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I don't mean just pressing the E (activate) button to open containers/bodies, but actually picking things up and moving them around, as you could in Oblivion, etc.
Took me ages to figure it out! It doesn't say in the manual. In case anyone else has wondered about it:

You do use the E key, but you need to watch your pointer. As you hover it over a movable item, the four little points move apart from each other; stab and hold the E key and the little points pinch together. Still holding down the E, move the mouse in the direction you want the item to go, and at the same time use the W, A, D, or S button to move yourself along with it. It's a bit tricky - not like in Oblivion, where it is easy-peasy - but it doesn't take long to get the hang of it. (Once you have cottoned on to it, that is! )

I had to re-up on this too I'm playing the xbox version and before I was moving bodies without knowing how I was doin it. Apparently rather than just pressing 'A', you have to hold it down to move things. For Oblivion, it's the same button on Skyrim that allows you to sprint, odd how I remember that.