Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] 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 | We were once in a dug-out , I recollect : there were only owd bits o' wood on the top of it . |
| 3 | The arcs between nodes just convey bits of data . |
| 4 | ‘ The thing about recording is , you always find bits of paper in the studio with lyrics on which people have left behind . |
| 5 | He could also see bits of horns or wings down the side . |
| 6 | Paul had had some difficulty in prising the really caked bits of spaghetti off the bottom of the pan but , with a light wristy action perfected on Wall 's sausages which burst their skin , he managed to get all but the blackest fragments out . |
| 7 | His books and clothes , all his things were gone , he had even stolen bits of china and a lamp . |
| 8 | And we do n't get bits of body . " |
| 9 | You sometimes got bits of cat fur stuck to your toffee-apple . |
| 10 | It 's almost always about the sort of fringe things that happen in schools , the not strictly educational erm organisational matters about when to bring bits of equipment and which day the term 's going to finish , but very few schools put much into writing about how they teach maths , or what the children are going to be doing that term as a topic . |
| 11 | 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 . |