Example sentences of "with bits [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They want new apparatus for their labs ; they want new textbooks and new books in the library , and they find they 're having to compete with bits for microcomputers and they say well what about a good book , is n't that better ? |
| 2 | Since their mother 's death it had been run by Maggie , with bits of help from Mona and Sheila . |
| 3 | An hour later , she was sent for and went as she was , still in the apron spotted with bits of meat and potato where they had clung to her as she fought for them . |
| 4 | People hurry home with bits of meat loosely wrapped in squares of brown paper , leaving the ground littered with straw rope and abandoned baskets . |
| 5 | When nest building , he will return to his nest with bits of weed to cement it into place , even when the diver is only a few inches away . |
| 6 | It 's a blummin beautiful colour — all sort of black with bits of brown in it , and sometimes , in the sun , it looks sort of blue . |
| 7 | Men with nothing in their heads always filled them up with bits of women 's bodies . |
| 8 | Their behaviour was at times appalling ; when little they would spend long stretches of each class on the floor behind the benches , playing with bits of mercury , pricking it with needles and pen nibs , watching it slip into the coarse splintery cracks of the dusty floorboards , and forcing it out again , marvelling at the way it shrugged the dirt off its rounded shoulders . |
| 9 | Stop filling my hangar with bits of corpse . ’ |
| 10 | We , in the election and we should , and we should wait for America and try and advise America a a and , and take a view , a a it oh o otherwise madness lies , if there were people who gon na make deals with bits of Russia for this grievance we 're gon na be in a terrible state . |
| 11 | ‘ Mucking about with bits of junk , ’ said William 's nan . |
| 12 | When Orcs or Goblins march off to battle they invariably find themselves accompanied by a horde of Snotlings armed with bits of wood , broken spears , and weapons they have stolen or scrounged . |
| 13 | Other teams stood by with bits of wood pressing , like battering rams , on the pedals . |
| 14 | Group members ' perceptions of expected behaviour are concerned with bits of behaviour ( ‘ Can I make jokes in this group ? ’ ) , rather than with the behaviour as a continuing phenomenon ( ‘ Do I have a sense of humour ? ’ ) . |
| 15 | Scrumpy should come up , scrumpy should come up all clouded you know , you know with bits of sheep and er bit bits of sheep and rats and that lying about in it were they 've thrown them into the you think I 'm joking do n't you ? |
| 16 | We saved them in a big tin , and when we got to the theatre and she opened it up they were all stuck together in a fluffy lump — pear-drops , and fruit-gums and licorice torpedoes and polo mints , with bits of hair and silver paper and bus tickets sticking out . |
| 17 | There were dirt and grease stains on both palms with bits of grass stuck to the grease . |
| 18 | The skin is flecked with bits of flesh . |
| 19 | ‘ I done drawin' with bits of chalk and crayon , on me own . ’ |
| 20 | They are a lovey-dovey couple , much given , for reasons that remain obscure , to roguishly gagging each other with bits of masking tape , but tension sets in with the arrival of Clara 's best friend Lillibet from America . |
| 21 | If the English artist Mark Quinn can get his own head , cast in his own frozen blood , on display in the Saatchi Gallery in London ; if the Italian papers can be filled with agitated articles about whether ‘ a cardboard box covered in cloth , with bits of cardboard , bone glue , red pen , tempera and oil paint ’ , until recently exhibited at the Brera Academy in Milan , is or is not an authentic , therefore meaningful , work by the shamanesque German , Joseph Beuys ; if Duchamp 's own famous urinal of 1917 can grace the Palazzo Grassi in Venice as from this month , then surely there is room for those centuries-old objects of ancient devotion to be resurrected as the focus of the new cult . |
| 22 | sorry I 've got a little handout for you with bits of information and there 's also a picture of a breach presentation and this baby has got its feet right up into its high socket . |
| 23 | ‘ He came out with bits of information that were never of any use to anyone : But Ken could turn any conversation into an erudite discussion — and also make jokes about them . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , three of the Duke 's boobies from Blair Castle came riding up with bits of paper — some rubbish about the Act . |
| 25 | Although the early ‘ fire ’ of the Red Clydesiders lost much of its impetus in Westminster as the years went by , it was Maxton 's fellow social crusader David Kirkwood who was responsible for the announcement by Neville Chamberlain , then dealing with bits of paper as Chancellor of the Exchequer , that work was to be resumed on hull 534 in Clydebank . |
| 26 | ‘ The beauty of the system is that the information is there instantaneously and there is no more scrapping around with bits of paper , ’ says Mr Hodgson . |
| 27 | See , with bits of paper , pictures from magazines , glue , an old typewriter , this brain , and colours . |
| 28 | He watched warily as the little fat chap with bits of paper in his hat leapt to his feet . |
| 29 | Soldiers with bits of paper were moving the markers . |
| 30 | papers and things that you 've finished with bits of paper in the bin please . |