Example sentences of "pick up [art] piece [prep] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Picking up the pieces of his career , Hunt managed to move into F– at the end of the year . |
| 6 | 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 : |
| 7 | Picking up the pieces of your life for you . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Mark Bottomley is picking up the pieces of his life after being beaten around the head with a piece of scaffolding . |
| 10 | Donna rubbed her eyes and got to her feet , picking up the piece of paper and putting it in her handbag . |
| 11 | Athelstan accused , picking up the piece of yellow parchment . |
| 12 | Just as I was about to pick up the pieces of card once more , I stopped transfixed . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And the look in her eye says Jill Morrell and John McCarthy have managed to pick up the pieces of their love |
| 16 | In the more stable area people were returning to pick up the pieces of their lives . |
| 17 | In her motherly concerned way , she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life . |
| 18 | They were the lucky ones , able to pick up the pieces of a warm family life that they feared had gone forever . |
| 19 | Now , at this very moment , he is trying to pick up the pieces of his life after you have shattered it so cruelly — ’ |
| 20 | Trying to pick up the pieces of his life , he says his experiences have made it difficult for him to trust anybody . |
| 21 | So we have to pick up the pieces on this one . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Outlining the proposals , which will be put in writing to the Bank of England task force set up in to pick up the pieces after Taurus , Mr Pearson said the key point was that any new system should focus solely on the professional market — leaving the private shareholder with paper certificates and the existing fortnightly settlement system . |
| 24 | As proved by history , women are the ones who have to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of war . |
| 25 | THE new pack leader , Gareth Llewellyn , yesterday sounded a call to arms as a reshaped Wales prepare to pick up the pieces against France in Paris tomorrow . |
| 26 | ‘ Pick up a piece of chicken and all the flavours of that dish are on that piece of chicken . |
| 27 | This obviously absorbing hobby is a good stress reliever , ‘ It 's pure escapism and therapeutic — if I have had a frustrating day at work , the minute I get home I pick up a piece of modelling plastic and start modelling , ’ said Rosemary . |
| 28 | Would it be safe to return , pick up the pieces of her life again ? |
| 29 | One picks up a piece of donkey shit and throws it at his friend who runs off laughing . |
| 30 | ROBBIE Sometimes when I was washing the car , he had a great big Ford estate , I 'd pick up a piece of gravel and just scratch the paint a wee bit . |