Sentence examples for picking up then from inspiring English sources

Bend down to pretend you're picking up, then slip the wild card draw four into your deck.

(A red rotary phone rings. The servant picks up, then covers the mouthpiece).

If no one picks up, then everyone pays for themselves.

"You'll pick up then, you'll see".

"If they had been picked up then, I think I would have been quite ruthless about pursuing it".

But if sales do not pick up, then revenue can decline further, forcing more cuts in workers or wages.

The time with the kitchen knife — the one you picked up, then put down, shaking, saying, Get out.

"I got over the ball, the wind picked up, then it would die, and the same thing would keep happening.

Carney points to business investment -- if that doesn't pick up, then the recovery could disappoint, he says.

Year after year, they had intended to sell the place, waiting first for the market to pick up, then worrying about dishonest agents.

Inspector Morse box sets are watched, jokey insults are exchanged, and food is dropped on the floor, picked up, then dropped again.