Example sentences of "he had pick [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had picked up the pieces after the war and it must have come as a total shock to someone with his background to find players in his side who rocked the boat . |
| 2 | He had picked up the Bren gun and was gazing to the left of the wood and pointing the gun in the same direction . |
| 3 | As mail boy , he had picked up the habit of addressing everyone by their Christian name , whoever they were . |
| 4 | It was because Mrs Strawson was five minutes late — behaviour he made no demur at , though he would have refused to see a National Health patient who failed to turn up on time — that he had picked up the Standard and seen that paragraph . |
| 5 | Poshekhonov said that he had found the way to laugh , he had picked up the spear of ridicule . |
| 6 | He had picked up the phone and was asking Celia to show their visitor up , James Morris glanced disdainfully at the new manager . |
| 7 | A lift of his hand and then he had picked up the reins and , with a quick dig of his heels , went straight into a canter . |
| 8 | Earlier , avoiding Matey 's compressed lips , he had picked up the whisky bottle and reached for a glass — anything , so long as he achieved oblivion , surcease from pain — and then he had heard her voice again , in the corridor at the church hall , mockingly telling him to retreat to it . |
| 9 | He had picked up the phrase from his teenage secretary . |
| 10 | He said he had never seen the drugs before , claiming he had picked up the syringe after seeing it lying around before the party . |
| 11 | He had picked out the only Georgian-born individual purely on the strength of his personal feelings . |