Example sentences of "went about [art] " in BNC.

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1 We went about a mile before they tired of the effort involved , and I did n't mean to go much further in any case because according to the map I had in my pocket we were by then in about the centre of the western spur of the Quillersedge woods .
2 At 0630 one of the boats went about a mile up river to a family which was cut off and trapped inside a bungalow with floodwater running fast 4ft deep through their kitchen .
3 he only went about a week and then he closed .
4 Kate Millett and William Kunstler went about the world protesting against the trial on the grounds that it was ‘ political ’ .
5 As he went about the country talking to young people involved with the Trust ,
6 He went about the town on foot , called on various of the sovereigns at their hotels , used his charm and affability on all whom he met — and returned to Paris .
7 I went about the camp like a man reprieved while on his way to the chaplain and the hangman .
8 Its the underhand way you went about the heavy petting and damp carry-on , Douglas .
9 Then , calm restored , they went about the business of confiscating the property of Japanese-Americans and sending them to concentration camps .
10 He went about the difficult pre-tour planning with the England management team without saying a word although he had confided in friends that he and his wife planned to quietly separate when the tour finished .
11 He bled copiously and went about the parish for a week adorned with a large piece of sticking plaster , like a clown .
12 Dyson then went about the task of enlisting support for the organisation , a process which was successful , as can be seen from the thirty-three signatories ( including Lord Attlee , the Bishops of Birmingham and Exeter , Isaiah Berlin , Julian Huxley , Bertrand Russell ) to the letter that appeared in The Times in March 1958 .
13 And this excitement , and the feeling of being involved in a half-guessed-at mystery , became her private obsession as she went about the house , visited the shops and looked after the children .
14 It was at those times , or times like the present as they went about the health-care tasks that were now so routine , that she most often brought up the question of this campaign over Tom .
15 I it 's just the attitude about th the way he went about the whole thing .
16 He just went about the business of reloading again , breaking open the shotgun and reaching into the pocket of his jacket for more shells .
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