One has two thoughts upon picking up Gerald Posner's new book, "Miami Babylon".
Upon picking himself up off the fairway at the 18th hole, his ninth of the second round, Stricker received the shot of adrenaline that he needed to continue.
"I don't know how I stopped those shots," Toldo would later admit upon picking up his man-of-the-match award.
So naturally, the first thing you do upon picking up the book is flick to the final page to see what the last word is.
Still, LucyPhone requires cooperation from agents, who upon picking up a call hear a recorded message from LucyPhone telling them to press 1 to be connected with the awaiting customer, whose phone then rings.
Upon picking up an injured runaway boy, Tad Bayliss (Chet Allen, Doc and Enochh become targets of the law: the hellish orphanage from which Tad fled is the object of political patronage during a local election.
Being a reader who loves to dig into books of adventure and mystery genres, upon picking up this book I thought it would be a normal adventure book; the blurb certainly seemed to suggest this.
Upon picking out his ball from the hole, he becomes the first man since the legendary Nick Faldo to perform that bandy-legged Oo-er-I'm-About-To-Collapse comedy stagger.
For much of the movie, though, Mr. Damon is handicapped by the filmmakers' conception of Thorson as someone who is constantly acted upon — picked up, possessed, subjected to cosmetic surgery and dangerous diets, legally adopted by his much older lover and eventually discarded for a younger model.
As well he might, since it so slyly captures James's oblique, elliptical style, a style compared by HG Wells to "a magnificent but painful hippopotamus resolved at any cost, even at the cost of its dignity, upon picking up a pea which has got into a corner of its den".
