He picked up a newspaper and looked through its pages.
He points at it, then turns his back and picks up a newspaper.
When the door had closed, he picked up a newspaper.
He picked up a newspaper from the seat beside him.
I picked up a newspaper to see if the world had changed in the past 48 hours.
That must mean not picking up a newspaper for about two months.
I paused at a stand and picked up a newspaper.
It is hard to pick up a newspaper these days without seeing signs of a system in trouble.
He steps outside his hotel room to pick up a newspaper.
He then picks up a newspaper sitting on the floor and looks at the date: July 3, 1954.
