Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] bits [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My voice had risen a good half-octave and my hands were waggling around on the end of my arms as though I was trying to shake off bits of Sellotape . |
| 2 | The guillotine was not decided at 9.55 pm last night , when the first frisson went through the Government Front Bench and Ministers began to pass around bits of paper and to consult properly , but earlier . |
| 3 | What would he be now if he had become , say , a civil servant allotting housing finance , or a policeman , poring over bits of hair and skin and thumbball prints ? |
| 4 | ‘ Ma must have taken to cooking up bits of food in her bedroom , ’ Algy said when Lady Grubb was doing something to the plants and she and Guy were alone with father in his study . |
| 5 | In his first two years he taught only bits of course but later , when the well-remembered Stuart Armstrong left to take up a post in Australia , he became responsible for teaching Soil Mechanics , although he continued to teach ‘ everything but hydraulics ’ . |
| 6 | The Bishop quotes , with approval , G. Bennett on spider webs : It is impossible for one who has watched the work for many hours to have any doubt that neither the present spiders of this species nor their ancestors were ever the architects of the web or that it could conceivably have been produced step by step through random variation ; it would be as absurd to suppose that the intricate and exact proportions of the Parthenon were produced by piling together bits of marble . |
| 7 | He caressed her body , peered at her face , used his axe to snick off bits of twig , loose bark , the bulging scars of old wounds . |
| 8 | Stop pretending that pension commitments in the next century can be met by piling up bits of paper now , and restore the system to its original pay-as-you-go basis by cutting payroll taxes . |
| 9 | This builds up the muscles which locate the knee joint , helping to stop it moving above and grinding up bits of cartilage . |
| 10 | With his own production company , Crucial Films , funded by the Beeb and with ‘ all manner of people dropping off bits of writing ’ , it seems he may have a good chance . |
| 11 | If it 's from Aubrey Debrace , or that other girl , Alice , he opens it straight away and reads out bits of news to me . |
| 12 | Then we did n't achieve , we 're did n't produce a work plan or organiser , we went straight in , people were hacking out bits of papers , you know , it ended up as a big pile of words you know . |
| 13 | All the while she talked , she gesticulated with one small , thin hand and with the other tore off bits of bread , dipping them in the honey butter and tilting them under her mask into her mouth . |
| 14 | Blackadder , reluctant to show excitement , began to clip together bits of paper . |
| 15 | All they seem to want to do is to dig up bits about Paul 's past . |
| 16 | And he still picked up bits of stuff . |