| 8 | Jennie then asked Katharine to come across the half diagonal in a nice , steady canter , and to imagine ‘ picking him up and putting him down again on the other leg . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Ad enuff have you , boy ? ’ he said picking him up and with that he gave them all a brisk wave and disappeared down the steps , closing the hatch quickly behind him . |
| 10 | I 'm picking him up after lunch . ’ |
| 11 | Picking him up , Roy felt the terror slowly leave his own body . |
| 12 | Then there was the ship 's agent who made a run for it in his car , guessing we would search his house after picking him up with some uncustomed goods . |
| 13 | Not only had he managed to manipulate her into going with him to Conway House but also into picking him up from his home and taking him there as well ! |
| 14 | ‘ But what were you doing picking him up ? ’ |
| 15 | picking him up , taking him , bringing him from Sunderland er , when he wants him he just phones him up , can you come up with now , and he 's a bloody driver you know and er |
| 16 | Why why is your dad picking him up ? |
| 17 | We 've got a very good set up erm my mechanic Mick Day is coming back again tomorrow ; I 'm picking him up from the airport , so that 'll be three years with him and erm I can rely on him to sort of get things ready and erm you know , we 've got a great set up and really I can just concentrate on trying to be erm world speedway champion this year . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He had sensed that Ali would be quite low when the day was over , and he wanted something to pick him up . |
| 20 | Your Ma went to pick him up this morning . ’ |
| 21 | Mrs Shirley Hayden , headteacher of Our Lady 's school in nearby Crowthorne , Berks , said : ‘ Oliver had been waiting for his mother to pick him up as usual at 3.15pm . |
| 22 | I must go now to pick him up from school . ’ |
| 23 | He had forgotten all about arranging for a taxi to pick him up or looking up bus times or anything like that . |
| 24 | She had been asked to pick him up at eight thirty a.m. outside his billet at a nearby farmhouse and drive him to Bovington Camp in Dorset . |
| 25 | This consisted of enrolling one 's child in a private playschool , which sent a car to pick him up in the morning and deposit him back on his own doorstep in the late afternoon . |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | I mean I ca n't get my hands covered with flour and egg and stuff if he 's going to cry and I 've got to pick him up , can I ? |
| 28 | ‘ So many times I 've just wanted to pick him up and take him home . |
| 29 | The emergency plan was for Giles , fingers crossed , to take the tube from Heathrow to Hammersmith , where we 'd be waiting to pick him up . |
| 30 | He trod water as the ketch sailed away from him , and raised a hand so that his crew could see him and sail back to pick him up . |