Sentence examples for had picked over the from inspiring English sources

For months, the customers had picked over the ugly shirts.

Back at the farmhouse, the aroma of a hearty lunch wafted through the wooden hallways, along with the smell of lavender that Mrs. Unterberger had picked over the summer.

The following evening, after a day in which the media had picked over the government's humiliation in the Lords, the BBC's Newsnight programme invited the work and pensions minister Chris Grayling on air to debate the defeated proposals (which the coalition government intends to restore when the bill returns to the Commons).

The vultures had picked over him some, but he was huge and muscular, still warm.

Geologists have picked over most of the rest of the globe in search of minerals, yet huge swathes of Africa remain largely unprobed.

Photograph: Javier Soriano/AFP/Getty Images 10.45pm BST ITV are covering this match: Having picked over the bones of Spain's exit from the tournament, they're now previewing England's match against Uruguay tomorrow night.

The Senator, who also is an ophthalmologist, said he knew this to be the case from anecdotal information he had picked up over the years and from his own medical residency in the 1970's at the University of Arkansas Medical Center.

Apart from Scott, the prosecution had compiled substantial evidence from men Thorpe had picked up over the years, in bars and clubs and in the street.

Vu was particularly interested in Kali, and Glover gave him the scattered details he had picked up over the years.

Officials from all sides said diplomacy had picked up over the past 24 hours.

There were new ideas too, ideas he had picked up over the past year, from Hand and Chafee, Mill and Smith, Freund and Laski.