Example sentences of "bits [prep] paper " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , three of the Duke 's boobies from Blair Castle came riding up with bits of paper — some rubbish about the Act . |
| 2 | She looks at the bits of paper on the floor , but she do n't say nothing . |
| 3 | When I open it , a load of bits of paper fall out and flutter to the ground . |
| 4 | All I got is a ball of string and some bits of paper . |
| 5 | At first I thought they was bits of paper or summat that someone chucked in , but when the big boat went past , they all flew off . |
| 6 | But the gas has been cut off , which is an appalling piece of vindictiveness on the part of some public servant who ought to know that writers of talent have better things to do with their time than remember dates on bits of paper delivered in brown envelopes like a trade circular . |
| 7 | ‘ Dr Williams became a victim of a number of dirty tricks with nasty little jibes and bits of paper through letter boxes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is fairly easy to quantify many of the costs of marketing in both human and financial terms , the extra meetings , the extra bits of Paper are identifiable in terms of time and cash . |
| 10 | Blackadder , reluctant to show excitement , began to clip together bits of paper . |
| 11 | Many headteachers professed to despise and dislike examinations , describing certificates as ‘ mere bits of paper ’ , and teaching for specific syllabuses as ‘ cramming the head with facts ’ . |
| 12 | As a manager you should be much too busy to waste time on producing bits of paper . |
| 13 | Clearly , the huge flood of bits of paper in various forms may become totally incommensurate with the real labour process , and in conditions of a capitalist structure , this will be one of the indications of its collapse . |
| 14 | Search for it through the wodge of bits of paper and exercise books and writing pads that my dreams , all my precious dreams are scribbled on . |
| 15 | As she passed the back door she noticed that the lid had fallen off the dustbin and the fresh spring wind was playing havoc with the bits of paper and odds and ends that lay strewn on the tiled path . |
| 16 | Clutching the bits of paper . |
| 17 | ‘ How can you stand there talking about bits of paper and profits and money … money , ’ she made the word into an excrescence , ‘ when what you are doing is playing with a human soul . |
| 18 | Each time you say the sound ‘ p ’ , you should make such a little explosion of breath that the bits of paper fly off . |
| 19 | He glanced at all the bits of paper hanging higgledy-piggledy on the furniture and walls . |
| 20 | ‘ The thing about recording is , you always find bits of paper in the studio with lyrics on which people have left behind . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Most screens are still more difficult to use than most bits of paper . |
| 23 | But at Meehan 's trial this same argument — that evidence against Griffiths in the matter of the planted bits of paper should not be considered competent as evidence against Meehan — was rejected by Lord Grant ( Lord Grant being as keen to see Meehan convicted as Robertson was to see Waddell acquitted ) . |
| 24 | But mostly I 'm pushing bits of paper around . |
| 25 | Masklin found the Thing among the heap of paperclips , dust , and screwed-up bits of paper at the bottom of the bag . |
| 26 | She paused and allowed her gaze to wander round the room before she said , ‘ I hate the authorities and their bits of paper . ’ |
| 27 | Ford managers asked whether any of these bits of paper were necessary . |
| 28 | There are no bits of paper to shuffle . |
| 29 | The flight panel was designed in the days when American firms used to write the names of the instruments on bits of paper , put them in a hat , draw them out one-by-one and fill in the holes . |
| 30 | The ample panel ‘ was designed in the days when American firms used to write the name of the instruments on bits of paper , uput them in a hat , draw them out one-by-one and fill in the holes ’ . |