Example sentences of "[verb] to pick [adv] the piece " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the age of 67 , he probably felt it was too late to try to pick up the pieces . |
| 2 | She , Claudia , would have to try to pick up the pieces , and that would n't be easy . |
| 3 | But the Retail Butcher of the Year promised to pick up the pieces and re-open as soon as possible . |
| 4 | In her motherly concerned way , she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life . |
| 5 | In the more stable area people were returning to pick up the pieces of their lives . |
| 6 | It will take a fair amount of skill and cajoling to pick up the pieces . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | You may be worrying about such people because you are left to pick up the pieces afterwards . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And long-suffering wife Bet — actress Julie Goodyear — will be left to pick up the pieces . |
| 12 | Counselling is seldom provided in such matters : the social worker is often left to pick up the pieces . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Two things spring to mind as and friends start to pick up the pieces and reorientate themselves . |
| 15 | This has happened all over the Western world and we must now start to pick up the pieces . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've spent the last four years trying to pick up the pieces ! ’ |
| 20 | Now , at this very moment , he is trying to pick up the pieces of his life after you have shattered it so cruelly — ’ |
| 21 | Trying to pick up the pieces of his life , he says his experiences have made it difficult for him to trust anybody . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | So we have to pick up the pieces on this one . ’ |
| 24 | As proved by history , women are the ones who have to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of war . |
| 25 | Now the players have to pick up the pieces . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And the look in her eye says Jill Morrell and John McCarthy have managed to pick up the pieces of their love |
| 29 | How they 've managed to pick up the pieces , when the most fundamental element of their relationship — trust — may have been shattered forever . |