Sentence examples for mate picked from inspiring English sources

Mr. Odinga, the second-place finisher in the election, chose a lawyer from his Luo ethnic group; Mr. Kenyatta put his case in the hands of a lawyer from his Kikuyu ethnic group; William Ruto, Mr. Kenyatta's running mate, picked a Kalenjin lawyer from his ethnic group; and even the election chairman, Isaack Hassan, selected a fellow Somali-Kenyan to represent him.

The former governor of Vermont (population 610,000) is doing more to shape the Democratic primary than either John Kerry, a senator from Massachusetts (population 6.4m), or Joe Lieberman, who as Al Gore's running mate picked up 51m votes in 2000.To understand why this is happening you need to understand the state of mind of hard-core Democrats.

"The older generation voting to leave the EU is the same as your mate picking the film then leaving 20 minutes in," one teenager joked on Facebook.

I remember my mate picking me up and driving me from the airport, and I thought 'what are these big posts, do they play rugby here?' "They were different posts and I had no idea what Australian rules football was.

Two of us go for bombs, and my mate picks a bow.

1.55pm: On prediction anger specifically and generally Geoffrey Saunders writes: "Regarding the predictions, in order 1) anyone who watches football with their eyes open would say the same 2) Not very dark horses, half my mates picked them too 3) with Maradona as coach it was very predictable.

Smith and his team-mates picked up the first British men's team medal in a century, four years after he won pommel horse bronze at the Beijing Games.

After scoring the goal that took him past Zarra's total, Messi's team-mates picked him up and threw him into the air several times while the crowd at the Nou Camp roared its approval.

One fascist was knocked to the floor and anti-fascists gave him a kicking until his mates picked him up and the police jumped in.

Didier Drogba was as statesmanlike as he always is in an orange shirt, walking round his team-mates picking them from the floor and raising spirits but he must fear that this is the end.

It is at least partly their presence that gives A Clockwork Orange elements of an early 70s soft-core sex comedy - with McDowell as a kind of Bizarro-world Robin Askwith, larking about with his mates, picking up birds at the local record shop and getting laid.