Sentence examples for picked me for from inspiring English sources

He never picked me for England.

"But mainly, it was an accomplishment that Kevin picked me for," she said.

"They always picked me for the Tarzan films because my skin was so black," he told an interviewer.

I asked my boss why he picked me for the job and he said it was because I asked for a higher salary than anyone else.

He'd picked me for his first 40-man squad in the summer and I'd played for my country the previous three seasons, so it came as a complete shock.

"I'm not an idiot — I know one of the reasons they picked me for the show is because my dad owns the firm," said Mr. Lorber, 33 and newly liberated from his $300-a-month salon habit (he had dyed his gray hair brown for years).

"I think of Vic Buckingham who picked me [for Cruyff's Ajax debut in November 1964].

My best friends stopped picking me for soccer games.

And if you are anointed successor, Dr. Sonnenfeld said, "You also need to ask, why did he pick me for this role?

"I'm very honest and after a certain time I asked permission to inform Ji because he was probably thinking 'What the... He's not even picking me for the bench'.

"I'm no lyrical stylist, you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual," says Joanna Trollope, with an almost shocking lack of literary pretension.