Example sentences of "pick [pron] up [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm , so I could n't carry the wallpaper so the lass says well you ca n't carry it , she says I 'll phone you a taxi , I says okay , so she phoned this , she says any , any particular one , I says I 'll have that one beside us like so phoned association , they 'll be erm , you , you know call up and they came and er pick me up and brought us back with the paper , he charged one pound twenty and I 'm saying to myself one pound twenty , that 's a damn disgrace , by hell I 'll not get that taxi again |
| 2 | And I have cleaned round him , but you know , as quick as I pick them up and throw them in the corner , he gets them out again . |
| 3 | when when you do that , and obviously the need to gauge the erm presentation against audience contact to see that they 're involved and they 're obviously understanding what you 're saying and pick them up and grab them . |
| 4 | The blast had picked her up and dropped her a couple of metres along the ridge . |
| 5 | Things happened as they must have happened , only in fact it was Rufus who had picked her up and brought her back to Wyvis Hall . |
| 6 | Just a frail little thing , was n't she , the wind could have picked her up and tossed her away , yet she had demolished him as surely as if she had wielded a pick-axe handle to his belly . |
| 7 | If he 'd picked her up and laid her on the bed and taken her with all the passion and strength his virile body was promising her at that moment , she would n't have raised a finger to stop him , so when he swung her around in his arms and deposited her nearer to the bathroom door before removing his arms from her she was left gasping with surprise and a sinking feeling of disappointment mixed with humiliation which shook her with its intensity . |
| 8 | He had picked her up and carried her from the flames . |
| 9 | One of you has picked it up and put it in your pocket ’ ! |
| 10 | What if you camp on to somebody and then their phone becomes free , and this starts ringing , and by the time you 've picked it up and answered it , they 've made another outgoing call , so they 're busy a second time ? |
| 11 | They can be observed flitting across the pit as they attempt to swim , with the parent picking them up and spitting them back into the quivering mass . |
| 12 | They are potentially very dangerous and what we are worried about is members of the public picking them up and taking them home as souvenirs . ’ |
| 13 | Frau Hoflin took one look at her and refrained from asking her to pick them up and put them in the washing machine . |
| 14 | ‘ My impulse was to pick them up and hug them , but they are so frail I was afraid they would break . |
| 15 | , so he left it all open and I kept finding rolled up socks and of course there 's in the bottom of the airing cupboard where the tank is , and to pick them up and give them a shake and put them back again . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm trying to control a wild urge to pick you up and carry you to my bedroom . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ So many times I 've just wanted to pick him up and take him home . |
| 19 | And I also said that Dr Kemp had n't turned up at the railway station when they 'd arranged for a taxi to pick him up and take him — ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The creche staff did a fine job of picking her up and delivering her back to our chalet , so by the second week we decided to take her skiing with us . |
| 22 | He 'd offered to pick her up and drive her out here . |
| 23 | And then , the following Monday I 'd like to talk to you if you can to pick her up and take her home . |
| 24 | Even so , though , since she still did n't want Travis 's car outside when he came to pick her up and bring her back , she added , ‘ I 'll come in my car — where shall I meet you ? ’ |
| 25 | Cos I remember , I remember picking it up and reading it , I was out in the garden at the time . |
| 26 | And after several attempts to break the shell open by picking it up and dropping it onto the rocks , well that did n't work , so the bird picked it up and then from a about a height of twenty feet it dropped it onto the rocks below . |
| 27 | Yeah , this guy comes home from work and his wife 's got the chair and she 's picking it up and taking it around like this |
| 28 | ‘ This is for you , ’ he said , picking it up and offering it to her . |
| 29 | When a worker , coming out of the nest , sees the corpse , its instinct is to pick it up and remove it , for that is part of its regular nest-cleaning duties . |
| 30 | Joan : One day , my mum hates birds , right , so my cat , um , um , killed one and brought it indoors and my mum screamed and my da — my brother had to pick it up and take it outside . |