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

No	Sentence
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 has just broken one of his records deliberately and is on his knees picking up the pieces as he talks to himself .
3	It has already made behind-the-scenes preparations to share the job of picking up the pieces .
4	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 .
5	About picking up the pieces and wondering where we go from there , even though I know there are other things he 's interested in .
6	Picking up the pieces of his career , Hunt managed to move into F– at the end of the year .
7	Then the red mists cleared and she sank to her knees , picking up the pieces , moaning softly .
8	By the time I got to the end of the course , I was still picking up the pieces .
9	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 :
10	Though still it has all the marks of makeshift industrialisation and decline , with municipalism picking up the pieces , building endless estates of council houses .
11	Picking up the pieces of your life for you .
12	My life fell apart , but he had no trouble picking up the pieces and forged ahead with a new woman .
13	Plans to avoid picking up the pieces
14	Picking up the pieces
15	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 .
16	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 .
17	Mark Bottomley is picking up the pieces of his life after being beaten around the head with a piece of scaffolding .
18	Milton Keynes is picking up the pieces and pleased that at least no one lost a life .
19	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 .
20	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 .
21	Donna rubbed her eyes and got to her feet , picking up the piece of paper and putting it in her handbag .
22	Athelstan accused , picking up the piece of yellow parchment .
23	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 .
24	Just as I was about to pick up the pieces of card once more , I stopped transfixed .
25	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 .
26	So we have to pick up the pieces on this one . ’
27	As proved by history , women are the ones who have to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of war .
28	You may be worrying about such people because you are left to pick up the pieces afterwards .
29	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 ) .
30	Consequently the daughter is left to pick up the pieces of the havoc caused by the strain of raised blood-pressure and general anxiety the next day .