Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] pieces " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often it can take a little while to melt down the pieces of ice to make drinking water . |
| 2 | He has just broken one of his records deliberately and is on his knees picking up the pieces as he talks to himself . |
| 3 | Whimper like a whipped puppy , Jay , have a drink and pick up the pieces . |
| 4 | Hong Kong Special Report : After the traumas , the colony picks up the pieces |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | From their letter , Mr Scott and Mr Waterman would have people believe that they alone will ‘ pick up the pieces ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | SUFFERING from hangovers after their intoxicating victory on Saturday night , Hungarian reformers and their temporary allies were split last night on the question of where the new Socialist Party should pick up the pieces , as a marginal hardline faction announced the foundation of the Hungarian Communist Party . |
| 9 | Quickly they swept up the pieces and hid them away , wondering how they would replace the plate without being found out . |
| 10 | Can they pick up the pieces ? |
| 11 | It has already made behind-the-scenes preparations to share the job of picking up the pieces . |
| 12 | She was looking resolutely away , so that Tug could feel what an effort it took her not to bend down and pick up the pieces . |
| 13 | Just as I was about to pick up the pieces of card once more , I stopped transfixed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was Mellor , as junior Home Office Minister , who was left by Mrs Thatcher to pick up the pieces when the last government went badly over the top in its determination to reshape television by deregulation , irrespective of quality . |
| 16 | From nowhere a swarm of fish appeared who promptly gobbled up the pieces . |
| 17 | So we have to pick up the pieces on this one . ’ |
| 18 | After a pause Alison said , ‘ Do you think it will pass and you 'll pick up the pieces ? ’ |
| 19 | As proved by history , women are the ones who have to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of war . |
| 20 | You may be worrying about such people because you are left to pick up the pieces afterwards . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | Maybe JTR helped pick up the pieces or did he watch the poor man 's agony from afar ? |
| 23 | You picked up the pieces and went on . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | About picking up the pieces and wondering where we go from there , even though I know there are other things he 's interested in . |
| 26 | Who picks up the pieces ? ’ |
| 27 | The ball over the top , the low firm crosses driven in so that he can pick up the pieces . |
| 28 | Now the players have to pick up the pieces . ’ |
| 29 | The Villa boss was still trying to pick up the pieces after his side 's shock exit from the Coca-Cola Cup in Tuesday night 's fourth round replay at Ipswich . |
| 30 | 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 . |