Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] the piece " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Just as I was about to pick up the pieces of card once more , I stopped transfixed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So we have to pick up the pieces on this one . ’ |
| 5 | As proved by history , women are the ones who have to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of war . |
| 6 | You may be worrying about such people because you are left to pick up the pieces afterwards . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Now the players have to pick up the pieces . ’ |
| 10 | The Villa boss was still trying to pick up the pieces after his side 's shock exit from the Coca-Cola Cup in Tuesday night 's fourth round replay at Ipswich . |
| 11 | A particular type of credit and money-management education is that needed for the people who unfortunately have to pick up the pieces when consumers get into difficulties over credit use : consumer and community advisers , citizens ' advice bureaux staff , social workers , even probation officers . |
| 12 | She could only be ready to pick up the pieces if and when required . |
| 13 | It will take a fair amount of skill and cajoling to pick up the pieces . ’ |
| 14 | And the look in her eye says Jill Morrell and John McCarthy have managed to pick up the pieces of their love |
| 15 | And long-suffering wife Bet — actress Julie Goodyear — will be left to pick up the pieces . |
| 16 | In the more stable area people were returning to pick up the pieces of their lives . |
| 17 | At the age of 67 , he probably felt it was too late to try to pick up the pieces . |
| 18 | In her motherly concerned way , she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life . |
| 19 | The structure of Angevin rule in Aquitaine had been severely shaken by the Young King 's intervention , but once he was gone it was not difficult to pick up the pieces . |
| 20 | That changes how women feel about themselves and generates a web of activities to pick up the pieces kept hidden when pain is kept private . |
| 21 | They were the lucky ones , able to pick up the pieces of a warm family life that they feared had gone forever . |
| 22 | Counselling is seldom provided in such matters : the social worker is often left to pick up the pieces . |
| 23 | Lizzy would be allowed to get away with blue murder while her father was around , it was always the same , then when he swanned off again , it would be left to Kate to pick up the pieces and get back some kind of equilibrium . |
| 24 | Erm and it does make it very difficult then for Trading Standards then to pick up the pieces . |
| 25 | GPs also complain , quite rightly , that hospital staff making , for example , discharge plans for a group of patients to a new home or hostel sometimes neglect to discuss the plans with the primary care team — normally the local general practice together with its team of doctors , nurses and other specialists — yet expect the GPs to pick up the pieces when something goes wrong . |
| 26 | You may need to use tweezers to pick up the pieces and position them on your egg . |
| 27 | How they 've managed to pick up the pieces , when the most fundamental element of their relationship — trust — may have been shattered forever . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've spent the last four years trying to pick up the pieces ! ’ |
| 29 | She , Claudia , would have to try to pick up the pieces , and that would n't be easy . |
| 30 | This has happened all over the Western world and we must now start to pick up the pieces . |