Example sentences of "picked [adv prt] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his anger and frustration , he picked up a long , curved clothes brush and banged it down hard on the surface of the table . |
| 2 | The Bishop picked up a long thin parchment-knife and balanced it in a vein-streaked , brown-spotted hand . |
| 3 | Then the old man picked up a long piece of wood . |
| 4 | He picked up a long knife . |
| 5 | He opened this and , from the darkness , picked up a long , narrow ladder , the type soldiers climb when scaling a castle wall , or a tiler might use when working on the roof of a house . |
| 6 | Then he picked up a long poker from the fireplace and had it like a rifle when he played the tape again . |