Example sentences of "[v-ing] bits [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to keep on signing bits of paper which were meant to list my property , but I had no opportunity to read anything . |
| 2 | He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're mad for riding in machines with whirring bits of metal pushing them along , yet you 're worried about sitting on a perfectly natural bird . ’ |
| 4 | We 'd come full circle round the Golf , our feet crunching bits of windscreen . |
| 5 | one time they had this big trolley of all smashed up Easter eggs and me and my mum kept running up to it and nicking bits of chocolate |
| 6 | ‘ It will be a slightly odd version of the play , incorporating bits of Henry VI . ’ |
| 7 | This was the case in their technique of writing or drawing on photos , or photographing bits of reality , like J.A . |
| 8 | This was the case in their technique of writing or drawing on photos , or photographing bits of reality — like J. A. Boiffard 's telescopically enlarged shot of a big toe ( Le Gros Orteil ) — which seem primarily to be ( in this case phallic ) signifiers . |
| 9 | She takes the towel off me and then squats down and begins brushing bits of hair off of my face with her fingers . |
| 10 | Maxim had finished his crab and was pushing bits of salad around his plate trying to identify them in the dimness and listening with half-turned head to a tenor saxophonist who had joined the guitar to swap phrases of the Beale Street Blues . |
| 11 | But mostly I 'm pushing bits of paper around . |
| 12 | And er James , triplet he 's pres er pushing bits of paper and I should imagine there 's pens and crayons and all kinds down there . |
| 13 | Barry can remember horrific violence when he was at school — a Teddy boy inserting bits of razor into a bicycle chain and then wrapping it round someone 's face . |
| 14 | I just sat there on that bloody Sag Bag picking bits of Farley 's out of the corduroy and wishing it would open up and the polystyrene granules would swallow me ! |
| 15 | There would be one or two stalls selling bits of radios , farm machinery and so on , but I had never felt inclined to rummage in them . |
| 16 | They were selling bits of turf to keep going . |
| 17 | Lee was pulling bits of twig through the camouflage net and going to the entrance all the time to look at Caspar . |
| 18 | ‘ There were scores and scores of labourers filing bits of metal ; and the teacher said , ‘ If you do really , really well and pass your O levels , this is where you will go ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Welcome to borstal , ’ she added , spraying bits of crisp out of her mouth like snowflakes . |
| 20 | Breaking bits of concrete . |
| 21 | She dabbed at the wound , removing bits of grit , revealing a number of oozing scratches . |
| 22 | When we came up with his problems Paul Gasgoine was having his hair elongated and having bits of hair stuck on . |
| 23 | ( Shortly after the rusks were banned for having bits of metal in them , the factory closed — and what did dear Phyllis do then , poor thing ? ) |
| 24 | Yeah having bits of things and then saying I 've had enough and then having something else you know ? |
| 25 | Tricks can , however , be played with this system to increase the vocabulary by joining bits of words together . |
| 26 | Did you not find that er the work them became very sort of com compartmentalized if you like , very specific people were doing bits of jobs rather than a feeling that you were all part of a much larger thing ? |
| 27 | These white seagulls Hash past , like flashing bits of light , and the traffic in the background rumbling away . |
| 28 | As a manager you should be much too busy to waste time on producing bits of paper . |
| 29 | I climbed the barrier and scuttered down towards the wreck , dislodging bits of chalk underfoot . |
| 30 | One had made one gluing bits of straw together another one had used something else but they 'd |