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Discover LudwigThe phrase "and so picked up" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that someone or something was collected or acquired as a result of a preceding action or situation.
Example: "She was feeling down, and so picked up a book to distract herself."
Alternatives: "and thus collected" or "and therefore acquired".
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What if people got used to the idea that the government could and would do this, and so picked up the pace and turned away when they saw people gathering to listen to a speaker, or reading a sign on a wall, and never heard or saw what was being said?
It was Barshai's desire to establish a string quartet that led him to the viola: he could not find the player he wanted for the group and so picked up the instrument himself, taking instruction from Vadim Borisovsky, who raised the stature of the viola in the USSR rather as Lionel Tertis did in Britain.
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Producer prices are more sensitive to raw-material costs than the price of services is and so pick up inflation signals sooner.
Back in the kitchen, Sunday church dinner would have been cooking on the two back burners as Mrs. So-and-so picks up the burning hot comb.
We dedicate this mix to you and your cat, so pick up that puss and dance around like no one's watching. .
He dances alone; then various others join him — and, in doing so, pick up his style.
Metallic ballet flats look great with tutus and bright shorts so pick up a few pairs.
So pick up and dial.
"It's such a wonderful gift to be an actor who makes her living working on the Broadway stage," she said, "and then every 30 years or so, pick up one of these".
So pick up the tools and begin the work.
So pick up the pen and begin again.
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