Sentence examples for have picked for from inspiring English sources

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.

With this week's five live semi-finals out of the way, here are some of the 10 acts that the judges have picked for the grand final – which of them will win a spot in this year's Royal Variety Performance?

Sterling drifts back to his family: his dying father, his mother and Yuk, a splendid Chinese woman they have picked for him and whom he will probably not pick.

"The people we end up married to or partnered up with end up being similar to us in race, religion and class background and age, which means that they might not be all that different from the person that your mother would have picked for you".

But even that race was relatively uneventful compared with the one I have picked for this episode of Murray's Memories.

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

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

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

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

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.