Sentence examples for be picked for a from inspiring English sources

Keyed up by that, Mr Harrer longed to be picked for a Himalayan expedition.

It's like waiting to be picked for a team when everyone else is already paired up.

We're day workers, waiting to be picked for a few hours' pay.

Not the first to be picked for a baseball game, but also not the last, and certainly not an outcast.

Just as a referee from Novara, a town west of Milan, should not be picked for a Juventus game, Moratta said, neither should a referee from Naples.

I didn't even mind that, in our playground breaks, I was usually the second-last to be picked for a team in our unofficial tournaments.

"He and I had a conversation in the summer and he said he didn't want to be picked for an under-21 match against the Faroe Islands.

The highly trained and highly experienced but less widely connected Hispanic middle manager is less likely to be picked for an executive position than is someone with far more social capital.

Carroll hasn't been picked for a competitive game in three years.

Her first break came at 17, when she was picked for a Sassy shoot, and was asked to be a summer intern there.

Mr. Hopkins, for instance, tagged along with Mr. Warner on a trip to a surplus store to ensure that the right rope was picked for a lamp pulley.