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Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [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	He drew out a piece of parchment from beneath his cloak and Cranston almost snatched it from his hand .
3	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 .
4	Funnel crushed food into the tea strainer and shake over a piece of paper
5	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 .
6	Cut off a piece of plant just below the place where the leaves join the stem .
7	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 .
8	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 .
9	He has just broken one of his records deliberately and is on his knees picking up the pieces as he talks to himself .
10	It has already made behind-the-scenes preparations to share the job of picking up the pieces .
11	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 .
12	About picking up the pieces and wondering where we go from there , even though I know there are other things he 's interested in .
13	Picking up the pieces of his career , Hunt managed to move into F– at the end of the year .
14	Then the red mists cleared and she sank to her knees , picking up the pieces , moaning softly .
15	By the time I got to the end of the course , I was still picking up the pieces .
16	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 :
17	Though still it has all the marks of makeshift industrialisation and decline , with municipalism picking up the pieces , building endless estates of council houses .
18	Picking up the pieces of your life for you .
19	My life fell apart , but he had no trouble picking up the pieces and forged ahead with a new woman .
20	Plans to avoid picking up the pieces
21	Picking up the pieces
22	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 .
23	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 .
24	Mark Bottomley is picking up the pieces of his life after being beaten around the head with a piece of scaffolding .
25	Milton Keynes is picking up the pieces and pleased that at least no one lost a life .
26	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 .
27	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 .
28	Donna rubbed her eyes and got to her feet , picking up the piece of paper and putting it in her handbag .
29	Athelstan accused , picking up the piece of yellow parchment .
30	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 .