Example sentences of "he [verb] about in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she put her coat on she could hear him rattling about in a conspicuous way with pans and dishes , and talking to Tam . |
| 2 | She gave Charles the address , and looked so happy and excited when she asked the Stage Door Keeper to get her the Wimbledon number , that he quite forgave her for keeping him hanging about in the draughty passage outside his box . |
| 3 | THIS is intense ! ’ mutters Emilio Estevez , as he flies about in a glowing car . |
| 4 | ‘ The relief ! ’ cries Howard , as he goes about in an old pair of jeans , mending the roof and painting the window-frames . |
| 5 | Again and again the nightmare rose into his mind like bile into the mouth ; he threshed about in a desperate attempt to shut it out , but again and again he suffered the humiliation , the panic , the pain . |
| 6 | So he hung about in a lonely spot one night , just where the other fellow was due to pass by — and well , Bob 's your uncle , as you so succinctly put it . |