Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] bits [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 How anyone could thread bits of bread on hooks then snag the poor buggers in the crop and just reel them in I 'll never understand .
2 Next thing you could 'ear bits of wood and such — bits of the boat , like — falling into the river .
3 But Changez looked so alone — and close up I could see bits of bristle sticking out of his badly shaved face — that even I could n't laugh at him in my usual way .
4 STRAPPED for cash , a beleaguered Rupert Murdoch has promised his 150 frustrated bankers that he will sell bits of News Corporation to reduce its $8 billion of debts .
5 We can see bits of jewelry heaped in her night-table drawer .
6 She can set something or someone perfectly in context ; she can see bits of life steadily instead of trying to see it whole , when it is intolerable .
7 That 's important so we can feed bits of information to the kidnappers — even if we have to invent some . ’
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