Example sentences of "[noun] pick up the [noun pl] [conj] " 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 | Judging the business to be done , Ramlal picked up the papers and went to the door . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Lee picked up the vibes and looked with wide-eyed apprehension as I held my breath and waited . |
| 6 | Acads pick up the pieces as GH-K start to fall apart at the seams |
| 7 | My life fell apart , but he had no trouble picking up the pieces and forged ahead with a new woman . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You may need to use tweezers to pick up the pieces and position them on your egg . |
| 10 | I have been listening in to the E-Mail for some weeks , and in fact even coming in on weekend to pick up the results and comments . |
| 11 | With this message already composed in his mind , William Joyce picked up the suitcases and led his wife from the echoing terminus of glass and iron . |
| 12 | Dougal picked up the papers and followed Lorton upstairs . |
| 13 | Madeleine picked up the epithets and laughed at them . |
| 14 | When his coolie picked up the shafts and broke into his loping stride , Joseph found he could n't look at the narrow , sweat-streaked shoulders bobbing in front of him without seeing the bleeding welts caused by the French colon 's cane . |
| 15 | Conley picked up the passengers but as he overtook a car on Overdale Road , Park End , Middlesbrough , he lost control . |