Example sentences of "[verb] up [art] piece " in BNC.

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1 He had picked up the pieces after the war and it must have come as a total shock to someone with his background to find players in his side who rocked the boat .
2 After dinner we would gossip , play cards or perhaps walk along the Dee , idly picking up a piece of driftwood here and there along the way .
3 And if there 's no money in it for me I 'm not gon na give priority to going picking up a piece of wood for a customer .
4 He has just broken one of his records deliberately and is on his knees picking up the pieces as he talks to himself .
5 It has already made behind-the-scenes preparations to share the job of picking up the pieces .
6 It is true that the recession has been putting their customers out of business , but accountants will always be kept busy picking up the pieces , or explaining in long reports why other accountancy firms got it wrong and are liable for a fortune in damages .
7 About picking up the pieces and wondering where we go from there , even though I know there are other things he 's interested in .
8 Picking up the pieces of his career , Hunt managed to move into F– at the end of the year .
9 Then the red mists cleared and she sank to her knees , picking up the pieces , moaning softly .
10 By the time I got to the end of the course , I was still picking up the pieces .
11 A senior corporation planner in the Northeast , who spends most of his time not so much planning as picking up the pieces of careless politics , recalled the principle of high-rise :
12 Though still it has all the marks of makeshift industrialisation and decline , with municipalism picking up the pieces , building endless estates of council houses .
13 Picking up the pieces of your life for you .
14 My life fell apart , but he had no trouble picking up the pieces and forged ahead with a new woman .
15 Plans to avoid picking up the pieces
16 Picking up the pieces
17 It would be nice to think their affair had meant something to him , and after Seville he was picking up the pieces of his life and had found happiness with another woman .
18 Perhaps that was why she worked the hours she did in the most gruelling part of the hospital , picking up the pieces — literally , sometimes — and putting them back together if possible , consoling distraught relatives if not .
19 Mark Bottomley is picking up the pieces of his life after being beaten around the head with a piece of scaffolding .
20 Milton Keynes is picking up the pieces and pleased that at least no one lost a life .
21 Picking up the pieces was no easy task but Connors was one of the first traders to get back on its feet , temporarily setting up shop in a portacabin .
22 Five minutes into the second half , the parry was from the boy was looking for his first goal , and it 's picking up the pieces for his second of the afternoon .
23 Donna rubbed her eyes and got to her feet , picking up the piece of paper and putting it in her handbag .
24 Athelstan accused , picking up the piece of yellow parchment .
25 It is we , after all , who have to pick up the pieces and begin again the struggle to live our lives with dignity , and in freedom from arbitrary and authoritarian policing .
26 Just as I was about to pick up the pieces of card once more , I stopped transfixed .
27 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 .
28 So we have to pick up the pieces on this one . ’
29 As proved by history , women are the ones who have to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of war .
30 You may be worrying about such people because you are left to pick up the pieces afterwards .
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