Example sentences of "[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 | There 's element of everything , there 's a straight f—in' ska piece in one song , and I 've lifted bits from Phillip Glass and Enya and Twin Peaks . |
| 3 | The trust fund holds bits of Treasury paper ; spending continues as before ; yet the budget deficit seems to shrink . |
| 4 | He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're mad for riding in machines with whirring bits of metal pushing them along , yet you 're worried about sitting on a perfectly natural bird . ’ |
| 6 | We 'd come full circle round the Golf , our feet crunching bits of windscreen . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | ‘ It will be a slightly odd version of the play , incorporating bits of Henry VI . ’ |
| 9 | The interviewer who changes questions , who adds bits to questions , who generally messes about with the schedule , is not being clever , he/she is being a bad fieldworker . |
| 10 | This was the case in their technique of writing or drawing on photos , or photographing bits of reality , like J.A . |
| 11 | This was the case in their technique of writing or drawing on photos , or photographing bits of reality — like J. A. Boiffard 's telescopically enlarged shot of a big toe ( Le Gros Orteil ) — which seem primarily to be ( in this case phallic ) signifiers . |
| 12 | Sorry , I should explain to the committee that I was informed that the secretary who normally does the minutes for the half past one was sick , and had , she 'd been sent home by her doctor at lunch time , so I came back from lunch and had to come straight into committee , and I do apologize if I have missed bits of paper or whatever , I 've gathered up everything I could , but that might well be one of the things that I 've left behind . |
| 13 | She takes the towel off me and then squats down and begins brushing bits of hair off of my face with her fingers . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But mostly I 'm pushing bits of paper around . |
| 16 | And er James , triplet he 's pres er pushing bits of paper and I should imagine there 's pens and crayons and all kinds down there . |
| 17 | Indeed it had never occurred to him to sell bits of Hatherley to keep the paper going any more than he had considered using the profits of the paper , in the years when there were some , to pay for the substantial renovation the house had required . |
| 18 | Barry can remember horrific violence when he was at school — a Teddy boy inserting bits of razor into a bicycle chain and then wrapping it round someone 's face . |
| 19 | George got up and put bits of breakfast onto a plate . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I just sat there on that bloody Sag Bag picking bits of Farley 's out of the corduroy and wishing it would open up and the polystyrene granules would swallow me ! |
| 22 | You see , in the chapel , near one of the windows , I noticed bits of wood from a ladder which had been left there . |
| 23 | Grimma picked herself up from the plank and nervously started to pick bits of rust off herself . |
| 24 | There would be one or two stalls selling bits of radios , farm machinery and so on , but I had never felt inclined to rummage in them . |
| 25 | They were selling bits of turf to keep going . |
| 26 | ‘ In case it comes in handy , you know , like you save bits of string and wrapping paper . ’ |
| 27 | He soaked bits of cotton wool in essential oils and passed it under the noses of his patients . |
| 28 | I do n't paint from dark to light or light to dark in any special sequence , but as my eyes flit over the paper I add bits of colour here and there . |
| 29 | ‘ Ellen , she wears bits of jeans and bits of T-shirts like the rest of the group . |
| 30 | ‘ I intend to buy bits of produce and talk to them . |