Example sentences of "bits of [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ So many separate bits of evidence all pointing in the same direction . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | A good cook , evidently , though somewhat vulgarized by recent service with an American family who liked bits of pineapple all over things . |
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 | So they took bits of Green away then ? |
6 | but there was one or two bits of tent then |
7 | She did not weep silently like her mother in a web of hands and hair , but noisily , like a child , with great sobs and huge tears that splashed down on to the brown wool of her skirt to which little bits of hay still clung from the afternoon . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | It runs at the same speed — 8.33 MHz — but can handle 32 bits of data instead of 16 . |
10 | Just a few bits of timber really . " |
11 | No aquarium for Loricariids should therefore be without its bits of bogwood possibly for food and certainly to give the fish a base ; if more than one cat is stocked , several pieces may be necessary to give the Loricariids a natural home . |
12 | 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 ? |
13 | Tricks can , however , be played with this system to increase the vocabulary by joining bits of words together . |
14 | Do n't need , I mean if we get somebody in to do that , we 'd have somebody in do little bits of repairs here and there , but generally it 's alright . |
15 | the following morning I went out no numberplate and there were bits of car all over the street but |
16 | and there were bits of fibreglass all over the street |
17 | I climbed the barrier and scuttered down towards the wreck , dislodging bits of chalk underfoot . |
18 | One had made one gluing bits of straw together another one had used something else but they 'd |
19 | Nails had to admit that it was true he slept in his clothes every night ; he had bits of straw all over him and probably smelled a bit . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | I would like to have heard of Sembene Ousmane years ago ; I could have enjoyed God 's Bits of Wood much earlier . |
22 | He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox . |
23 | They seem to have a reasonably clear meaning , and have the merit of linking diverse bits of information together in a coherent pattern , and it provides an explanation for the content of Judaism and Christianity especially , and may have some application for understanding and explaining the ritual developments in Hinduism and Buddhism , as will be illustrated in Chapter 5 . |
24 | A nerve jiggled at the corner of Meredith 's mouth because she was beginning to piece small bits of information together and was coming up with a heap of worries . |
25 | It ploughed into the ground scattering debris and bits of aluminium all over the place . |
26 | And then , when it had vanished , it appeared suddenly above their heads , an astounding burst hanging there , myriads of bits of light yet together , a unity . |
27 | If they 've had three bits of beef then there would have been . |
28 | If he needed to revise his original idea he made use of Process white or cut holes and glued new bits of paper together . |
29 | There 's bits of paper everywhere you look . |
30 | I want to give you I 'm going to give each of you , yeah if you just wan na just clear up some of the bits of paper then that 's alright . |