Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] piece " in BNC.
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| 1 | Purely on the strength of a chance remark by my retailer , who thought the symptoms could have been caused by metal toxicity , the tank was stripped down piece by piece . |
| 2 | He was an enigma , a challenge , a man-shaped outline of a jigsaw puzzle , to be filled in piece by piece until a complete portrait could be seen . |
| 3 | She sat with the chicken pot in her lap , tearing off pieces of the bird and handing them round . |
| 4 | With with dredged up pieces of rocks bigger than that erm machine , bigger than yes , that one yeah . |
| 5 | held-a football club as occupier should foresee that crowd could become unruly and break off pieces of concrete which if thrown could cause injury to visitors in this case on duty police officers . |
| 6 | It seemed years , ages later when she found herself picking up pieces of broken plate and wiping fried egg off the tiles — so that Gran , when she returned , would find the kitchen tidy . |
| 7 | No , but I 'm not , I 'm not in business to run around picking up pieces of wood |
| 8 | Cut out pieces to fit the sides and ends of the house — measure the dimensions of the cake to check that the gelatine icing rectangles are the same size . |
| 9 | Measure the height and width of each side of the bus — front , back , two sides and roof — and cut out pieces of non-stick paper to the same dimensions . |
| 10 | Measure the height and width of each of the sides of the cake ( including the two short ends ) , and cut out pieces of non-stick paper to the same dimensions . |
| 11 | Measure the height and width of the two roof sides and cut out pieces of non-stick paper in the same way . |
| 12 | In order of seniority , they are handed fragments or allowed to tear off pieces . |
| 13 | She tried to regroup her scattered brain tissue , pulling back pieces of her mind before they were lost for ever . |
| 14 | It may throw up pieces of plasterwork , shellwork and panelling , fragments of windows and evidence of colour schemes . |
| 15 | However , the success of recent policy initiatives can only be fully met if farmers find it their own interests to plant up pieces of land in such a way as to achieve both timber production and environmental improvement . |
| 16 | Bobo was breaking off pieces of the banana , rolling them around with her lips . |
| 17 | That was very planned , and , and on that subject of planned and set up clips , I know er it may be tempting for people to do that , er but can I just say that we , you just get a gut reaction for anything that 's planned , it might even be cleverly done , but you ca n't actually rationalise it , you just know if something 's not , not real , not , not accidental , so er I would n't really encourage people to , to do set up pieces . |
| 18 | IN THE SAME WEEK : Sir Alf Ramsey 's England footballers , World Cup winners nine months earlier , were beaten 3–2 by Scotland at Wembley , prompting ‘ hordes of tartan-clad Scots to pour over Wembley 's barriers to dance on England 's grave , kiss the centre spot and dig up pieces of turf as souvenirs . ’ |
| 19 | The weathervane , a stainless steel fox , was removed for safe keeping , the children pulled off pieces of the garlands for souvenirs and the hole in the road was filled in . |
| 20 | The user can also cut out pieces from the graphics and add to the graphics in any form . |
| 21 | Hypertext is not concerned with paper at all , so there is no possibility of students handing in pieces of paper for assessment . |
| 22 | One walks between the banks that show where the houses stood , marking how blocks of squared masonry thrust in one place out of the turf ( a more important building than most of them ) , and how the tree-roots twist among the rubble footings of the peasant dwellings ; and one picks up pieces of twelfth- and thirteenth-century pottery — mere sherds , bits of rim , of sides , of bases , but all datable : nothing later than the Black Death , when the great silence descended . |
| 23 | The eleventh-century punishment for causing inflation by reducing the value of coins ( usually by using base metals or clipping off pieces of silver ) was the loss of the right hand and castration . |
| 24 | A party of people sets out on a journey with all its different components like the jumbled up pieces of a jigsaw puzzle , Sophia thought , waiting for something — some event or just the passing of time — to fit them together into a whole . |
| 25 | These fish bite off pieces of coral with their beak-like teeth , to eat the living polyps inside . |
| 26 | Their fate is being decided in the United Nations , by the committees which endlessly discuss and debate and churn out pieces of paper that nobody seems to read . |
| 27 | Ikonize is a screen capture utility specifically designed to allow you to cut up pieces of displayed graphics and use them for Windows icons . |
| 28 | And you 've dredged up pieces of rock ? |