Sentence examples for were picked up in from inspiring English sources

Several suspects were picked up in prison.

Thirty-one suspects were picked up in Italy, the Italian police said.

Sergeant Cargie said the family members were picked up in Samarra on Tuesday.

The Home Office said 20 people were picked up in the search and rescue operation.

Thousands of tortured bodies were picked up in the streets of Baghdad over the next two years.

Zivkovic readily admitted that few of the people who were picked up in Operation Sabre remained in prison.

They were arrested at the border and the other two were picked up in Garissa, in northeast Kenya.

The two other men, both also Spaniards in their early 30s, were picked up in Barcelona and Valencia.

After his comments were picked up in several publications, he later added as clarification: "I wasn't comparing the two.

Among the Britons who were picked up in the wake of the attacks was a man called Jamal al-Harith.

The following morning they were picked up in a truck sent by the Pakistani authorities and deposited back at Chaman.