Example sentences of "[verb] up the [adj] piece " in BNC.
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| 1 | Juliette bent down and began picking up the smashed pieces of china . |
| 2 | The collection continues to expand , mostly by donation but a very small purchase grant enables Mr Rosoman to pick up the occasional piece at auction : he recently purchased some papier mache moulds at the Christie 's Crowther sale . |
| 3 | He smiled , then got up , moving across to fetch a small towel to mop up the ch'a , a brush to gather up the tiny pieces of broken porcelain . |
| 4 | When Sandra was nearly fourteen her mother had suddenly grabbed hold of her by the knobbly clothes-prop in the sloping garden and delivered up the one piece of advice that had been fermenting in that already greying head for decades . |
| 5 | The small group struggled up the last piece of the embankment , Teversham necessarily in the rear and Francis Morgan stumbled almost on to McLeish 's feet . |
| 6 | Athelstan picked up the yellowing piece of parchment and thrust it at them . |
| 7 | In the corner of the shed , I find the two short planks Pa uses for leaf collecting and set about scraping up the smaller pieces . |