The young birds cry out for food, and the parents returning from the sea manage to pick out their own amid a mass of look-alikes.
Very often husbands would patronise my boutique and pick out something for the little lady and, in passing, pick out something for themselves.
Madame Defarge herself picked out the pattern on her sleeve with her toothpick, and saw and heard something inaudible and invisible a long way off.
And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock.
Ameobi skipped away down the left in the 39th minute and tried to pick out Shearer with a cross but his delivery was cut out by goalkeeper Jussi J.