Example sentences of "[noun] to pick up the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talk about playing golf while Rome burns ; just leave the canny Scots to pick up the bargains . |
| 2 | That changes how women feel about themselves and generates a web of activities to pick up the pieces kept hidden when pain is kept private . |
| 3 | Vacuum cleaner ( linked to one — a bun ) : There is nothing particularly unusual about using a vacuum cleaner to pick up the crumbs of a bun so I decided to picture a bun decorated with a vacuum cleaner on top . |
| 4 | Gedge was anxious to save money and went down to London on a coach to pick up the singles . |
| 5 | ‘ Nibs McGovern met that train every day with his trolley to pick up the papers and the Boland loaves that the shops got for special customers . |
| 6 | ‘ It comes every day to pick up the bodies . ’ |
| 7 | GPs also complain , quite rightly , that hospital staff making , for example , discharge plans for a group of patients to a new home or hostel sometimes neglect to discuss the plans with the primary care team — normally the local general practice together with its team of doctors , nurses and other specialists — yet expect the GPs to pick up the pieces when something goes wrong . |
| 8 | Public subsidy may therefore be desirable , but the public commitment to pick up the bills requires public monitoring to ensure that the monopolist continues to minimize costs and produce efficiently . |
| 9 | Lizzy would be allowed to get away with blue murder while her father was around , it was always the same , then when he swanned off again , it would be left to Kate to pick up the pieces and get back some kind of equilibrium . |
| 10 | It was Mellor , as junior Home Office Minister , who was left by Mrs Thatcher to pick up the pieces when the last government went badly over the top in its determination to reshape television by deregulation , irrespective of quality . |
| 11 | The assumption was that the police had been given enough information to pick up the terrorists quickly . |
| 12 | You may need to use tweezers to pick up the pieces and position them on your egg . |
| 13 | I have been listening in to the E-Mail for some weeks , and in fact even coming in on weekend to pick up the results and comments . |
| 14 | Saturday morning , and once again a fair and breezy day , so fair that I decided to give myself a holiday from writing , and go straight after breakfast to pick up the supplies I would need for the weekend . |
| 15 | The Kremlin Armoury and the Hermitage sent their trucks to pick up the shipments at customs , and to make the rounds in their respective cities . |
| 16 | I had to strain over the table to pick up the words . |
| 17 | Expecting a word processor operator to pick up the elements of design , typography and layout skills by simply going on a two-day course is just not realistic . |