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picked
1. He got picked on in school as a kid for stuttering, so my parents told me never to pick on kids, which is fine, but their reasoning was more out of fear that the kid might “snap,” not because it was the right thing to do
2. Her side of the headboard was picked over, the light stuff was gone, a picture of a home in the inner canals remained, a feathered set of hair rings was gone
3. Yes, the whole native data system is shut down for the forty or so hours of dark every week, no messages can be sent or picked up on the old crystals or the new
4. It’s been picked really clean, but I think there’s some green ones still
5. “This is why I hate facing people as weak as you,” Scar told her as he extended his hand and picked up his gun
6. Liam picked up the putter, felt its weight in his hand, swung it a few times like a cricket bat
7. While they were on the way back to the boat she picked up a news magazine because of the headline 'Killer Asteroid on the Way?' and found that "One of Cynd's larger asteroids was knocked out of orbit by an unobserved collision forty years ago and dropped into the gravitational well of the brown dwarf
8. Johnny picked up his backpack and headed for the door
9. But then she really didn't know what info he had picked up since they split
10. "You save the camping gear we picked up," she said, "I hardly ever use it at the inns where I travel
11. She had to share a cabin to afford passage to the next port, but the man she picked was more of Kulai's build than Herndon's or Jorma's
12. doostEr picked up the wagon end of the harness and dragged it to the rockasaur's tongue
13. ‘She rang because she picked up a bit of information this afternoon from her daughter
14. coat, David picked up his darling girl, manoeuvred her down the stairs to the street
15. For the rest of the evening they picked at their food, constantly
16. He picked the right staging axes to bring, to use on a strap of smaller timbers that he hung from a little adapter pulley off the backbone
17. Once the shiny Audi was out of sight he made his heavy way back into the station and fished an old battered phone from his pocket and selected a speed dial number that picked up quickly
18. She picked up instantly
19. It was right then that my son picked his moment to come to me with latest problem
20. ‘Hello … you picked that up quickly
21. As he picked them up a horned
22. "The natives call this body 'NahniNarrulla,' 'Narrulla's Tear'," Ava said, "and I've picked that up
23. The report Ava's radio had picked up from Sol said New Dallas had been destroyed within a half hour of releasing their first rock
24. One of them picked me up by the shirt collar and shoved me against the wall
25. You have to tell me what was on your tattoos and you have to tell me why they picked you
26. "Is there some chance the real reason I was picked first was because of this android?"
27. She picked a hot and lazy late summer day, though the date was well into October
28. "He constantly picked on everything that I did, trying to find fault with it
29. The catcher picked the ball up and easily threw Stewey out at first base
30. picked up this morning when leaving his hut at first light
31. She picked up a training bag and headed to the city's Southside and Ireland's only full roller derby rink
32. OK crotch stain, you picked the wrong day to mess with WMD
33. Rafa leaned in and picked me up by the lapels
34. "For all you know he's picked up your sister," Herndon said
35. He picked up with Christine in his second year … must have been about Easter, I think, she was a quiet girl, intelligent and not particularly pretty
36. As he picked his way through the web, gently pulling himself along in the null-gees, his helmet highlighted the figures of his fellow reds outside, out on the ring
37. He said he mapped in the specific point he picked for us to breach space based on tidal shifts in local stellar gravity
38. I've picked you because you are the most competent of those who's sympathy I trust
39. This detector had picked up a trace that was listed as that of the Al-Harron
40. I washed feebly, forgetting to shampoo my hair, and when I returned to the cell I sat on my mattress and picked idly at my food
41. They had to show him pictures before he would believe it, but the video of a theirops getting picked up in its jaws and chunked down in three bites was convincing
42. All of them, the grown stone and the shaftwood, had vine covered balconies on almost every floor and the blooms were a deep magenta and last year's pods a rosy mahogany where they hadn't been picked already
43. Then he picked up his whole empty rack in one hand and put it away
44. He cut off one of the guards’ hands and picked up the torch that was
45. What about before you came across? Renald had jumped to the conclusion that you were looking into the problem of illegal immigrants … what if someone had picked up on that and assumed it was correct … yes, that would present a valid reason for someone to try to kill her
46. of a life less lived to remind us that the life that was picked out
47. Angered by this the soldier picked up the hammer beside the coals and with
48. Son picked up his sword and ran back to the temple with great haste
49. ’ Kara said with determination as Iain picked up her bag and smiled at Angie
50. Son picked up the dagger that the soldier had dropped and stabbed the
