Sentence examples for would pick off from inspiring English sources

And that I would pick off the beetles whenever I saw them.

It was only a matter of time before he would pick off Ahmed and take the lead for good.

But as soon as he would pick off a pass on my route or beat me to a spot, he'd tell me why, explain what I'd done wrong.

Marquez, stationed on a hill with a sniper rifle, would pick off police officers as they arrived, and then emergency workers.

When it does, it is expected to be done at night by government sharpshooters, who would pick off the deer drawn to bait stations placed away from residential neighborhoods.

I would find you, when I came home in the afternoons, always at the same end of the sofa, the toes of your thin bare feet hooked around the edge of the coffee table, reading books by Isaac Asimov that you'd picked off my father's shelves in the basement.

Then they would patiently pick off all the plastic peanut things that had adhered to my hair, clothes and walls.

In the meantime, what would you pick off the shelves if you could spend a night surrounded by literary greats in Europe's largest bookshop, with over 8.5 miles of books?

Best he could do would be pick off one or two.

Obama campaign officials say that to win, Mr. Romney would have to pick off voters already committed to the president in states where Mr. Romney has never been ahead.

"I can see good reasons why Xi Jinping would like to pick off all the people around Zhou Yongkang but leave him untouched," Dr Wedeman said.