Example sentences of "[vb base] to pick up the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the accompaniment of one of Alan Dell 's Big Band programmes Patrick told Peter Jennings about the murder and the theft of the letters , the switched bodies and his decision to come out to Romania and try to pick up the scent of John and Angela Bonnard . |
| 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 | The students have to pick up the threads of the conversation , to make sense of it , and to make a contribution — if they wish — in their own way . |
| 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 . |