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

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1	‘ I 've spent years reconstructing , integrating , analysing and just plain digging through mud ; cataloguing alien ruins square centimetre by square centimetre and sticking together the pieces of damaged artifacts to form implausible shapes .
2	If the damage can be repaired or invisibly mended , using perhaps a piece of material from a part of the armchair which is not normally in view , then the cost of repair would be paid , less any policy excess applicable .
3	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 .
4	He drew out a piece of parchment from beneath his cloak and Cranston almost snatched it from his hand .
5	And this is why your first attempt to conduct a great work will often end up as a disaster , because you do n't know where the real points of stress are , you do n't know how the piece is distributed .
6	She listened for Patrick 's cry but the only noise was from the Kenny children as they squabbled over a piece of bread , and Maggie was sitting on the bed with the baby sucking in vain at her scrawny breast .
7	Funnel crushed food into the tea strainer and shake over a piece of paper
8	Break off a piece of pastel about half an inch long , holding the pastel between forefinger and thumb , and drag the side of the pastel across the paper , applying firm pressure as you do so .
9	Cut off a piece of plant just below the place where the leaves join the stem .
10	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 .
11	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 .
12	He has just broken one of his records deliberately and is on his knees picking up the pieces as he talks to himself .
13	It has already made behind-the-scenes preparations to share the job of picking up the pieces .
14	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 .
15	About picking up the pieces and wondering where we go from there , even though I know there are other things he 's interested in .
16	Picking up the pieces of his career , Hunt managed to move into F– at the end of the year .
17	Then the red mists cleared and she sank to her knees , picking up the pieces , moaning softly .
18	By the time I got to the end of the course , I was still picking up the pieces .
19	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 :
20	Though still it has all the marks of makeshift industrialisation and decline , with municipalism picking up the pieces , building endless estates of council houses .
21	Picking up the pieces of your life for you .
22	My life fell apart , but he had no trouble picking up the pieces and forged ahead with a new woman .
23	Plans to avoid picking up the pieces
24	Picking up the pieces
25	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 .
26	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 .
27	Mark Bottomley is picking up the pieces of his life after being beaten around the head with a piece of scaffolding .
28	Milton Keynes is picking up the pieces and pleased that at least no one lost a life .
29	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 .
30	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 .