Example sentences of "have pick a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could n't have picked a better place : laid to rest in Père Lachaise alongside such genuine nineteenth-century bohos as Gérard de Nerval , who took his pet lobster for walks in the Palais Royal and eventually hanged himself with a piece of string he insisted was the Queen of Sheba 's garter . |
| 2 | QUEEN OF SHANNON had tears and not champagne flowing by winning at Salisbury yesterday — but she could not have picked a better moment . |
| 3 | If he were going to humiliate her , he could not have picked a better opportunity . |
| 4 | He started up twenty years ago , he could not have picked a better time . |
| 5 | This , after all , was no ordinary case of murder and they could scarcely have picked a worse example to further their cause . |
| 6 | ‘ Should have picked a quieter place to meet , ’ he chuckles . |