Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] up the piece " in BNC.
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1 | Maybe JTR helped pick up the pieces or did he watch the poor man 's agony from afar ? |
2 | But the Retail Butcher of the Year promised to pick up the pieces and re-open as soon as possible . |
3 | In her motherly concerned way , she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life . |
4 | He had picked up the pieces after the war and it must have come as a total shock to someone with his background to find players in his side who rocked the boat . |
5 | 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 . |