Example sentences of "picking [adv] the piece " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has just broken one of his records deliberately and is on his knees picking up the pieces as he talks to himself . |
| 2 | It has already made behind-the-scenes preparations to share the job of picking up the pieces . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | About picking up the pieces and wondering where we go from there , even though I know there are other things he 's interested in . |
| 5 | Picking up the pieces of his career , Hunt managed to move into F– at the end of the year . |
| 6 | Then the red mists cleared and she sank to her knees , picking up the pieces , moaning softly . |
| 7 | By the time I got to the end of the course , I was still picking up the pieces . |
| 8 | 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 : |
| 9 | Though still it has all the marks of makeshift industrialisation and decline , with municipalism picking up the pieces , building endless estates of council houses . |
| 10 | Picking up the pieces of your life for you . |
| 11 | My life fell apart , but he had no trouble picking up the pieces and forged ahead with a new woman . |
| 12 | Plans to avoid picking up the pieces |
| 13 | Picking up the pieces |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Perhaps that was why she worked the hours she did in the most gruelling part of the hospital , picking up the pieces — literally , sometimes — and putting them back together if possible , consoling distraught relatives if not . |
| 16 | Mark Bottomley is picking up the pieces of his life after being beaten around the head with a piece of scaffolding . |
| 17 | Milton Keynes is picking up the pieces and pleased that at least no one lost a life . |
| 18 | Picking up the pieces was no easy task but Connors was one of the first traders to get back on its feet , temporarily setting up shop in a portacabin . |
| 19 | Five minutes into the second half , the parry was from the boy was looking for his first goal , and it 's picking up the pieces for his second of the afternoon . |
| 20 | Donna rubbed her eyes and got to her feet , picking up the piece of paper and putting it in her handbag . |
| 21 | Athelstan accused , picking up the piece of yellow parchment . |
| 22 | ‘ One piece of advice was to think back on the big innings I have played and think about the positive parts of those innings — picking out the pieces I really enjoyed . |