Example sentences of "[pers pn] had picked [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had picked up a bit of surgery from him , of course , so here I am . |
| 2 | I had picked up a box of letters and was glancing at them , when Frankenstein returned from above and caught me . |
| 3 | It was clear that she had picked up a lot from the Prince 's own style , especially the self-deprecating wit . |
| 4 | So Katie made the following comment shortly after she had picked up a card showing Mitch from Baywatch : |
| 5 | The couple were taken to police headquarters for questioning where they admitted they had picked up a man on the night of 10 July by the harbour but did not know him and had only given him a lift into town . |
| 6 | And finally two Ayr police officers said that a shelved 1969 report showed they had picked up a man ‘ of slight build and a Glasgow accent who said his name was McGuigan or McGuinness ’ some 600 yards from the Ross bungalow in the early hours of the morning of the murder and dropped him at the bus station ; and they now declared from photographs recently shown to them that the man was William McGuinness . |
| 7 | He had picked up a fare in the City — an army deserter called Percy Toplis , who asked to be driven to Basingstoke . |
| 8 | His reputation as a hard man — he had picked up a conviction for GBH — had won him work on the bouncer circuit and the title ‘ King of the Bouncers ’ . |
| 9 | The 26-year-old striker later claimed he had picked up a groin injury but then breached club regulations and widened the rift with Wilkinson by failing to turn up for training or treatment on Monday and Tuesday . |
| 10 | He had picked up a group of experienced hunter-killers from the Phoenix NoGo , and turned them loose on the remaining sandrats . |
| 11 | He had picked up a book and was standing there , reading it with great concentration — just as if he were in his own armchair at home . |