Example sentences of "pick up the [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Timber which has been properly kiln-seasoned ( which needs expensive kilns and close supervision ) is in no way worse than ‘ naturally ’ seasoned timber and indeed is rather less likely to have picked up the infections of rot during the seasoning process . |
| 2 | Picking up the feelings of the other person |
| 3 | Fabia felt a nibble of excitement get to her as she ran a comb through her long golden hair , and even found that there were traces of a smile picking up the corners of her mouth . |
| 4 | ‘ They look to be part of a community and picking up the rules of the culture . |
| 5 | Picking up the pieces of his career , Hunt managed to move into F– at the end of the year . |
| 6 | 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 : |
| 7 | Picking up the pieces of your life for you . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Mark Bottomley is picking up the pieces of his life after being beaten around the head with a piece of scaffolding . |
| 10 | This time he seems to be picking up the signals of some approaching hostility towards him . |
| 11 | She waited until it had stalked away before picking up the remains of the Geiger-Muller counter and dropping them into the holdall . |
| 12 | Chopra stared at the space station , trying to pick up the memories of a past age . |
| 13 | Expecting a word processor operator to pick up the elements of design , typography and layout skills by simply going on a two-day course is just not realistic . |
| 14 | In addition , all water authorities spent large sums on routine river maintenance on farmland ; and still more money was spent by the Ministry of Agriculture in contributing between 30 and 70 per cent of the cost of farmers held drainage , designed to pick up the benefits of lowering the water level , a result of river engineering schemes . |
| 15 | The basic framework of that popular culture was fairly obvious for urban workers not only lived close together in distinctive communities but had also begun to pick up the rudiments of an education and they had both savings and time to spare . |
| 16 | Just as I was about to pick up the pieces of card once more , I stopped transfixed . |
| 17 | Fernando Trueba 's flamboyant Euro-thriller stars Jeff Goldblum as Dan Gillis , a latter-day American in Paris attempting to pick up the pieces of a failed marriage , approached with an offer to write a screenplay for charismatic first-time director Malcolm ( Dexter Fletcher ) . |
| 18 | Consequently the daughter is left to pick up the pieces of the havoc caused by the strain of raised blood-pressure and general anxiety the next day . |
| 19 | And the look in her eye says Jill Morrell and John McCarthy have managed to pick up the pieces of their love |
| 20 | In the more stable area people were returning to pick up the pieces of their lives . |
| 21 | In her motherly concerned way , she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life . |
| 22 | They were the lucky ones , able to pick up the pieces of a warm family life that they feared had gone forever . |
| 23 | Now , at this very moment , he is trying to pick up the pieces of his life after you have shattered it so cruelly — ’ |
| 24 | Trying to pick up the pieces of his life , he says his experiences have made it difficult for him to trust anybody . |
| 25 | Husband took off his blue-tinted glasses and polished them on a silk handkerchief chosen to pick up the colours of both his suit and his tie . |
| 26 | You go on to pick up the beginnings of the Water of Nevis and the homeward leg . |
| 27 | A suitable train was scheduled to pick up the wives of the workmen along side their homes . |
| 28 | Vacuum cleaner ( linked to one — a bun ) : There is nothing particularly unusual about using a vacuum cleaner to pick up the crumbs of a bun so I decided to picture a bun decorated with a vacuum cleaner on top . |
| 29 | He was just recuperating after a fall , was overwhelmed by other commitments , and knew that to pick up the threads of work he had done 15 years before and write it up in French in only two months was a Herculean task . |
| 30 | She gradually started to pick up the threads of her life . |