The boy picked up a small piece of steel and a workman's tool,a hammer.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

He picked up a book of Plath's poems and began to read.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

Keesh picked up a thin piece of whalebone.

VOA: special.2011.03.12

"I picked up a Reader's Digest, and there I read that for $100 million the World Health Organization had eradicated small pox."

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

And he picked up Dan'l and turned him upside down and out came a whole lot of bullets.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

In a moment, his two friends had picked him up and carried him into the bedroom.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

The WWF itself had picked it up from a 1999 magazine article based on a phone interview with an Indian scientist.

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

But long before Fiedler picked up the baton, the Boston Pops had carved out a niche, bringing light orchestral music to wide audiences.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

Zee TV,a satellite television company in Mumbai, has picked up the screening rights for Priya.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

"Whatever they did,didn't' work." Stogel says he picked up his recalled 2009 Camry from a dealer after getting repairs to fix a sticky gas pedal.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

Wearing a Canada team sweatshirt, a woolen cap and sunglasses, she picked up the gold medal, snapped a photograph and turned over the prize to see the back.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16