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 | Scrape the bits of putty out and put some filler in that will accept stain . |
| 5 | I would get a stocking with a few bits of things in when I was young and Grandma used to make a big cake with white icing , but that would be when Daddy was alive . |
| 6 | She takes the towel off me and then squats down and begins brushing bits of hair off of my face with her fingers . |
| 7 | People hurry home with bits of meat loosely wrapped in squares of brown paper , leaving the ground littered with straw rope and abandoned baskets . |
| 8 | So they took bits of Green away then ? |
| 9 | Some animals you cut turfs of little bits of turf out and you put in the , in the corner of the box and they , they lick that and amuse themselves by eating it bit by bit . |
| 10 | but there was one or two bits of tent then |
| 11 | Mm , I think it 's been cut and , they have to stretch it to get the actual bits of corn out of the middle of the seed , do n't want the husk . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It runs at the same speed — 8.33 MHz — but can handle 32 bits of data instead of 16 . |
| 15 | Just a few bits of timber really . " |
| 16 | Once again , the presence of an adult to help keep things going will make it easier for the cameraman , whose job it is to cover the most interesting bits of action wherever it may take place within the four walls of the room . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | He wanted an open relationship after a while which meant him bringing bits of trade back and then saying could n't we be just sisters ? |
| 20 | Tricks can , however , be played with this system to increase the vocabulary by joining bits of words together . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | the following morning I went out no numberplate and there were bits of car all over the street but |
| 23 | and there were bits of fibreglass all over the street |
| 24 | I climbed the barrier and scuttered down towards the wreck , dislodging bits of chalk underfoot . |
| 25 | One had made one gluing bits of straw together another one had used something else but they 'd |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Back to the bad old days when employers were so busy employing people to push bits of people round and see to inspectors that they did n't have anything to do with training an produced not one single job . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I would like to have heard of Sembene Ousmane years ago ; I could have enjoyed God 's Bits of Wood much earlier . |
| 30 | He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox . |