It's hard to pick a favourite but here are two that had me laughing out loud. |
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I'll try to pick my three absolute favorites tomorrow and link to all the other ones that were good. |
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With the weather like this, I didn't mind why my parents didn't pick me up from my bus stop today. |
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My aunt lives there, and my grandma is trying to arrange for her to pick me up from the train station. |
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As most of the hotels are on the waterfront, the boats will pick you up from the jetty behind yours and drop you back. |
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With a shrug he got out his pick, shifted the guitar in his lap, and played the notes on the stanzas. |
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If you hail another type of cab and it stops to pick you up, then your journey in that cab will not be covered by insurance. |
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This driver saw the students running to the stop but refused to stop and pick them up. |
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They just said all they had to do was get a warrant for his arrest and go and pick him up. |
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But detectives said they were not going to pick him up as he was not wanted in relation to any charges or criminal investigations. |
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The same night the police raided the houses of many relatives to pick them up. |
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I talked to a guy online for about a minute and a half and he tried to pick me up. |
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I ran into him years later at a senior class car wash when I was eighteen and he tried to pick me up. |
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When she came to pick up her things I made her some lunch and we had a little chat. |
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I'm afraid she doesn't work here anymore, just this morning she came to pick up her things. |
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But one day when I came to pick up my things they weren't there. There was nothing there, no sign of them anywhere. |
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Anyway, they came to pick up her things that were stored in the basement this summer. |
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Whilst we sat waiting for our food to arrive, a steady stream of customers came to pick up take-away orders. |
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I wish I could have personally met you when I came to pick up the suitcase on Tuesday. |
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It's the only way to learn and it's amazing how quickly you can pick it up. |
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I started to learn Thai, I just seem to pick it up and now can speak it pretty well. |
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But she is very susceptible to infections and if she were to pick something up then it could be fatal. |
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They in turn will multiply the infection and the later lambs to pick it up will become very badly infected. |
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Body work performed on owners and pets works well because animals pick up on stress and often mimic their owners. |
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Babies and toddlers do pick up on stress in the home and often act out what they are unable to put into words. |
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I'm already looking forward to returning in a few years to pick the road up where I've left off. |
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You can pick the road up in Saunces, at the top of town next to Viares Square, home of the Town Hall. |
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Though she would never admit to it, it sure felt good to have a man to pick up after. |
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Even as she swung the pick into the rock, he could see how difficult it was for her. |
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The head is welded directly to the shaft, so if the pick breaks, the tool is ruined. |
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All day for a week, she and other members of her team scoured the arid landscape for fossils, their only tools a tiny pick and a brush. |
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Soon he learnt to recognise, simply from looking at a dried patch of mud, whether it was worth breaking its crust with his pick. |
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The ice at this stage had fused into one large mass and had to be broken with a pick before it could be used. |
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She said it was painful that as a woman she had had to work so hard with a pick. |
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The woman dressed in the loose, mint colored smock was carefully using a pick to arrange the hair of the woman in her chair. |
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Jackie smiled at the freshman, holding a guitar in one hand, music in the other, and a guitar pick in between her teeth. |
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She reached into her pocket, and pulled out a thick black cord with a green guitar pick attached to it. |
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He admitted this was only his fourth show without a backing band, which may account for him dropping his pick into the guitar midsong. |
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He pushed past the boys that had been talking about getting his guitar pick and swept me up in his arms. |
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She became aware of the guitar pick in her pocket once again, then pushed thoughts of it out of her mind. |
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Laura patted her pockets, finally coming up with her guitar pick and one of Carrie's colored pencils. |
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It's no wonder, since he's got seven harpish sisters who pick on him, leaving him a nervous, incommunicative mess. |
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Wiltshire's library users are now able to pick up DVDs of top chart performers in concert. |
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What other company director, though, can pick up a telephone and commandeer the back pages of the next day's newspapers? |
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The plan was to pick a middle-of-the-road load to start, and then work up to a safe maximum in reasonable increments. |
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When you're preparing the baby shower supplies, gifts and favors, the shower theme will practically tell you the best ideas to pick up. |
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He had asked them to sing their favourite songs, and the students would pick their favourites. |
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Participants were asked to rate each scenario on its merits, not to pick their favourite. |
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Internet chat rooms are used as an online version of focus groups that use data mining techniques to pick out certain key words or phrases. |
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The commish sent an investigator to pick through the bones and one year later, the results came through in the mail. |
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The likelihood of success is so great because you can pick an event you are personally committed to, like my lifelong goal of swimming a mile. |
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The quiet guitarist stooped in the gutter to pick up a bag of frozen chicken wings, a pack of custard creams and a small jar of piccalilli. |
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We would buy fresh fruit and pick fresh vegetables from a small garden in the back. |
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Local children will be invited to pick the fruit to encourage them to eat a healthy diet. |
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A girl runs frenzied, searching, sometimes stopping briefly to pick some flowers eager but not bright, hopeful and wanting. |
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When the harvest is ready, children from the estate will be invited to pick the fruit. |
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I missed, and as I walked toward my ball, I reached down to pick up my cigarette. |
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During a round last fall, he had a 20-foot putt that didn't matter, so I told him to pick up his ball. |
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Sure being popular would be great, but if I had to choose, I'd pick friendship over popularity anytime. |
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More importantly when women have the chance to pick a director for a project or help to influence who gets chosen, they pick a man. |
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Alternatively, people pick the first option available to them simply because it's there. |
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To tackle the nose and descend the north ridge, negotiate a rocky corner, then carefully pick your way down, keeping left to avoid difficulties. |
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I have to say that it is a pretty nasty sight, where one has to pick one's way carefully to avoid the mess they leave behind. |
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I guess if you wanted to pick at him, you could say he still takes it upon himself to do too many things. |
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But Ruben liked to pick and pick at her until she exploded so he could turn around and call her childish. |
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The audience will also get the chance to judge the films and to select their favourite pick for the viewer's choice award. |
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You are free, I guess, to take your pick in relation to these and similar options. |
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Meanwhile, if you want to ring the changes with sandwiches you make at home, then take your pick from this delicious recipe selection. |
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You can either help me get over it or you have the option to divorce me, take your pick. |
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Mains include turbot in a langoustine and scallop sauce and monkfish kebabs, or take your pick from the hefty choice of daily specials. |
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The stand-off was the pick of the team, kicking two penalties and converting their try after a concerted drive by the forwards. |
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Jack is the pick of a sorry bunch with six goals in 35 central defensive appearances. |
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His production of John Marston's 1603 tragi-comedy is not, for me, the pick of the bunch. |
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Her rooms were decorated with every sort of fabric you could think of and she had the pick of the jewels of England as well. |
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The said he was their pick because he took an airline that was losing money and made it profitable. |
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When the co-ordinators at the Miss World Canada pageant called her to tell her she was their pick, she was ecstatic and surprised. |
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In this example, the offense sends a big player up to set a pick near the free throw line. |
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If the ball handler brings the defender wide around the pick, its not the screener's fault. |
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At the same time the low man on ball side also goes away from the ball to set a pick. |
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But he still liked the idea of being the guy who gets to pick and choose among a bevy of beauties. |
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A leading connoisseur of bottled water last night advised consumers to pick and choose between bottled and mains water. |
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People can now pick and choose between a wide range of ways of getting fit. |
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They will be able to pick and choose where they operate, while Royal Mail is obliged to keep its universal postal system up and running. |
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Obviously, you have to pick and choose what works for you, but here are the things that I have found really helped me along the way. |
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I tried to pick their brains for any better solutions on how to go about changing the law or simply fixing my own problem. |
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The quiz master joined us and we tried to pick his brain about where he gets his questions from. |
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Walking is easier if you keep your feet facing forwards and pick your feet up with every step you take. |
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At another time, the commission would not dare to pick a quarrel with the president over such a trifle matter. |
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What is wrong with us that we need to pick holes in even the most successful initiatives instead of praising them for their success? |
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My stuff was so hard to pick holes in, however, that almost all of it did eventually get published somewhere in the academic journals. |
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Anyway, my intention wasn't to pick holes in individual campaigns, but to celebrate the richness and diversity of the political landscape. |
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This is exactly the kind of product that professional art historians dislike, and I do not doubt that various specialists will pick holes in it. |
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I may also pick his pockets while he's talking about himself and how awesome he is. |
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I love the people who write reviews and pick it apart and haven't even seen the film. |
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The story is so distressing that it is not at first clear whether it is moral or useful to pick it apart. |
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With mother hospitalised through the shock, Zoe is left to pick up the pieces. |
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Many women are forced into this situation and I see their lives and I help them pick up the pieces. |
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You will, with the help of your parents, pick up the threads when you are released. |
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How do you pick up the threads of an old life, when you know in your heart, it will never be the same again. |
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We will pick up the threads of things that were done well in the last government. |
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You have to be able to remember where you were so you can pick up the threads and continue after an interruption. |
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At the peak of the insurrection, the defenders ran out of tear gas, and snipers began attempts to pick them off. |
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The snipers would pick you off but they are afraid to hit the little girl you are hiding in front of you. |
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The enemies are kind enough to walk one behind another in a straight line, making it easy to pick them off with sniper rifles. |
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They argue with each other, pick on, insult and criticise each other, and they have fun doing it as well. |
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Bullies pick on children who are alone, so can you encourage your child to make more friends and to bring them home? |
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Now they are checking identity cards, bags and can pick people out for interrogation. |
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Sometimes when my mom was indisposed or unavailable to pick me up, Mrs. Melfield would drive me to and from places. |
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At just four years of age she began to pick out tunes she heard on the radio on the family's Baby Grand Piano. |
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At home, Roberta's father repaired an old upright piano, and she began to pick out tunes while sitting on her mother's lap. |
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Exports are expected to pick up, reflecting recovery in the eurozone economies, the country's main export market. |
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Consequently, the economy will not be able to pick up without the recovery of the banking industry. |
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He dialed the number, but it only rang, no one answered and the answering machine didn't pick up. |
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The day before he should have been in London to pick up an award for his stunning pile-up picture of cyclists coming a cropper in the Sydney Olympics. |
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He was the pick of the performers last season at half-back and stood out as one of the better players in a team that has taken a battering week-in and week-out. |
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It's human nature to pick people apart and you're under all this scrutiny. |
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I wish she had let the answering machine pick up and answer. |
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Once, she fell and couldn't pick herself up but I dragged her nonetheless. |
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To speed the process on rougher surfaces, they also used a scabbling pick, which was similar to an ordinary pick only shorter of handle and stout of casting. |
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It seems that the judges were rather parsimonious with their scores, but by giving her the highest scores, it was clear that she was their pick for the title. |
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But by the time they went to pick up the suitcase, it could not be found. |
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If your magic runs a bit short, you can order a copy from the local bookstore, and the hotel will pick it up and deliver it to you after midnight. |
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Children pick up on stress so if you're unhappy, they will be too. |
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It was two years before she began to pick up the threads of her life. |
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The taxi passed through the main drinking area, and people were literally throwing themselves on the bonnet of the car to try and force it to stop and pick them up. |
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He would have had to hire a private contractor to come pick that stuff up. |
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He threw a guitar pick at Connor who caught it after 2 attempts. |
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I didn't get a chance to finish it but I think I'll pick it up soon. |
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We had to sign up to the agreement, we couldn't pick and choose. |
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She couldn't pick and choose when it was convenient to be with me. |
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Often in things like this, one journalist builds a list of instances, and then it gets flipped from story to story as other journalists pick it up. |
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I want to pick your brain on some other issues of the day first. |
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Tousle the hair with a styling pick before finishing with a holding spray. |
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But when he came back from lunch break, his pick had been stolen. |
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I heard his name, but I'd never be able to pick him out of a crowd. |
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I think one of the reasons why I rarely, if ever, actually pick a fight or argument is because I play the scene out inside my head before I do anything. |
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He tried to pick me up at the bar. I am not sure how I feel about it. |
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And never lick your fingers, pick your teeth, or floss at the table. |
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It's hard to pick holes in his form and he is a worthy favourite. |
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As he engages with the merciless classmates who rag him and pick at him every day, he imagines himself in computer graphics in the armour of the warrior. |
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I ran into him at a club in my early 20s, and he tried to pick me up. |
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Previously worn and dirty clothes contain the same foul odour producing bacteria and you will pick the infection up again within seconds of contact. |
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As a result, if the economy is to improve, investment must pick up. |
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We just walk out to the freezer in the garage and take our pick. |
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I grabbed my guitar pick in my hand and started to strum on the chords. |
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Of course, you must match your seat covers to your dash cover, so take your pick from a wide choice of seat covers, which come in a variety of fabrics and colors. |
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If I were to be someone's guest for a week, I'd pick up after myself. |
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You just said that we were going to pick their pockets, not con them. |
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We were then invited to take our pick from a choice of starters. |
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The anchor man's propensity to select the correct pass at all times once more saw him stand out as the pick of City's trialists before his half-time substitution. |
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Let the machine pick up the calls, and only answer if it's me or Denny. |
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Pat threw his drumsticks into the crowd, while Jay threw his guitar pick. |
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