31.   She did not even look to pick her way round thistles in the long grass.

32.   As he picked his way through the traffic, heading south, Rory wondered if it was as plain as that.

33.   They had to pick their way around the rest of it, because the floors were mainly gone, although some big holes still had carpet laid across them.

34.   A young man picks his way along the High Street.

35.   I put the list away in my file, lock the room and carefully pick my way down the little staircase.

36.   His dark eyes picked their way with humiliating slowness over every visible inch of her, from the top of her head to the tips of her toes.

37.   They had exchanged the slow passage through the forest for picking their way over the rocks and boulders that littered the banks of the upper reaches of the river.

38.   A few sad, oily sheep pick their way through the debris of rusting pipework and discarded machinery, laced with a sulphurous stink.

39.   Amy Johnson picked her way through a fair devoted to summer camps.

40.   An anguished woman picks her way through a pile of blood-splattered corpses.