Sentence examples for had picked for from inspiring English sources

I love you!" I said into his neck and the nice oatmeal sweater that I had picked for him.

He walked downhill, using the escape route he had picked for himself, a trench carved by a bulldozer.

A few years earlier, Bishop, in "Crusoe in England," had picked, for hers, a retired Robinson Crusoe nostalgic for his island days.

The sudden downfall last month of the German president, Christian Wulff, whom she had picked for the job in 2010, did her no apparent harm.

The wallpaper we had picked for the downstairs powder room — the source of some spirited arguments, as I recall — also had survived.

"He was a member of the Ferrari family and was the driver we had picked for the future – once the collaboration with Raikkonen was over.

Of the nine wines I've picked for the day-and-a-half of matrimonial festivities, seven are French.

He's not the sort of opponent I would have picked for my first defence, he's got a style it's difficult to look good against.

Like my grandfather, Bill Miller of Washington State has his own secret places to search for morels, which he has picked for the past 50 years.

Among the designated tracts that have stirred controversy is the section of Long Island City that Amazon has picked for one of its two new headquarters.

For one thing, it "implies that the only rewarding scientific research is a topic you have picked for yourself".