Example sentences of "[be] [verb] bits [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're flogging bits of land in again in the City of , flogging a piece of land next to the City Hospital for a supermarket . |
| 2 | ‘ But if you 're quoting bits of Henry VI Part One , I 'd have thought ‘ Unbidden guests are often welcomest when they are gone ’ very appropriate . ’ |
| 3 | But mostly I 'm pushing bits of paper around . |
| 4 | McDunn comes in as I 'm chasing bits of quiche around my plate with my fork . |
| 5 | They were selling bits of turf to keep going . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | ‘ If you look at something like raising a purchase order , what it tends to involve is combining bits of paper from different departments and only at the very end is a computer entry made — which is not a massive improvement on all-paper systems , ’ said . |
| 8 | He came into the hangar where Preston was gluing bits of plane together and told him he was taking one of the new chaps up for a spin . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Lee was pulling bits of twig through the camouflage net and going to the entrance all the time to look at Caspar . |