Sentence examples for deliberately picking from inspiring English sources

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"Strangers were deliberately picking through this, sifting for things they could get away with publishing," Sherborne said.

The German Football Association (DFB) decided to fine the pair €20,000 each for deliberately picking up yellow cards but not to give them additional suspensions.

I feel that calling this painting-by-numbers is inaccurate, because at least with that you can feign creativity by deliberately picking a different colour.

A clearly emotional Mr McCluskey accused Mr Miliband of deliberately picking a fight in an echo of Tony Blair's "Clause IV moment" when he got rid of Labour's historic commitment to collective ownership.

And he's exploited partisan incentives to bring his fellow Republicans around to his ideas, deliberately picking battles — from the Libya intervention to drone warfare — where a more restrained foreign policy vision doubles as a critique of the Obama White House.

We spent ages beforehand minimising the amount of damage we'd make – abandoning the pram in favour of a baby carrier, cramming all the assembled going-out paraphernalia into tiny satchels, deliberately picking a quiet train, and finding the most obscured seats in case he needed to breastfeed – and hoped against hope that he wouldn't cry.

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"I kind of deliberately picked people" who were very accomplished in order to "challenge the category".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3biFxZIJOQ Conli said the film-makers deliberately picked an obscure comic book to adapt to film.

Asked about the image, Mr. Kelly, of Time, said he had deliberately picked a face that looked ordinary.

They were looking for a change from the usual run of painters and sculptors, who responded to the paintings themselves, and deliberately picked someone who was  neither.

Some people deliberately pick up a basket rather than collect a trolley in supermarkets, to prevent themselves from buying too much.

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