Sentence examples for pick up a thing from inspiring English sources

Then pick up a thing, a can, of silver polish at Feldman's on the way home, so we can start on the library mantelpiece trophies again before my folks get here on Tuesday.

As a result, this NSRV edition can survive beyond the Sunday-school classroom or hotel nightstand; the reader walks away with a greater appreciation for Lewis's oeuvre, and may even pick up a thing or two from the Good Book in the process.

If not there is still hope that you can pick up a thing or two with America's Next Top Model Cycle 9 mobile game, which just launched on Artificial Life's m-commerce portal, and will soon be available on-deck through various carriers.

Keep working on your portfolio and keep sharing your work, go through online tutorials and you also might pick up a thing or two and improve on your own.

He goes to the supermarket to pick up a thing of Entenmann's in a sweatshirt he got for renewing a magazine subscription, gym shorts covered in Spackle dust, Kohl's sandals, and black socks pulled halfway up his calves.

I appear to have picked up a thing or two.

Perhaps these economists have picked up a thing or two from their candidates during the campaign.

Given that he's spent the past 10 years married to Madonna, you imagine he'd have picked up a thing or two.

This year, he's shown a bit more nuance with the ball in his hands, suggesting he's picked up a thing or two from Paul in to the delicate timing of probing and compromising a defense without losing control.

Ms. Daddario hadn't met the designer before, she said, but she had been picking up a thing or two regarding "more sophisticated, polished pieces" and was "branching out into color," like the red lace dress she was wearing.

Sam Elliot is the head of a top-secret military research center, Jennifer Connelly a scientific genius (maybe she picked up a thing or two on "A Beautiful Mind") and Nick Nolte the hero's proud dad.