Example sentences of "bits of [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A good cook , evidently , though somewhat vulgarized by recent service with an American family who liked bits of pineapple all over things .
2 She takes the towel off me and then squats down and begins brushing bits of hair off of my face with her fingers .
3 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 .
4 It runs at the same speed — 8.33 MHz — but can handle 32 bits of data instead of 16 .
5 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 .
6 the following morning I went out no numberplate and there were bits of car all over the street but
7 and there were bits of fibreglass all over the street
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 It ploughed into the ground scattering debris and bits of aluminium all over the place .
11 ‘ Welcome to borstal , ’ she added , spraying bits of crisp out of her mouth like snowflakes .
12 Starke was still talking , taking bits of paper out of the drawers in the desk and showing them to Grout , but Steven was n't looking or listening .
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