Example sentences of "[noun] pick up the [noun pl] [coord] " 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 Judging the business to be done , Ramlal picked up the papers and went to the door .
3 ‘ 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 .
4 Lee picked up the vibes and looked with wide-eyed apprehension as I held my breath and waited .
5 My life fell apart , but he had no trouble picking up the pieces and forged ahead with a new woman .
6 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 .
7 You may need to use tweezers to pick up the pieces and position them on your egg .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Dougal picked up the papers and followed Lorton upstairs .
11 Madeleine picked up the epithets and laughed at them .
12 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 .
13 Conley picked up the passengers but as he overtook a car on Overdale Road , Park End , Middlesbrough , he lost control .
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