Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [verb] up the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would stand on the doorstep waiting to pick up the children with my ex-wife sneering at me . |
| 2 | Instead we 've spent the last 60 or so years trying to live up the likes of Jean Harlow , Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've spent the last four years trying to pick up the pieces ! ’ |
| 4 | Fernando Trueba 's flamboyant Euro-thriller stars Jeff Goldblum as Dan Gillis , a latter-day American in Paris attempting to pick up the pieces of a failed marriage , approached with an offer to write a screenplay for charismatic first-time director Malcolm ( Dexter Fletcher ) . |
| 5 | Instead of people having to read up the words in a dictionary it 's gon na be a sound dictionary . |
| 6 | Any number of vehicles trying to pick up the finishers will have great difficulty parking and will probably cause a major obstruction . |
| 7 | She had enough on her hands trying to bring up the boys , and the simplest expedient would be to get the little girl down to Frome , where her deceased husband 's sister and brother-in-law , William and Sarah Chinnock , could provide her with a decent upbringing . |
| 8 | ‘ If we can get through to July 1 we will be okay , but at the moment people ( other clubs ) are sitting around like vultures waiting to pick up the pieces , ’ added Beller . |