Sentence examples for they actually picked from inspiring English sources

He couldn't quite believe it himself but they actually picked him.

Finding a Test quality fly-half has been a conundrum for the Wallabies in the post-Larkham era, so much so they actually picked a winger, James O'Connor, at 10 against the 2013 British and Irish Lions.

Last night, history called upon Congress, and this time, they actually picked up the phone!

"They pick corn in Iowa," he says, "but they actually pick presidents here in New Hampshire".

"It's a connection that has to be made, and it is often not made in a profound way until they actually pick up a brick, grind terrazzo or trowel out some mastic".

Or did they actually pick him as a bowler and just have him down at four to confuse the Indians?" He's actually been picked just to remind the Indians how old they are in the hope that increased mortality-awareness will precipitate some dodgy strokes.

"They actually pick the music for us each week, so that's another challenge people don't really know about.

As we pulled up, Jackie leaned in and asked a crucial question: "What if they actually pick one of us?" Good point.

"It's refreshing that they've actually picked someone with a background in the field and some stature," said Bill Borwegan, occupational health and safety director for the Service Employees International Union.

Others reply that it would be better to go for touchscreen technology complete with software that would prevent voters from voting twice for a candidate, and could, like cash machines, produce two print-outs—one that would enable voters to see who they had actually picked and one for a manual recount, should it be needed.The legitimacy issueThere is, however, a bigger and more immediate question.

And, to their surprise, two other people reported so much nose picking that they had actually picked a hole right trough their nasal septum, the thin tissue that separates the left and right nostrils.