Example sentences of "picking up the [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Picking up the feelings of the other person |
| 2 | Fabia felt a nibble of excitement get to her as she ran a comb through her long golden hair , and even found that there were traces of a smile picking up the corners of her mouth . |
| 3 | â They look to be part of a community and picking up the rules of the culture . |
| 4 | Picking up the pieces of his career , Hunt managed to move into Fâ at the end of the year . |
| 5 | 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 : |
| 6 | Picking up the pieces of your life for you . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mark Bottomley is picking up the pieces of his life after being beaten around the head with a piece of scaffolding . |
| 9 | This time he seems to be picking up the signals of some approaching hostility towards him . |
| 10 | She waited until it had stalked away before picking up the remains of the Geiger-Muller counter and dropping them into the holdall . |