Sentence examples for had been picking for from inspiring English sources

(He said he looked there because he thought the leaves resembled the skins of wine grapes, which he had been picking for weeks).

Most of the many women he had known had been picked for their lack of self-esteem.

Many art-world insiders didn't have a clue in advance who had been picked for the show.

We signed (Hughes) in mid-January before he had been picked for the squad for South Africa where he scored a hundred in each innings of his second Test".

A year later, I was chosen to be the band's student director the very first time a junior had been picked for that important position".

Dayton and Wright-Pat, it appeared, had been picked for their historic role because they were in the back of beyond.

Theater owners signaled that they planned to respond, perhaps refusing to show films that had been picked for early on-demand.

Her father told how the 14-year-old had been picked for the Scottish basketball team only days before the crash on December 22 last year.

Hussey had been picked for the two Twenty20s against England and was just covering here for his brother Mike, who is being rested.

"Blood and Roses," which the band never intended as a single, had been picked for the soundtrack of a movie called "Dangerously Close".

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.