Sentence examples for last picked up from inspiring English sources

I last picked up a hitchhiker in the city around five years ago.

It was way back in 1985 that Ireland secured their last triple crown, and 1985 also when Scotland last picked up the wooden spoon.

This is no small feat considering how many designers today work in a range that suggests they last picked up a newspaper to read a review of "Saturday Night Fever".

For much of the developing world, our current digital maps may as well say 'Here there be dragons.' There's a long way to go, but someone has at last picked up a sword.

Lee, who completed an opening 68 with four birdies in his last five holes and a par save from 35 feet on the last, picked up shots second time around on the first, fifth, seventh and 10th, with bogeys coming on the sixth and ninth.

Has the pace of employment growth at long last picked up, creating the possibility that the American economy may close some of the yawning gap between the number of Americans now working and the number that might have been on the job but for the Great Recession?That all depends on the Federal Reserve.

When did you last pick up a chick on Dowling Street?

When did you last pick up a journalism academic tome and get to the end of it?

And preparations for the Olympic Games to be held in Athens in 2004 are at last picking up speed after an embarrassingly muddled start.Greeks are even starting to feel less twitchy about their old regional rival, Turkey.

They are now winless in six league games, last picking up three points in August when they visited West Ham.

QPR lie 17th in the Premier League and have gone eight league games without a win, last picking up three points with a 3-2 win at Stoke on 19 November.