Example sentences of "picking up the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hunt was not alone in picking up the broadcasts that Joyce now made from the Reichsrundfunk studios , relayed through Hamburg , Zeesen and Bremen . |
| 2 | And then me picking up the keys living here and taking it down the road ! |
| 3 | ‘ The UK felt it very important to be a member of LOFT while the ( Sizewell ) inquiry was going on , so they could demonstrate their seriousness in picking up the questions on safety ’ . |
| 4 | You become astute at picking up the vibes . ’ |
| 5 | Should you not suspend the sitting until there is someone on the Tory Benches who is capable of walking over and picking up the notes to the Minister ? |
| 6 | Harvesting of clean white worm simply involves picking up the pebbles and dipping them in a small container of cold water . |
| 7 | Picking up the feelings of the other person |
| 8 | Then began scuttering backwards and forwards like a small , frightened mouse , picking up the things they had dropped , clothes in the bedroom , toothpaste tube in the bathroom . |
| 9 | What you 'll find , you 'll find in here that it 'll just be picking up the budgies mainly . |
| 10 | ‘ I can make things , ’ said the boy , picking up the wirecutters and nicking at bits of grass with them . |
| 11 | You can also make a gorgeous looped and fringed edge simply by knitting lots more rows between picking up the stitches to make loops at least en centimetres deep ( four inches ) — or even longer as a tremendous finish for shawls and stoles , or for the edges of collars and cuffs and jackets . |
| 12 | A shortage of time proved problematical and in order to ensure that the Suhaili negotiated the fjords successfully in picking up the climbers , Knox-Johnston returned to the boat before the others . |
| 13 | And now for picking up the bits . |
| 14 | Fabia felt a nibble of excitement get to her as she ran a comb through her long golden hair , and even found that there were traces of a smile picking up the corners of her mouth . |
| 15 | ‘ They look to be part of a community and picking up the rules of the culture . |
| 16 | Panic set in on the twelfth day when , after ‘ lifting ’ milk , a lorry picking up the churns stopped , the driver beckoning Harry . |
| 17 | He has just broken one of his records deliberately and is on his knees picking up the pieces as he talks to himself . |
| 18 | It has already made behind-the-scenes preparations to share the job of picking up the pieces . |
| 19 | It is true that the recession has been putting their customers out of business , but accountants will always be kept busy picking up the pieces , or explaining in long reports why other accountancy firms got it wrong and are liable for a fortune in damages . |
| 20 | About picking up the pieces and wondering where we go from there , even though I know there are other things he 's interested in . |
| 21 | Picking up the pieces of his career , Hunt managed to move into F– at the end of the year . |
| 22 | Then the red mists cleared and she sank to her knees , picking up the pieces , moaning softly . |
| 23 | By the time I got to the end of the course , I was still picking up the pieces . |
| 24 | A senior corporation planner in the Northeast , who spends most of his time not so much planning as picking up the pieces of careless politics , recalled the principle of high-rise : |
| 25 | Though still it has all the marks of makeshift industrialisation and decline , with municipalism picking up the pieces , building endless estates of council houses . |
| 26 | Picking up the pieces of your life for you . |
| 27 | My life fell apart , but he had no trouble picking up the pieces and forged ahead with a new woman . |
| 28 | Plans to avoid picking up the pieces |
| 29 | Picking up the pieces |
| 30 | It would be nice to think their affair had meant something to him , and after Seville he was picking up the pieces of his life and had found happiness with another woman . |