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

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1 Maybe JTR helped pick up the pieces or did he watch the poor man 's agony from afar ?
2 At the age of 67 , he probably felt it was too late to try to pick up the pieces .
3 She , Claudia , would have to try to pick up the pieces , and that would n't be easy .
4 But the Retail Butcher of the Year promised to pick up the pieces and re-open as soon as possible .
5 In her motherly concerned way , she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life .
6 In the more stable area people were returning to pick up the pieces of their lives .
7 It will take a fair amount of skill and cajoling to pick up the pieces . ’
8 ‘ If we can get through to July 1 we will be okay , but at the moment people ( other clubs ) are sitting around like vultures waiting to pick up the pieces , ’ added Beller .
9 Plans to avoid picking up the pieces
10 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 ) .
11 You may be worrying about such people because you are left to pick up the pieces afterwards .
12 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 .
13 And long-suffering wife Bet — actress Julie Goodyear — will be left to pick up the pieces .
14 Counselling is seldom provided in such matters : the social worker is often left to pick up the pieces .
15 But unfortunately er it seems to fall on many deaf ears and we the Society as other many charities who deal with animals are left to pick up the pieces .
16 Two things spring to mind as and friends start to pick up the pieces and reorientate themselves .
17 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 .
18 This has happened all over the Western world and we must now start to pick up the pieces .
19 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 .
20 Niall might be free as far as the law was concerned , but he had been the injured party , the one left to pick up the pieces when the woman he must have loved walked out .
21 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 .
22 ‘ I 've spent the last four years trying to pick up the pieces ! ’
23 Now , at this very moment , he is trying to pick up the pieces of his life after you have shattered it so cruelly — ’
24 Trying to pick up the pieces of his life , he says his experiences have made it difficult for him to trust anybody .
25 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 .
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 Now the players have to pick up the pieces . ’
29 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 .
30 The R S P C A have to pick up the pieces and they 've launched a campaign to try and stop it and joining me now is Alan .
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