Sentence examples for means I picked from inspiring English sources

Twenty-odd years later, after having acquired a good deal of experience with the opposite sex, not all pleasant by any means, I picked the book up again and found that I could appreciate it in an altogether different way.

I mean I picked this role because I've loved Jeff movies before, so I really would have played anything that he would have given me.

I mean, I pick them out at the grocery store or the farmer's market, but I very rarely get the chance to actually pick something that was growing on a tree or a bush and then eat it.

He added that Tellem's gesture "means that I picked the right people to go with".

Welch has said publicly that if his successor splits up GE, "It means I've picked the wrong guy–I haven't done my job well".

I am trying to understand exactly what it means when I pick up the boxes of ham and bacon and roasts and sausage at the butcher.

Well, if it means I still get picked next timearound, then I'll not complain, Anton.

I picked up a bottle of Dr. B's popular peppermint scent and by "picked up," I mean "picked up the bottle I'd had in my shower for the past six months".

She added: "That doesn't mean I am picking on British Islam, but if you think about what our security services are looking at – 2,000 individuals that have come from those faith schools – when does indoctrination start?" Few outside the party are likely to have heard of Duffy before her bid for leadership was backed by Suzanne Evans, the party's former deputy chairman.

Have you extended any invitations?" I am generally met with a startled look (as if to say, "You mean I should pick up a phone?") accompanied by a response to the effect of, "Why should I be the one who has to make a call / issue an invitation / instigate a get-together / make the first move...after all, I am the one who is suffering".

"I mean, why did I pick Riverside Drive?