Sentence examples for picking him for from inspiring English sources

"I can't see any problem in picking him for the final".

But nobody in the audience spoke up for the young Lampard when Redknapp was being accused of picking him for no other reason than being his uncle.

In taking him straight out of the shortest format, Twenty20, and picking him for a test squad, England is betting that Morgan's temperament and coolness under pressure will enable him to adjust.

The selectors clearly thought the same because they watched him closely for the last six weeks of the season and ended up picking him for the Ashes squad ahead of several possible alternatives.

Flower said that England had not considered picking him for the fifth Test, because they felt it was too soon after his embarrassing behaviour on a night out in Brighton.

After luring Craig Bellamy to his two previous clubs, Blackburn and Manchester City, and picking him for Wales, the Fulham manager knows just how to smooth-talk the striker, and he was at it again when he was asked whether he was dusting off those previously successful overtures to his fellow Welshman.

I would pick him for final six.

I might have picked him for the final five.

Perhaps they've picked him for his fielding.

Somehow it barely changed when Kevin Keegan picked him for England.

Jack O'Connell stars in the lead in Unbroken, after Jolie personally picked him for the role.