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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Quickly and quietly, he lifted himself out of the pool, picked up the bucket and filled it with pool water. |
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Last week the kids had made apple crisp with the apples they picked on my second day. |
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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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It upsets me as a veteran to see these sorts of old wounds picked apart and used for political purposes. |
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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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She reached over to the small counter in the shower and picked up a bottle of body wash, scrubbing it gently over her skin. |
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When I needed new tires for my car, I asked the guy in the tire place if the tires I picked out were all weather radials. |
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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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He picked up his cell phone to call her but thought that he would be waking up the whole house. |
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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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In fact I have picked it up again several more times just to annoy my history teacher. |
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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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It is not purely for the benefit of the prosecution to have the suspect picked out. |
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Seeing that fewer than half the EU electorate picked these MEP characters, is it any wonder that apathy abounds? |
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She's doing warp speed and I'm glad everybody picked up on her even though she's weird and British and crazy. |
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He picked up his cards, finding the ace of diamonds he tossed it on the pile. |
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Once Saki broke through the atmosphere, the ship's radar picked up an approaching craft. |
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Three randomly picked clones from each PCR reaction were eventually sequenced. |
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Their activity picked up and they began putting explosives into bags and readying their weapons. |
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One alpha male rules the group, and there is a strict pecking order all the way down to the lowliest monkey, who is picked on by everyone. |
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Last year her dream came true when she was picked to be one of Robbie's backing dancers. |
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On autopilot, I picked up my dress with my free hand and began walking with Andrew. |
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Making a face, she picked the plate back up, going to work on the spiced sausages, forcing it down with the hot drink he had concocted. |
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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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He was toying absently with a leaf that he had picked up, which made me wonder about what he was thinking. |
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He was well known as a worthless man and was picked on whenever he was spotted. |
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She was used to Maria's rants and tirades, having picked her up from every session ever since she got a drivers' license. |
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He grinned and picked me up, sending a jolt of surprise through me and making me let out an involuntary shriek of laughter. |
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He lifted her up carefully, realizing that he had picked her up so many times that it hardly even mattered to either him or her anymore. |
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Motorists can wait for free until arriving passengers call to say they are ready to be picked up. |
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I picked him up, gave him a wake-up cuddle, and plonked him down in front of his breakfast dish, still half-full with perfectly good food. |
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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 pile of pamphlets and dumped them in the wastepaper basket. |
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With her fingers, she picked up a water chestnut experimentally and placed it in her mouth. |
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Radio too picked up the story, first in editorial commentary and then as a radio drama. |
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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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The vocals sounded great and picked up all the raspiness and highs in her voice. |
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Friday was oldest ds's birthday, so we picked him up at his dad's and made a good ol' fashioned family night of it. |
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After several rebuffed efforts to recycle them curbside, I called the recyclers to ask what I had to do to get my boxes picked up. |
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As I picked my way through the grounds, I remembered two warnings that have been passed down to me through the ages. |
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In contrast, those patients that picked themselves up and put the incident behind them were found to have readjusted to life at a quicker rate. |
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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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Winter winds picked up quickly in the desert causing violent sandstorms every which way. |
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The spined micrathena, common in the U.S., vibrates with such gusto that if you picked one up, you'd think it was a wind-up toy. |
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I was crying and Peter picked me up and took me out the back door of the club so I wouldn't make a scene. |
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They picked their best batsman, their best bowler and their best all-rounder. |
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He picked out Mark O'Brien and the full forward calmly stroked the ball into the net. |
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Carefully he picked her up in his arms and walked through the alleyways to get to his home. |
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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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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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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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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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He picked up speed and dashed through the ever-increasing crosswinds of sand. |
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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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His nose picked up no scent of a living body, only that of blood, corpses, soot, and other chaos. |
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After an apprenticeship in the minors, a few umpires are picked to jump to the bigs. |
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Martinez quickly picked the ball up and tagged third base, seemingly forcing Gibson. |
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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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Having picked up new skills, after a fashion, I'm keen to employ them on a proper mountain tour. |
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Anyway, today I picked up some Passion fruit juice so I could make the Demerara cocktail. |
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They say they have picked up more than 900 abandoned pets, since the storm ended. |
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The dog sniffed at Raider's shoes and then pawed at AJ's legs, asking to be picked up, short little tail waggling happily. |
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The fruit travels well if picked just before it is fully ripe, so fresh lychees are available in western countries. |
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We picked up the first Mk-25 at a quarter-mile and then got a visual on the ship's wake. |
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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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She picked up a mascara wand and gently tugged it open, revealing a crisp new wand coated in mascara. |
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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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The chairman, who will not come from any of the warring factions, is expected to be picked this week. |
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Users who run into trouble are offered a replacement handheld and cradle, with postage and packing charges picked up by Palm. |
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She picked up the two sheets and dragged them over to the washtub before angrily throwing them in. |
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All but one of the crew were picked up by the Mevagissey lifeboat and landed there. |
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Rules, I'm afraid he's picked up from that obnoxious queenie friend of his. |
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He must have been alone because he picked up the receiver at the first ring. |
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The remaining five were picked off as they rushed the vans in an attempt to find sanctuary from the hail of bullets. |
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The faction of Moscow loyalists essentially waited and picked up the pieces of the shattered organization. |
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Regular commuters to Dublin can also wave the bus down along the route each morning and they will be picked up. |
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She lay perfectly still as they fetched another man, who rappelled down on a rope and picked Tori up. |
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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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There were no respawns in this section and we have to say we panicked somewhat and were picked off by a red team sniper. |
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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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Obviously injuries may be picked up in their Boxing Day game against Portsmouth, so keep one eye on that match. |
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When he comes home from school he is very agitated and upset, and can't understand why he is being picked on. |
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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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He got some relief from a homoeopathic remedy he picked up at Tullivers herbs and wholefood shop in Colliergate, York. |
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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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My cousin Katie and her new man Andrew picked me up at the airport late Wednesday night. |
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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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When she had finished, Rebekah picked up the empty wicker basket and turned to go inside. |
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The camera's magic eye doesn't know exactly what subject you want to be in focus and picked the wrong one in the viewfinder! |
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He picked up and his relaxed mood soon tensed, urgency in his voice as he nodded. |
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They have ultimate control over when the shipments arrive at a booth and when they are picked up. |
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This relays a signal which is picked up by mobile phone transmitters along the rail route. |
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Adam put on some pants and picked up a random shirt from his dirty laundry. |
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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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She suspects recipients' names and addresses have been picked randomly from an outdated telephone directory. |
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Arrange the flowers which were picked yesterday for airfreight from East Africa. |
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She picked the notebook up and flipped through it, finding various pictures of nature scenes and mythical beings and such. |
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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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I'm one of those people who comes back from a visit to the beach with my pockets bulging with stuff I've picked up. |
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Why had Madame Rostropov, the real fortune teller, picked tonight not to turn up? |
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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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Once safely inside the telephone booth, he picked up the phone and began dialing his mother's number. |
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Dave's solitary walk of shame was met by mass indifference as he picked his way amongst rush hour traffic. |
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Stations there picked up and rebroadcast the analog signals relayed by satellite from the Netherlands. |
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And in a quick movement, Matthew and picked his half full bottle of Fanta up and walked out of the vending room. |
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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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Smicer again picked him out with an astute pass in the 18th minute that wrong-footed the visitors' defence. |
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Hallie laid the dress she picked out for the festivities on the bed, careful not to wrinkle the fabric. |
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I weeded the garden and picked produce for Jan to take to the Saturday market when she returned. |
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Diminishing returns in the sciences seem inevitable because the low-hanging fruit was picked first. |
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This looks like it will be the last of the Average Joe shows, because the girl has picked the hot guy and not the average joe both times now. |
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In a short period of time old wounds were opened up and picked over, and legal assumptions about historical restitution were overturned. |
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I picked it up to see what I had hit, and to my surprise, it was Cam's journal. |
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He picked the larger shivers of glass out of the cut but that just made it bleed more. |
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From Lippershey, Galileo picked up the idea of building a telescope for astronomical research. |
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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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Cate picked a few apples from a fruit tree in the grove, wondering if they had any food to eat. |
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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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We had long since decided that he was picking middle names that went with the first names we picked out. |
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The legislature has picked up these words and turned them into statutory law. |
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I had felt a sharp pain, but ignored it and lifted Raine off the floor and picked her up once more. |
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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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Grapes in these warm, humid states are usually picked in late July or early August. |
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He bandaged her wounds with bits of his clothing and picked her up into his arms. |
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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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He'd kept his nose out of their business, but they picked at him nevertheless. |
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I picked a random room and walked in, not being able to hold Corbin's weight long enough to find his room. |
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A woman passenger reserved her ticket in advance and picked it up yesterday morning, but the airline didn't tell her about the cancellation. |
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Close to where I had been sitting the light picked out a squat toad about the size of a small teapot. |
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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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That's when the bouncer picked Chad up like a sack of potatoes and a scuffle ensued. |
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Take the magazine I picked up recently in the waiting room of my daughter's music school. |
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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 the forest by her house we picked wild raspberries, and I got stung by nettles. |
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I headed back in the store with Spense and we found out that the woman behind me had picked it up and walked off with it. |
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A thorough brushing will dislodge ticks picked up during walkies, they add. |
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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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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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He was arrested in April and maintained his denials even after he had been picked out by the boy during identification procedures. |
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The overall tone is a muted greenish grey, picked out by the stone statue of the Madonna and the abundant foliage. |
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It reveals an aromatic nose and flavoursome, velvety-smooth palate of Darjeeling tea, freshly picked roses and black cherries. |
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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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Slate has picked it up, and I read also the admonitory article in the Chronicle on this subject some months ago. |
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I don't know if she accidentally picked up the phone or deliberately did that. |
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Plane captains usually are undesignated Navy airmen, meaning they haven't picked a rate or occupation specialty. |
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Only just done, I would have picked them as poached but, whatever, they were sensational. |
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The star has been picked for jury duty, but he doesn't believe he will have to sit through a trial. |
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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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But during his trial, he claimed after he picked up the young woman she made advances to him. |
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Chrissy picked the blue map book up from the floor by her feet and opened it at random. |
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By way of comparison, I went to the book shelf and picked out three Ian Fleming books at random. |
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As part of a recent study, pupils are keeping an eye on a freshly picked daffodil which has begun to turn blue. |
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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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The sample was randomly picked from the unemployment register for 16-30 year olds. |
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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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The brushes I'd found were a cheap, bargain lot I picked up in Swansea for a couple of quid some time last year. |
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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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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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Or was it because after they picked her father up they looked at her rap sheet and found several warrants for her arrest? |
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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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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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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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Walking over to her wardrobe, she picked out a pair of jeans, a tank top and a light jacket. |
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A national childcare competition has picked a Southend carer as its winning entrant. |
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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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I've picked ten of the best trees you can plant in your yard. Consider planting yellow poplar or tulip tree. |
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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 obviously thinks it's time we donned our pith helmets and picked up the white man's burden again. |
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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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I have still got that card you picked out because it was like my dog Nip, and it was the dead ring of him. |
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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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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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We were trawling through surveillance tapes when the call over the radio said they had been picked up outside. |
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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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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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The bananas grown for export are suitable for being picked when only two-thirds ripe, and continue to ripen during shipment. |
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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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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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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 picked at the vegetables, ate the potato, and then pushed the plate away from me. |
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It deserves to be lauded and praised as much as it deserves to be scrutinized and picked apart. |
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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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Today, a very nice guy named Daniel Miller came and picked me up and squired me all over Sydney. |
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For the inauguration, they picked a student among the participants to inaugurate the seminar. |
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She picked me up in her brand new Mustang Convertible about a second after I'd finished spritzing my hair for the millionth time. |
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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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The radars picked up and tracked the pieces of the shuttle as they fell to Earth. |
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So what assumptions have many people here picked up in their childhood and adolescence? |
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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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Leaflets can be picked up from around the town, including the town hall and the library. |
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In 1990 Kyrgyz reformers picked a physicist essentially out of obscurity to run their country. |
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He picked up the fool's gun and cocked it in the direction of the children. |
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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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Growing up bilingual in English and German, Hobsbawm picked up three or four other languages along the way. |
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Here are our new arrivals, the 3 Tamworth boar weaners we picked up from Dumfries today. |
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The president would not have picked him as Secretary of State if there were any doubt about his reliability or loyalty. |
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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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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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And where we spent the resources and we talked to Hispanics, we picked up the Hispanic vote. |
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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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The broadsheets and music press picked up on them first, with the tabloids following. |
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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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In less than an hour the assembled scavengers had picked the wildebeest's bones clean. |
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I remember that the tree was heavily laden with mangoes that day, and we both climbed the tree and picked some of the succulent fruit. |
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I expect that no-one else has yet seen this poem but good luck to anyone who picked it up in the 20 seconds it was available. |
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They were picked up too, and brought into hangars by metal claws on strong wires. |
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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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While most bands head across the Tasman to Australia when they want to make the big move out of NZ, The D4 picked Japan as their destination. |
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The old girl stopped doing the jitterbug and picked up a lively waltz instead. |
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Birds chirped, flapping in the swaying trees as the breeze picked up a notch. |
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Joe ran over to the clinic to cancel his patients and rearrange his vacation schedule, and picked me up some breakfast on the way back. |
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I picked it up and was mildly surprised to see my name written in perfect cursive across the front. |
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Both babies were tagged properly and put into the correct cots but the wrong baby was picked up. |
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Miranda was the true career woman so they picked her to get pregnant and look how miserable they've made her. |
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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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As the train picked up speed, we caught the whiff of, well, a rest room in terrible need of cleaning. |
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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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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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I grabbed her, picked her up, and swung her around like they do in the movies. |
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Finding teamsters, to transport the hand picked ore to Port Adelaide for smelting at Swansea, proved a major problem. |
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Of course some audience members want to be picked out and made fun of, as they purposely dress up for the part. |
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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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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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Sobering somewhat, thinking of everything that Mister Black had told him, Kyle picked up the phone and hit redial. |
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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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Those who teach kids all agree that those kids who saw their parents and grandparents knitting picked knitting up faster. |
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In some markets, weeklies or monthlies picked up the comic after dailies dropped it. |
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Doreen picked up her knitting once more, the needles flashing in the lamplight and clicking rhythmically. |
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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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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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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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The economy stagnated in the second quarter as the global slowdown hit exports and manufacturing, even as consumer spending picked up. |
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Then, he picked out a piece of paper and unfolded the paper that had the word, Dianna written on it. |
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Kaitie picked pink shorts, baby-doll flowered tank top, and a matching hairpiece, pink socks, and white shoes. |
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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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That call has been picked up, in part, if not in whole, by some politicians, seeking to capitalize on that anger. |
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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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He is so thin and reedy you worried for his balance when the wind picked up, but he moves with soft, sumptuous delicacy. |
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The air grew foul, the reek of rotting death made them heave as they picked their way through the mass of tangled bodies. |
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By reel three, the film has become a creature feature, as they are picked off one by one by a stealthy hunter. |
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In an Ohio Wal-Mart, John Crawford III was strolling around the store and had picked up an air rifle that was for sale there. |
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Then, once abed was done, he picked up the water that had been set on the table. |
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Kaine picked up the former sentiment, arguing against the notion that America is on decline. |
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She squatted next to the reporter, and picked up a shard of glass. |
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If you are lucky enough to live close to an art house theater that has picked up Still Bill, go now. |
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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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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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At the age of three Taylor picked up an interest in the arts, which evolved into a passion for painting with mixed media. |
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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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I picked up a strand of his long brown hair, and wound it round my finger. |
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Courgettes are actually baby marrows, just picked earlier from the plant. |
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The one she picked out was a beauty, a big one, an A-frame with picture windows for the New West view. |
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Asked to name his favorite red carpet superstars, however, he picked Halle Berry, Victoria Beckham and Oprah Winfrey. |
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The Tigers made a few good trades this season and picked up some promising players. |
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I didn't answer, just picked my knitting back up and started to stitch. |
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The entrant which gets the highest number of text votes will walk away with the trophy, while one of the voters will be picked at random to win a prize. |
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Cattle lowed behind him as Joe picked his way through the snow. |
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Allison picked out a nice lavender and white flower printed summer dress with loose straps and a cut along the side only going up as far as the knee. |
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Plus, Kate and William could hardly have picked a worse time for their luxury vacation to a resort in Noonu atoll. |
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To this end, one worker has been picked out, made an example of and punished, together with a member of the factory council who was also dismissed without notice. |
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On the final day, the north-eastern breeze picked up to about force four. |
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They picked up their lists of questions and the interview began. |
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The irregular mosaic of small fields below looked almost universally dry, with the heavily treed hedgerows picked out in a dark green reminiscent of much later in the summer. |
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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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A keen botanical eye might also have picked out pepperweed, yellow woodsorrel, soapwort, horseweed, ironweed, black nightshade, sheep sorrel, curly dock, and small eyebane. |
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And with the successful reforms of the last 20 years, we've picked the low-hanging fruit and we're going to have to do something pretty substantial to get out of this. |
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She quickly picked up the telephone book, found her number and dialed. |
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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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He, too, picked up his glass of milk and started to drink it. |
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As the hounds picked up their scent, the howls became snarls. |
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For years the supermarket giants have been looking to get their claws into the pharmacy market as they have slowly picked off the rest of the High Street. |
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She had picked it because of its relative isolation from the others behind the condiments table, as if it had disdained the company of its fellows. |
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She picked up a hail of bad words from several of the other drivers. |
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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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Other news organizations then picked up on the story, sourcing it back to The Times. |
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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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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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It was picked out as the best of the bunch and sent to the workshop to be converted into a driver training bus and given a new coat of green paint. |
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Anastagio picked up a button mushroom and threw it at his son, hitting him on the nose, smiling even as he did it despite the fact that the gesture was a warning. |
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He recalled how York had picked off the soldiers to the rear, so that the lead soldiers didn't recognise the severity of the threat their enemy posed. |
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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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Jerry Lee, performing for a week at the Dearborn Hyatt, picked Shawn out from among the girls. |
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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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But other Sunbelt locales, notably Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma have picked up much of the slack. |
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Darren and him were talking and Bruce had an acoustic guitar and picked it up and played the song for Darren. |
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Then he picked up a bag, and offered it to the attendee who happened to be closest to him. |
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Dennis is too busy thanking God we weren't picked up by an axe murderer. |
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Ryan exuded Midwestern earnestness when Romney picked him, and the press gushed over his P90X workout regimen. |
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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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After sticking our heads into various hostels to inquire about prices, we picked one a few blocks from the square which was very clean, as hostels go. |
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The province picked up the tab to rebuild the roadway, while the city paid for the sidewalks and boulevard enhancements through frontage levies and general taxation. |
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Before the commencement of the festival young maidens put their names into a hat and the young men picked out the name of the girl who would be their partner for the festival. |
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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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A wallet gets picked from inside a kimono sleeve in a momentary impulse. |
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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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They usually chose kids that were seven years old, but I got picked when I was in the year below and only six, because I had such a big gob on me. |
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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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Trek picked up the long lunge whip, and pointed it at Shiloh's hip. |
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