Sentence examples for been picked for a from inspiring English sources

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

I'll sidestep Lou Reed's emotional cruelty on The Kids as it's been picked for a previous list, and instead give you Stan Lee Cole's award-winning Separated.

In the diary, Ferdinand said that the players were needlessly wasting energy in wondering if they had been picked for a match, and that they would then find it hard to hit the right intensity levels during a game.

Now, having not been picked for a year, turning 30 next month and with the young players having come in and done well, you start to wonder: 'Are they still looking at me?' "I hope I will be noticed.

A United Kingdom Belle director Amma Asante's new one, a chronicle of the real-life romance between Botswanan prince Seretse Khama (David Oyelowo) and English typist Ruth Williams (Rosamund Pike) has already been picked for a European premiere at the London film festival, so it's bound to have been given a slot at Toronto and/or Telluride.

Stanton, 34, has never been picked for an All-Star team, and he said before the Yankees' game today that he was "trying not to think about it".

Later on he told me: "I was just lucky to have never ever been picked for an execution squad.

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

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

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

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