Example sentences of "mess around [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The charge is that he allowed domestic inflation to get out of control and messed around with the exchange rate when he should have been applying the monetarist remedy . |
| 2 | We knew they had to go so we messed around with it . |
| 3 | ‘ I messed around with it and got into this thing of splitting up the amps because I always thought that the guitar was a bit flat in mono . |
| 4 | I wish there was a abetter metaphor , but like Pink Floyd we could have made music about what was really going on in my head and messed around with what being a pop star was all about . ’ |
| 5 | He messed around with me emotionally , through dropping those bombshells of feeling — concerning my father , amongst other things — that I have alluded to before . |
| 6 | He messed around with health , and look at the mess we are in . |
| 7 | ‘ I mess around with motor-bikes actually . ’ |
| 8 | Mess around with your make up . |
| 9 | I do n't I mean I do n't think really the majority of people who mess around at Halloween understand what what is really going on . |
| 10 | When I suggest to Hopkins that many abductees could in fact be drawing on repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse and , as a result of bad hypnosis , end up believing mistakenly that they were messed around with by aliens instead , he agrees it 's a possibility , but then argues that some cases of childhood sexual abuse may in fact be alien abductions . |
| 11 | To mess around with them is to court death , to allow them to be messed around with is a breach of our social duties towards each other … |
| 12 | The sun , having messed around with all the colours that Keats and Shelly were so big on , decided at last to give the rosy-fingered routine a bit of a miss and go for the full Colditz searchlight . |
| 13 | In fact , it was rumoured that one of the Mill Hill guys had had his brain messed around with by the visitor who screwed up the landing in the Hebrides . |
| 14 | People might 've messed around with it by putting this overhead profit to risk , they might 've put a negative er element in there , er they might 've put a high-cost element in there , they might put nought in there , so it 's very difficult to recognise that , that bill rates er from the labour , or the labour from the bill rate , there is n't a standard relationship , nowhere near . |
| 15 | Is it because this package has been messed around with ? |
| 16 | Yeah , she 's great — she has split up from her husband and works for her and the kids , a really independent woman who 's been messed around by men and is now looking after herself . |
| 17 | She was a singer in a band which was on the verge of big pop success when the group started to be messed around by the men in suits . |
| 18 | Before he came along we 'd mess around with songs like ‘ Build Me Up Buttercup ’ , with me fiddling around on a little clavinet that we 'd found knocking around somewhere and Steve singing . |
| 19 | ‘ Very early on we were told you did n't mess around with food — even if it was crumbs , my mother would do something with them . |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't mess around with me ! ’ he interrupted with the savage snarl of an angry lion , making Meredith take a step back in astonishment . |
| 21 | But this is like the argument about nature and the biosphere : of whether you can mess around with it as much as you like , and expect it to survive . |
| 22 | Now , I must make this quite clear to you , you ca n't actually mess around with time . |
| 23 | But , you can mess around with the perception of time . |
| 24 | We ca n't mess around with stuff like this . ’ |
| 25 | I have to say I did my assignments I went there and back I did n't I did n't mess around with staying away . |
| 26 | Really do n't mess around with that . |
| 27 | Did you both mess around at the end ? ’ 'Well , it 's really very complicated . |
| 28 | However , if you are unsure of what to do , do n't mess around for what could be a simple job for a trained engineer can turn into a nightmare if an inexperienced user starts to experiment . |
| 29 | Anyone who once thought a 73B bus was a giant blue salamander following him down Baker Street is living proof that you should n't mess around in the medicine chest . |
| 30 | But Chris Smith sums up the make-or-break situation of the market in turmoil : ‘ The low end of the market is thinner than it used to be , and the other buyers do n't want to mess around with scrapyards . ’ |