Example sentences of "[vb past] picked up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw him when we got picked up off the I mean it was half a lifeboat we were left sitting on . |
| 2 | Martin Jackson sat among the people waiting by the arrivals gate and read a journal he 'd picked up at the news-stand . |
| 3 | Horowitz nodded as he followed Hendrix out of the cabin , carrying the case he 'd picked up from the Frankfurt villa in one hand , his executive case in the other . |
| 4 | Donna sat in the sitting-room , glancing endlessly at the sheets of paper they 'd picked up from the bank that day and also at the notes Ward had left . |
| 5 | As I looked at her , I thought of her shrinking , like someone in a fairytale , and how one day I might hold her in the palm of my hand with her little voice squeaking commands at me as if she was a mouse I 'd picked up in the garden . |
| 6 | A year later , she finished up in hospital , sick and disillusioned , rejected by the so-called friends she had picked up along the way . |
| 7 | He passed me a map and a brochure he had picked up at the hotel . |
| 8 | Later , much later , he put the book down , and the cuttings which he had picked up at the end of his reading . |
| 9 | I made my way to an hotel lounge in the Diamond , where I sat and read a leaflet I had picked up in the church . |
| 10 | Since a few ladies who had been at the tea would also be at the committee meeting , and , anyway , Boyd had messed up her best black afternoon dress , she wore now a pretty gown in green wool which she had picked up in the last sale at Eaton 's . |
| 11 | This time it was fish and chips which Mrs Wormwood had picked up in the fish and chip shop on her way home from bingo . |
| 12 | He relished hearing the stories that Orton told of masturbatory sessions in public lavatories , of men he had picked up in the street , of having sex in shop doorways , of the sizes of his acquaintances ' organs and of his experiences with venereal disease . |
| 13 | Ludens had picked up from the floor a sketch , acrylic on paper , representing ( perhaps ) a pale human figure emerging from a dark marsh or river . |
| 14 | Sleep covered me like an eiderdown which some invisible nurse had picked up from the floor and put back on the bed . |
| 15 | Holding the red Conway Stewart pen she had picked up from the grass , she went over the scene again and again . |
| 16 | The fragment of the Quimper dish she had picked up from the dustpan on the kitchen floor that day when she and Thérèse had seen , when she saw , when the lady had shown herself for the second time . |
| 17 | He rang back again at once and mistakenly carried on with the Airds ' answering service , not realizing that the woman there had picked up by the time I got to the phone . |