Manuel Dallan picked up the ball after Canada fluffed a scrum and popped it to the number eight to bundle his way over the line. |
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Despite all these many billions spent on health and 5 years of private cover, I've picked up a bit of sniffle. |
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I picked up all my books and notebooks in a daze, and was nearly out of the classroom when I felt a tug on my sleeve. |
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But during his trial, he claimed after he picked up the young woman she made advances to him. |
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I do not know whether any members have picked up off the table his amendment in hastily scrawled handwriting. |
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From Lippershey, Galileo picked up the idea of building a telescope for astronomical research. |
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I picked up the ball and pitched as hard as I could, beaning her square in the forehead. |
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This cut the defenders off from each other, since they were not allowed to use radios in case their messages were picked up by the enemy. |
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The student has picked up a mannerism or trick, perhaps from a film or pop source, whose real origin is Schoenberg or Messiaen. |
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She picked up her make up bag and left the wash room, heading to the bedroom she shared with her best friend. |
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The first time I got the nerve to call a guy, when he picked up I was so nervous that I squeaked into the phone. |
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He said the two were playing when the accused boy picked up the stone and hit his friend in the stomach. |
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Soon after a brokerage house picked up coverage on the company, the broker's bankers approached the treasurer with a new financing vehicle. |
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Marty had bent down and picked up my books and handed them back to me without a word. |
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Finally, the attendant picked up the pacifier, attached it to a ribbon, and sewed it to the child's shirt. |
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So what assumptions have many people here picked up in their childhood and adolescence? |
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He picked up the can of Lysol that was sitting next to him and sprayed the area as best as he could. |
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Quickly and quietly, he lifted himself out of the pool, picked up the bucket and filled it with pool water. |
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I'd picked up that he was an expert sailor of dinghies and had twice won something called the Prince of Wales Cup. |
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Nicabar declared sarcastically as he pushed his coffee aside and picked up a half full bottle of alcohol. |
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And where we spent the resources and we talked to Hispanics, we picked up the Hispanic vote. |
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He picked up the fool's gun and cocked it in the direction of the children. |
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Avery picked up her books and turned around to face a strongly built figure towering over her. |
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Doreen picked up her knitting once more, the needles flashing in the lamplight and clicking rhythmically. |
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The team also picked up five silver and three bronze team medals at the event. |
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It is believed that they have picked up metals blown off the bombing range by the strong easterly winds that regularly blow across the island. |
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I took a seat at the front, and picked up my piece of paper that listed all the wines we were going to taste. |
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When she had finished, Rebekah picked up the empty wicker basket and turned to go inside. |
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He's one of the greatest sportsmen that ever picked up a mallet or a cricket bat. |
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Having picked up new skills, after a fashion, I'm keen to employ them on a proper mountain tour. |
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He called me up a few days ago, however, to confess he got drunk, picked up a woman in a bar, took her home, and was intimate with her. |
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He bent down and picked up my traveler's pouch, fishing one of my beeswax candles from it. |
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I picked up my books, shoving my papers back into the file, and walked out of the bathroom, acting as if nothing had happened. |
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The medium seems to serve as a way to say just about anything and have the message picked up by the media. |
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He was picked up by the touring cars championship and his elevation to the full factory squad this year has released his talent. |
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Weathering the storm, Windermere then picked up the pace and gave Workington a taste of their own medicine. |
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Having picked up the sport just three years ago herself, Barling stresses that the club welcomes people of all ages and skill levels. |
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Abi yelled into the phone, hung up, picked up the phone and redialed Sarah's number. |
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She picked up the fine blossom and began to read the words written in perfect flowing calligraphy. |
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A middle-class boy from the suburbs would have picked up a camera at art school, but Jobson took two decades to find his metier. |
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In contrast, growth of business activity across the UK private sector as a whole picked up slightly to a strong pace. |
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The swimmer also picked up merits in the 4 x 50m freestyle and the 50m backstroke as he was credited with a 4th and 5th placing in the events. |
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He slid out of bed into the darkness and picked up his cellphone, watching the numbers on the clock tick. |
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The broadsheets and music press picked up on them first, with the tabloids following. |
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Here are our new arrivals, the 3 Tamworth boar weaners we picked up from Dumfries today. |
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We picked up horse chestnuts on the corner for the feel and look of them, and then gathered acorns and hazelnuts and beechnuts in the woods. |
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There were quite a few times this month when it looked like summer was coming to an end as the winds picked up and blew williwaws across the bay. |
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He picked up a rook and moved it forward three squares, capturing a knight, and exposing the king. |
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His sharp ears picked up the gentle, almost inaudible rustle of her skirt and the faint clink of her light plate armor. |
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Modern and contemporary designs are picked up by working women for daily wear. |
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I picked up Toole's book because, thumbing through it, I'd read a paragraph that rang with truth as I had come to know it with Muhammad Ali. |
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He must have been alone because he picked up the receiver at the first ring. |
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Like Aalam, a Bihari who speaks Hindi with a smattering of Malayalam picked up from his extended stay here. |
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He picked up an item from the shop and agreed to pay its price to the shopkeeper. |
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The radars picked up and tracked the pieces of the shuttle as they fell to Earth. |
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He was with me while we walked along railway tracks and picked up empty cigarette packets, which I collected. |
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Cans, plastic, glass and textiles will go in the boxes, which will be picked up by a van and manually sorted at the kerbside. |
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The aggregate amount of loans also picked up drastically, from 7.3 billion leva to 11.1 billion leva. |
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Instead I picked up a sandwich and cycled through Yoyogi Park, whooshing through the drifts of orange-brown leaves. |
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Obviously injuries may be picked up in their Boxing Day game against Portsmouth, so keep one eye on that match. |
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Last night I went in and picked up some books and the windows were all steamed up. |
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I picked up her hand, guessed at what might have been the injured finger, and kissed it better. |
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She glared back at him and then picked up her bag and moved one seat down, plumping her bag on the seat between them. |
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A natural mesomorph, Huh weighed 200 pounds before he even picked up a barbell in earnest and his body responded well to weights. |
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An orbiting satellite picked up a distress signal from the ship's emergency beacon, standard equipment on all modern boats. |
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Anastasia set the picture down on her nightstand and picked up her shoulder bag that was covered with patches of bands she liked. |
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Fast airwaves, like those created by cymbals, are not going to be picked up as much by the speaker as the low end of the kick drum. |
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A breeze that picked up during the morning was responsible for several capsizes but did help to produce some exciting racing. |
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The sports that I picked up were football, softball, kickball and basketball. |
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My poor father picked up the call literally falling off the bed, and I sprang up in perfect state of lucidness. |
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He picked up a bar of gold in his hands and, turning it over, discovered a tiny crown chiseled into one of the corners. |
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She picked up platinum awards representing sales of more than a million for each of her four Harry Potter books. |
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Fay bounced up the stairs to try on the tailor-made pink frock-coat he'd picked up that day. |
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After arriving at the golf course, and entering the clubhouse, they picked up a scorecard for each of them. |
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That spooked the horse because his head and ears picked up and he let out a shrill whinny. |
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She picked up her pen, finished addressing the envelope in front of her and added it to the pile of invitations to be sent out. |
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The vocals sounded great and picked up all the raspiness and highs in her voice. |
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At that point the sensitive hound ears picked up another presence and he bounded over to greet me. |
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Along the way she picked up a confidence and self-possession that will serve her well. |
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He taught himself to play a bit by ear, amused the rowdy crowds, and picked up small change. |
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It was very quiet as the wind picked up through the trees, caressing our faces ever so gently. |
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He picked up a twig from the ground and scraped the dirt off his boots before stepping into a small scullery and calling out. |
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Her nose picked up the scent of blood, even before she saw the growing puddle in the dim light of the hold. |
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In some markets, weeklies or monthlies picked up the comic after dailies dropped it. |
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Since then, we have regretfully picked up our beach towels and coolers and headed back to the cosmic parking lot. |
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He picked up speed and dashed through the ever-increasing crosswinds of sand. |
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She picked up her sketch pad and began sketching the sunset outside the window. |
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Once Saki broke through the atmosphere, the ship's radar picked up an approaching craft. |
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The old girl stopped doing the jitterbug and picked up a lively waltz instead. |
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Josh picked up his pace and jogged across the park and short expanse of field to the metal dugouts. |
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I ollied up onto the sidewalk, picked up my board, and dashed madly into the school. |
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Before going to their house, we stopped at the dog groomers and picked up their adorable Yorkie named Rusty. |
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I picked up the brown leather billfold and threw it at him, landing neatly in his hand. |
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Hunter picked up a pebble and dropped it over the edge of the cliff, watching it fall to the ocean. |
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He has picked up the latest version of the anatomy of GAA positions, but I have only room left to deal with the first line of defence this week. |
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He picked up the beer and handed it to the man before turning and making his way down the corridor. |
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Somewhere he had picked up a pair of black gloves with the fingers cut out and had taken a liking to them. |
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He heaved in another deep breath, exhaled shakily, and picked up the card with somewhat senseless fingers. |
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I picked up my phone and had a slew of nasty BBMs from him saying I broke his heart. |
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Sneakily, I listened in to Heathrow's air traffic control on an old digital airband radio I picked up a couple of years back. |
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He picked up his regular meal, toast, wheat-cereal with milk and made his way to a table to eat. |
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Growing up bilingual in English and German, Hobsbawm picked up three or four other languages along the way. |
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With a glance in the rear-view, the driver pulled onto the road and picked up speed. |
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So it was with great reluctance that I picked up this album and put it into my car stereo. |
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His nose picked up no scent of a living body, only that of blood, corpses, soot, and other chaos. |
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I picked up the red t-shirt off the carpet and handed it to him, watching as he slipped it over his head. |
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She picked up the blue mug with TUESDAY written on the side and took a sip of lukewarm coffee. |
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Each day of the players' holiday week, Maloney threw on his training gear, picked up a sack of footballs and made his way up to Barrowfield. |
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Sneakily, I listened in to Heathrow's air traffic control on an old digital airband radio I picked up a coupla years back. |
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He picked up the ball on the edge of the area, shimmied and passed the ball into the six-yard box. |
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He reached forward with one huge arm and picked up a large tankard of some drink, sloshing amber liquid on the table. |
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Matt moved to the front of the car and picked up the hood to unleash another huge cloud of white steam. |
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Once safely inside the telephone booth, he picked up the phone and began dialing his mother's number. |
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I sprayed my favourite scent on my neck, checked my face in the mirror and brushed out my hair, then picked up my bag. |
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First, in viewing the taped segments afterward, the board picked up details about candidates that they'd missed during the live interview. |
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Commercial shipping has picked up after a quieter January with a steady flow of ships delivering in the port. |
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She picked up a plate and dished up food from the platters that Aidan had set on the blue tile covered buffet in the center of the kitchen. |
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From the age of six, when he first picked up a guitar he dreamed of being a star, and now that dream could well be realised. |
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They were picked up too, and brought into hangars by metal claws on strong wires. |
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The faction of Moscow loyalists essentially waited and picked up the pieces of the shattered organization. |
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Their activity picked up and they began putting explosives into bags and readying their weapons. |
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He got some relief from a homoeopathic remedy he picked up at Tullivers herbs and wholefood shop in Colliergate, York. |
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Shrieking with simulated frustration, Clarkson flew into a bate, picked up a hammer and smashed his desktop to smithereens. |
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Her ears picked up the sound of a soft rustle, and then beneath it, the quiet steady thudding of cushioned weight hitting the ground. |
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If Jesus related His Passion in this way, it would certainly explain how the disciples picked up that practice! |
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After I was done I picked up the cup and took a good hard look at the mixture of herbs I had batched up. |
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His common-law marriage broke up in 2000 when his wife picked up an old cocaine habit. |
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The former cricket umpire had previously been picked up once every three months by ambulance for check-ups at the hospital. |
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I picked up my hairbrush from the stack on the sink and brushed my hair slowly, watching the movements or my arm in the mirror. |
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I opened my notebook and picked up my favourite black pen, and tapped the cap against my teeth, thinking about what I wanted to write. |
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I don't know if she accidentally picked up the phone or deliberately did that. |
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Who picked up two Bafta awards for best sitcom and best comedy performance? |
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He bent down and picked up the large wooden cradle without any effort and followed Christina to her room. |
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Despite being wounded repeatedly, he pressed the attack, and after his.45 ammo was exhausted, he picked up a rifle and bayoneted several enemy. |
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She jumped on the bed like before and laid on her back, picked up the phone, and hit redial. |
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I snapped out of it, and picked up the old fashioned telephone to call my sister. |
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Their cheeks picked up any shifts in the wind, determining which angles in the mountain would be covered in deeper, windblown snow. |
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His ears began to twitch when they picked up the sound of a soft moan coming from within the rubble. |
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When I called the number on the company's website, the CEO picked up the phone. |
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Sobering somewhat, thinking of everything that Mister Black had told him, Kyle picked up the phone and hit redial. |
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I picked up the car this afternoon, and they told me the windscreen wiper motor had shorted. |
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Mourinho's father Felix picked up the receiver and spoke quietly during a short conversation. |
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We picked up our pace as the thudding of heavy boots hitting the pavement reached our ears. |
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As I have been so many times, and have a lot of Thai friends, I have picked up quite a bit of the Thai language. |
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Nadeem picked up a cloth from the dashboard and wiped the windshield, but the mist was on the outside of the glass. |
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At the touch of a button one of the blank monitors blipped to life, displaying a scene that was being picked up by a hidden remote camera. |
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He picked up the accumulated scrap rails and switch material on his way in during the fall. |
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And Channel 5 has picked up Angel for the UK season 3 starts in June, woot! |
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Four minutes later Meehan picked up a loose ball and hammered a scorcher into the top corner. |
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I took my hair out of the ponytail and picked up the pink hairbrush lying on the sink. |
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The last known fact about her life is that she was picked up by a man from the Biltmore hotel. |
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Now that his show has been suspended, unemployed Chris has picked up his cutlass and is looking for a work. |
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There are younger players, like Owen, who have picked up the baton, and England still have other good strikers. |
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She picked up her brown hairbrush and went to brush her hair in front of the round mirror hanging on her bedroom wall. |
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Anyway, today I picked up some Passion fruit juice so I could make the Demerara cocktail. |
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Anyway, after work I wandered down a lovely road in a studenty part of town and picked up some food and some wine. |
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It is also unclear if warnings or cautions were picked up as well as convictions. |
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I picked up the noisy clock, scowling at it with my half opened eyes, and shook my head. |
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The fact that he picked up votes right across the constituency and across the political divide is testimony to his popularity. |
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Mala groaned, picked up her bedroll, and moved to where their horses were tethered. |
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Sean pitched his drink down on the bar table and picked up the triangle to racket the balls. |
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I stood in front of my mirror, picked up my hairbrush, and started brushing my long, black hair. |
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Jac picked up a fork and poked at the greens, making a wry face and glancing with envy at her plate. |
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But the York trio picked up three shots to level the scores and gain a valuable point. |
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The alternate week refuse collection, which sees household rubbish picked up once a fortnight, was designed with recycling aims in mind. |
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He explains how his art expression began when he picked up a hot poker and burned images into a wood board. |
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We were trawling through surveillance tapes when the call over the radio said they had been picked up outside. |
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Their yellow hue is picked up in the scalloped edges of the stockings, tailored from matelasse pillow shams. |
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In the Best Supporting Actor category, Chris Cooper deservedly picked up the gold statuette for his barnstorming performance in Adaptation. |
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Rules, I'm afraid he's picked up from that obnoxious queenie friend of his. |
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We went to the section where the candles were kept, and I picked up a few black, gold and silver tapers. |
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Vieira picked up his first caution for a hack at van Bommel, who himself was lucky to escape a caution for following through on Campbell. |
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I then stood in for another team leader while she was off, and I picked up everything really quickly. |
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We once picked up what looked like a cake of cheese, about a foot in diameter. |
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Radio too picked up the story, first in editorial commentary and then as a radio drama. |
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She picked up the ladle, and a bowl that was sitting next to it and quietly poured herself some soup. |
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He picked up his cards, finding the ace of diamonds he tossed it on the pile. |
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She picked up the same one as him, and began to eat, trying as hard as she could to be polite and use the manners that her mother had taught her. |
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On autopilot, I picked up my dress with my free hand and began walking with Andrew. |
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In the under-20 women's race, of 128 finishers, she came home in 26th place and picked up a team silver medal in this age group. |
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Lauren ignored him and picked up a whip, lashing him again and again until he opened a wound that went to bone. |
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In this way, we teenagers picked up ballroom, jazz, jive and the frowned upon jitter bugging. |
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I picked up the cards in the same sequence that they do in the casino and used a standard, two pass casino shuffle. |
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I picked up the fake gun and held in a particularly obnoxious woman's face. |
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Petr picked up a coloured fish early in the day, an eleven pounder that fought as though jet-propelled. |
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He picked up his cell phone to call her but thought that he would be waking up the whole house. |
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He picked up and his relaxed mood soon tensed, urgency in his voice as he nodded. |
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This relays a signal which is picked up by mobile phone transmitters along the rail route. |
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Winter winds picked up quickly in the desert causing violent sandstorms every which way. |
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I well remember once at the factory when I picked up a billet of the lead alloy used for the cores and struck it with a hammer. |
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This occurs in guitar amps when the amplified signal is picked up by the sound source, forming a loop. |
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She picked up a robe that was laying across a stool, and slipped it on, after she had dressed in her usual black tank and trousers. |
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I picked up the miscellaneous junk that lay sprawled on the bed and dumped it into the black cloth. |
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I indulged in some very fine Calvados and picked up a Cohiba about seven inches long. |
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Birds chirped, flapping in the swaying trees as the breeze picked up a notch. |
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All but one of the crew were picked up by the Mevagissey lifeboat and landed there. |
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He picked up a sack and a tackle behind the line of scrimmage and batted down a ball at the line. |
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Through the glass door to the step outside, two dozen yellowhammers and sparrows picked up seeds thrown on the snowy concrete. |
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He picked up his comb and began untangling his blonde hair, until it shone in the light and stood in place. |
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My husband laughs at me because I put our children's clothes on the radiator to warm in winter but it is a habit I picked up from my mother. |
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I looked longingly at my breeches, but picked up the next best thing, one of the long kilted skirts I used for riding. |
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The wind has picked up even more and is bashing into the side of my mobile home. |
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He returned the salute as the warship gathered speed, picked up her guard of Police escort launches and headed for the open sea. |
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The legislature has picked up these words and turned them into statutory law. |
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He had picked up a bag full of towels instead of the team's kit-bag when he went to the laundrette. |
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Adam put on some pants and picked up a random shirt from his dirty laundry. |
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He went to his best shopping spots and picked up a grand total of two books, a new cap, a mint flavoured ice cream and a new Bad Religion album. |
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I picked up the trophy with 28 points, and I certainly enjoyed the schooner! |
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He picked up a long ball on the right wing, cut inside and found himself on the byline, a couple of yards from the Monaco post and goalkeeper. |
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He turned the chair to the desk behind him, picked up a whetstone and a knife, and started to sharpen it. |
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Leaflets can be picked up from around the town, including the town hall and the library. |
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As the train picked up speed, we caught the whiff of, well, a rest room in terrible need of cleaning. |
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Despite my misgivings, I picked up a box of these today when I filled the new prescription. |
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Our burgers arrived and I picked up a fry, placed it between my teeth, and wetly sucked the traces of salt and seasoning from my fingers. |
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The actual dinner was fine and the views worthy of all the gushings generated by the copywriter in the brochure we'd picked up earlier that week. |
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Stations there picked up and rebroadcast the analog signals relayed by satellite from the Netherlands. |
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When the lance corporal picked up that machinegun to save the lives of his fellow Marines, he had never fired a machinegun before. |
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He obviously thinks it's time we donned our pith helmets and picked up the white man's burden again. |
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You'll feel weed fall against the line and the lead get picked up by the swell. |
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I picked up the card key for the room my friends and I had rented for that night and headed out. |
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She said Mr Corner's car was parked outside the Lysley Arms on July 3 at about 10 pm, when Mr Maddox picked up a stool from the pub and smashed five windows. |
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She squatted next to the reporter, and picked up a shard of glass. |
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I picked up a strand of his long brown hair, and wound it round my finger. |
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A few hours later, the same vans picked up the guests, decked out in wedding attire, to take them to the fortress castle. |
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Elements from the paintings have been picked up to create a collection of saris and drapes in brocades, georgettes, tissue and jacquard crepe de chine. |
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On the final day, the north-eastern breeze picked up to about force four. |
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She quickly picked up the telephone book, found her number and dialed. |
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I picked up my kitbag and marched aboard the troopship Empire Fowey, bound for Singapore and Malaya, although we did not know this at the time as it was top secret. |
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She picked up a hail of bad words from several of the other drivers. |
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He has picked up a nasty gash on his leg, though, bleeds quite heavily and limps for the best part of the following week, but no pain, no gain, right? |
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He bent down and picked up the still-burning cigarette and took a puff. |
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Sophos picked up an average of fifteen such scareware sites per day during the first half of 2009, a three-fold increase over the same period last year. |
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Other news organizations then picked up on the story, sourcing it back to The Times. |
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That afternoon and for most of the next day, we went in and out, alongside from every direction, picked up buoys, anchored, and entered and left marina berths. |
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He is at the same time bullying and wheedling, but will, when cornered, reiterate the anodyne phrases he picked up on the intensive salesman's course. |
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Fine then, she thought, and she picked up the bottle and broke off the neck, then tipped the golden liquid out into the sink and heard the quick glug, glug of it flowing away. |
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At the highway, Lucius picked up a rhythm of hoofs and fell to his knees behind a shallow berm, thinly screened from the road by a stand of brush. |
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Damien picked up a photograph from the mantelpiece, toying idly with it. |
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Not long after we left the wind picked up and for 18 hours the remaining inhabitants suffered a white-out, something we'd escaped all the time we were there. |
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I picked up Thai basil this week which I cannot grow and a couple of French tarragon plants to replace the ones that the slugs had for lunch one day last week. |
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He, too, picked up his glass of milk and started to drink it. |
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The wind picked up on Sunday putting some whitecaps on some swells off shore and then mother nature unleashed a storm that was very out of character for this time of year. |
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As their teacher rattled off numbers in Chinese, the duo listened, picked up their markers, wrote identical answers on whiteboards and held it up for the audience to see! |
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As the hounds picked up their scent, the howls became snarls. |
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What I picked up were impressions, rather than a firm, detailed analysis. |
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A sensitive microphone placed close to the eardrum typically records a faint hum, but in many human subjects clear whistles can be picked up on top of the background buzz. |
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But other Sunbelt locales, notably Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma have picked up much of the slack. |
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Jason quickly picked up ammo from his dead enemy and reloaded his gun. |
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With that in mind, he picked up his handphone, and began to dial a number. |
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Along the way he also picked up the skills to be an acrobat, a juggler, a wire walker, a trapeze artist, and a clown. |
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It was at this moment, as the young man picked up his carrier bag and headed for the exit, that I realised why I had been graced with such a beatific smile in the first place. |
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When the NOPD left the scene, Zack discreetly picked up the bag of coke and he and Addie headed toward Governor Nicholls. |
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The New Zealand full back starts after missing both pre-season run-outs with a knock to a knee picked up while playing on the Euorpean sevens circuit during the summer. |
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Or maybe you'll find out the beaded handbag you picked up for 2 bucks at a yard sale is way rare and worth, oh, enough to pay your college tuition! |
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On Thursday, they picked up their first European win in five years, taking a slender 1-0 win over Latvian side Ventspils in the first stage of the UEFA Cup. |
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She picked up tongs and began rearranging cookies in the glass display. |
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Yashi absent-mindedly picked up the squeezy bottle of syrup, flipped open the cap, and began piping spiral patterns round the outside of the plate with it. |
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Cyril stooped and picked up a handful of small pebbles and jounced them in his hand to shake away the loose dust, then the resumed their leisurely walk along the track. |
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This year McQueen picked up three Oscars for his third motion picture 12 Years A Slave. |
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Gordon picked up a pair secondhand and began to stencil then onto blank canvases with spray paint. |
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Dennis is too busy thanking God we weren't picked up by an axe murderer. |
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Avery picked up a comb and continued brushing her hair straight. |
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This Haitian Vodou praise exclamation was immediately picked up and repeated by all of the Beninese participants as if it had already become part of Benin's Vodun liturgy. |
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Walking over to her writing area, he picked up a sheet of paper. |
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Robinson picked up the ball almost from a standing start and in the blink of an eye, he rounded six players before scoring between the posts without anyone touching him. |
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So I picked up the Sunday Tribune TV guide and lamped him with it. |
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Walking him over to one of the medical beds she set him on it then went to her computer to study the read-outs that the suit picked up from him during the fight. |
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Then, having taken in wood and water and tallowed the ship, the pirates stood across for the coast of Guinea with a pilot picked up at St. Thomas. |
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But minutes after Colbert picked up a lady friend, they reappeared. |
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The perfect day had vanished not fifteen minutes after they had picked up their gear and headed down the trail, the blue sky replaced by dark thunderclouds. |
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Out of the nine events which were billed for the last day, India picked up four titles and were followed by Sri Lanka and Pakistan who took three and two titles, respectively. |
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As a result, a number of outlets that should know better have picked up the story. |
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Thus the report on the Guy Fawkes effigies, which also was picked up by RT, the English-language Russian satellite channel. |
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I have not yet received any letter from the AAI but I have a notice here to say that there is a registered letter to be picked up at the Post Office and I presume that is it. |
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By the late 1880s electric tramways, which ran on rails and picked up power from overhead cables, were becoming established in the major capitals of Europe. |
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She picked up another green marked soldier searching for a sign of rank. |
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As anybody who picked up a bevy of blue chips during the equity bear market will know, a relatively high yield is a proven indicator of value in financial markets. |
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She picked up a corner of a cyan-blue UNICEF sticker and stuck it over her mouth. |
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With a curt nod, Mike ordered the others to get her ready, picked up a heavy chair as though it were matchwood, and used it to smash out one of the larger panes of glass. |
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I picked up a battery charger and a pack of rechargeable AAA batteries. |
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Following a slow start to the year, recruitment levels in the insurance, assurance and reinsurance industries have picked up significantly this month. |
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Meanwhile, Rathbone picked up a few tips on how to dance reels, how to negotiate her way around country-house bureaucracy and how to reconstruct a walled vegetable garden. |
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Handley JA always appeared with a halo above his head to mark his manifest saintliness, a point picked up with typical understatement in the essay on him. |
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I picked up the message whilst I waited at the pharmacy for my prescription and was instantly overcome with a feeling of guilt, as if I had just stood him up. |
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The film, which was just picked up for distribution by IFC Films and Sony Pictures, also stars Pierce Brosnan and Marisa Tomei. |
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I picked up enough consumables and necessaries to tide us over the next couple of days and resolved to revert to old-fashioned local shopping as soon as I can. |
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You must get lost like everyone else in the covered bazaar and be picked up by a charming tout who will show you the Bey's bed and the view from the rooftops. |
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I cautiously picked up the instrument, strummed a few chords, closed my eyes, and sang. |
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Now Eddie's garden stretches across two acres, and is adorned with an array of unusual trees, shrubs and plants which he has picked up pursuing his hobby as a reclaimer. |
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Jamie's intercom buzzed again and he picked up the receiver. |
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Chad picked up his phone again and redialed Bethany's number. |
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I picked up the remote to the stereo and turned it down a bit. |
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She moved into the kitchen and Merlin picked up a remote off the table. |
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I picked up the phone, punching in the code to hear our messages. |
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Indeed, I had no sooner picked up the compulsory readings than I discovered there was no line before me, and the last auditioner was just walking out of the room. |
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They stepped back inside, picked up their pipes, and continued smoking their shisha. |
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We picked up some croissants and a thick wedge of baked cheesecake, and pointed at some fruit scones, and then wandered home to curl up and nod off. |
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That same night they were picked up they were taken to a Russian navy base in Sevastopol and each was put in a separate cell. |
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They picked up their lists of questions and the interview began. |
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I picked up my glass wind chimes and threw them against the mirror. |
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