Sentence examples for i once picked from inspiring English sources

At 12, I once picked up a daisy-covered address book, to find only one entry, under P, Prostitute, followed by a list of massage parlor numbers.

Jim McNulty, Glasgow I once picked a guy up and he was so drunk, he fell asleep on the floor of the cab.

From shallows in the Merrimack in Manchester, New Hampshire, I once picked up a ball that bore the logo of a country club two and a half miles upstream.

You can find all sorts of treasures there (I once picked up a signed Martin Amis for a few quid) - and you needn't bump into any famous comedians while you're at it.

She was admiring it and I said, in my patronising old chef's way: "You know that's not yours till it's drawn your blood?" I once picked up a lovely little artisan knife in New York, on the way to a wedding, and managed to embed it in my thumb.

I also relearned a useful lesson that I once picked up when I was teaching my A-level students: Be prepared to adapt your lesson to the circumstances and, if necessary, cut things out if they aren't working.

Maybe because I've never got the hang of hobbits, more likely because in my hitch-hiking youth, I was once picked up by a driver who told me his car was called Sepulchrave, and for the next 100 miles explained why.

I was once picked up by the police on Fatty Arbuckle's front lawn.

I'd once picked wild chanterelles in Sweden, cooking the delicate golden leaves at a friend's cabin on the Baltic Sea.

I remember once picking up Derek from Barts, and driving down the A21 to Washfield Nursery en route to Prospect Cottage.

I remember once picking up Derek from Barts, and as we drove down the A21 to Washfield nursery, he told me how he was becoming progressively blind...and it would not be long before all his sight was lost.