Example sentences of "and [verb] bits [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | George got up and put bits of breakfast onto a plate . |
| 3 | When we came up with his problems Paul Gasgoine was having his hair elongated and having bits of hair stuck on . |
| 4 | And then there was a a young girl that would wash dishes and do bits of jobs . |
| 5 | But I was more of a dogsbody really — I was ‘ allowed ’ to help with conveyancing , but most of the time I made the coffee and did bits of typing , especially if the other secretary , Doreen , was absent . |
| 6 | Philip looked at him now holding Caspar with one hand and throwing bits of stick at the dead magpie to knock it off the branch . |
| 7 | With such a big wing and the drag of all those struts , mass-balance weights and dangling bits of rope trailing in the slipstream , the Beaver was never meant to be a record-breaker , but the normal cruise speed of 95 knots at Tony 's parsimonious power setting of 28 inches and 1,750 rpm burns a fairly frugal ( for this big engine ) eighteen gallons per hour . |