Example sentences of "[vb past] bit of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see , in the chapel , near one of the windows , I noticed bits of wood from a ladder which had been left there . |
| 2 | He soaked bits of cotton wool in essential oils and passed it under the noses of his patients . |
| 3 | The walls and ceilings were all painted the same insipid magnolia and there was rush matting on the floor which trapped bits of food and stuff and hurt if you walked on it with bare feet . |
| 4 | Hector the collector Collected bits of string , Collected dolls with broken heads , And rusty bells that would not ring . |
| 5 | You sometimes got bits of cat fur stuck to your toffee-apple . |
| 6 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 7 | So they took bits of Green away then ? |
| 8 | She took bits of chicken to bed with her and fell asleep while still chewing . |
| 9 | Rose picked some sea shells and rounded stones and Moran put bits of dilsk in his pocket . |
| 10 | A good cook , evidently , though somewhat vulgarized by recent service with an American family who liked bits of pineapple all over things . |
| 11 | But I was more of a dogsbody really — I was ‘ allowed ’ to help with conveyancing , but most of the time I made the coffee and did bits of typing , especially if the other secretary , Doreen , was absent . |
| 12 | Will was usually writing , and I did bits of business for him when I could . |
| 13 | My mother saved bits of string and fed the dogs on scraps . |
| 14 | Nails had to admit that it was true he slept in his clothes every night ; he had bits of straw all over him and probably smelled a bit . |
| 15 | In a land where , with a little water , anything would grow , and private gardens were a blaze of bougainvillaea and oleander , Cairo 's public gardens remained bits of desert , and the only colour in the Ezbekiya was provided once a week by the uniforms of the incredibly incompetent Egyptian regimental band . |