Example sentences of "[noun] pick up the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am careful not to leave even the smallest scrap of yarn lying around as mother birds pick up the pieces and use them for lining their nests . |
| 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 | Talk about playing golf while Rome burns ; just leave the canny Scots to pick up the bargains . |
| 4 | Though still it has all the marks of makeshift industrialisation and decline , with municipalism picking up the pieces , building endless estates of council houses . |
| 5 | The minibus picks up the Inspirals party outside the hotel in Japantown , San Francisco at 10.30 the next morning , a Sunday . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Vacuum cleaner ( linked to one — a bun ) : There is nothing particularly unusual about using a vacuum cleaner to pick up the crumbs of a bun so I decided to picture a bun decorated with a vacuum cleaner on top . |
| 8 | Gedge was anxious to save money and went down to London on a coach to pick up the singles . |
| 9 | ‘ Still , ’ said Sam , ‘ they let the dossers pick up the ones they throw out . ’ |
| 10 | Judging the business to be done , Ramlal picked up the papers and went to the door . |
| 11 | Mr. Crowther picked up the papers in front of him and set them down again very neatly . |
| 12 | The sun picked up the colours of a girl 's dress . |
| 13 | ‘ Nibs McGovern met that train every day with his trolley to pick up the papers and the Boland loaves that the shops got for special customers . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Panic set in on the twelfth day when , after ‘ lifting ’ milk , a lorry picking up the churns stopped , the driver beckoning Harry . |
| 16 | ‘ It comes every day to pick up the bodies . ’ |
| 17 | If the person picks up the keys , then he or she can become the next sleeping beauty . |
| 18 | Since the IPG approaches its information items in the widest possible context , liaison with researchers helps its writers pick up the concerns of other agencies and enables them to include other sources of information and views . |
| 19 | The sentry picked up the tags , stared at the photos and at our faces . |
| 20 | Abruptly Aggie picked up the handles of the flat-cart , then almost growling ‘ Come on ! ’ she pushed it along the road , the child trotting beside her now . |
| 21 | Lee picked up the vibes and looked with wide-eyed apprehension as I held my breath and waited . |
| 22 | Jane dug the garden as Lee picked up the weeds . |
| 23 | Acads pick up the pieces as GH-K start to fall apart at the seams |
| 24 | My life fell apart , but he had no trouble picking up the pieces and forged ahead with a new woman . |
| 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 | Public subsidy may therefore be desirable , but the public commitment to pick up the bills requires public monitoring to ensure that the monopolist continues to minimize costs and produce efficiently . |
| 27 | Gabriel picked up the tools . |
| 28 | The children in turn pick up the corks in their mouths and dip them into the paint . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |