Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] the piece " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whimper like a whipped puppy , Jay , have a drink and pick up the pieces . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've spent years reconstructing , integrating , analysing and just plain digging through mud ; cataloguing alien ruins square centimetre by square centimetre and sticking together the pieces of damaged artifacts to form implausible shapes . |
| 3 | The sunlight shone through the glass of the conservatory and showed up the piece of gold in his front tooth , the little , gingery hairs in the folds of his red cheeks , the grey ones in his drooping moustache . |
| 4 | THIS is one of those traumatic American dramas that aims to put you through the emotional mangle and spit out the pieces on the other side . |
| 5 | Now Houghton reached for the first file and took out the piece of card that bore the fingerprints of a possible match . |
| 6 | She was looking resolutely away , so that Tug could feel what an effort it took her not to bend down and pick up the pieces . |
| 7 | Slowly and deliberately , he rose from his chair and picked up the piece of rope from the floor . |
| 8 | It was said that on the first occasion that a female student ‘ scrubbed ’ with him he was reaching the end of a long case and held up the piece of cat-gut slung under the ureter ( to identify it and keep it safe during the dissection ) , saying ‘ Cut ! ’ |