Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] up the pieces " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two things spring to mind as and friends start to pick up the pieces and reorientate themselves . |
| 2 | THE new pack leader , Gareth Llewellyn , yesterday sounded a call to arms as a reshaped Wales prepare to pick up the pieces against France in Paris tomorrow . |
| 3 | It is we , after all , who have to pick up the pieces and begin again the struggle to live our lives with dignity , and in freedom from arbitrary and authoritarian policing . |
| 4 | So we have to pick up the pieces on this one . ’ |
| 5 | As proved by history , women are the ones who have to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of war . |
| 6 | Now the players have to pick up the pieces . ’ |
| 7 | A particular type of credit and money-management education is that needed for the people who unfortunately have to pick up the pieces when consumers get into difficulties over credit use : consumer and community advisers , citizens ' advice bureaux staff , social workers , even probation officers . |
| 8 | The R S P C A have to pick up the pieces and they 've launched a campaign to try and stop it and joining me now is Alan . |