Example sentences of "bits of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The values recorded for each pixel are expressed on a scale of 0–63 , giving a requirement of six bits of computer storage per pixel . |
| 2 | Whole rooms of the Turk 's Head were taken over by bits of fairground waiting for the revival that would send Uncle Titch and Grandad chortling off to the local branch of the Co-op . |
| 3 | And that is nice bits of skin on there for you son . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've included a lot of ideas in the book for using up leftovers — not just the turkey but odd lumps of cheese or tired bits of fruit . ’ |
| 5 | Fairytale characters mingled with the children in the crowd , giving them toys and bits of fruit : Mary Poppins , Mother Hubbard , the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe . |
| 6 | Then there was a butcher , minus several bits of fingers , who would hold up his hand and joke , |
| 7 | I like the way he gets bits of fingers in it , you know |
| 8 | She did not like to be reminded of dead things , even flies , by the stiff , still bits of leg . |
| 9 | The time has passed quickly and it is now getting dusk , the mosquitoes have arrived and the German mortaring of the orchard has started , the first salvo exploding a short distance away causing pieces of earth to fall from the logs covering the roof of the trench , the earth and other bits of debris falling onto the now empty mess-tins . |
| 10 | The boat was blown to glory , nothing was ever found of it except for a few bits of debris , and to all intents and purposes both occupants were blown to glory with it . ’ |
| 11 | Fishermen reported hearing the explosion and bits of debris were washed up for months afterwards . |
| 12 | For a few seconds they encouraged the dogs to sniff and lick the blood — to reaffirm their hunting instinct — then , shouting and waving their arms , they sent them scurrying back to the shadows to wait for bones and other bits of debris . |
| 13 | This is the reason why toads , when they seize one end of a worm , methodically rake the length of it with their forefeet to remove any bits of sticks or earth that might be stuck to it . |
| 14 | Well bits of sticks in |
| 15 | The coach driver weaves his way through washed-out bits of road . |
| 16 | I think the real English gardens are not the manicured lawns of the home counties ( usually nurtured by someone ‘ who comes to do the garden ’ ) but precisely these little pocket handkerchief gardens and allotments ; places of little rugs and doormats and tiny bits of land for which rain is prayed , cultivated with beans and tomatoes and cabbages and roses , a respite from the rest of life , where people are autonomous , in control of something they are making . |
| 17 | Those undertaking the drainage were quick to stake their claim to the best bits of land . |
| 18 | ‘ First of all we will look at his numerical and mathematical ability which he has gained from reckoning areas from odd shaped bits of land and working out the number of trees they will take , and from his mother 's shopping expeditions , and we will reduce these to simple symbolic formulas and tables and make children learn a lot of them very quickly . |
| 19 | They 're flogging bits of land in again in the City of , flogging a piece of land next to the City Hospital for a supermarket . |
| 20 | She also owned two passenger buses , two other vehicles , and 15 different bits of land . ’ |
| 21 | So you 'd end up putting much smaller sort of bits of land |
| 22 | It came down to three grotty , scrappy bits of land that no-one since Adolf Hitler had shown any interest in … |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The polecat and its grown family will know to keep as far away from the path and its numbered posts as possible , except in the dead of night when they can sniff around and pick up some bits of Kit-Kat . |
| 25 | And being a sad old fart , I do recognise the samples — old BBC Radiophonic Workshop snatches and bits of dialogue from the Moon landings ( ‘ We 're behind you guys all the way ’ ) . |
| 26 | In the following sentences and bits of dialogue , each underlined syllable must be given an appropriate tone mark . |
| 27 | More bits of layette arrive from all parties , including a romper-suit with a picture of Horace the Happy Horse on it , which Paul furtively throws in the dustbin . |
| 28 | She was still brooding as she reached the surgery , which was situated in a superior house of dressed stone set among laurel bushes and bits of lawn . |
| 29 | After David had been there a couple of weeks , I used to go off doing odd bits of work in London , working as a journalist , although I was n't very keen on that side of my life at the time — there were other things that interested me more . |
| 30 | erm I 'll like to deal with this in a if possible in a number of separate motions so that we can deal with the various bits of work that need to be done , but I 'll call Mr first |