Example sentences of "[noun] about [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fingers of light poke about in the back of the hall , casting Spiritualized 's five members ( plus Will Gregory on sax ) as shadow puppets in an incredibly static play . |
| 2 | Er minding motors outside the Arms and the Bridge Hotel every night , maybe only get sixpence or sevenpence cos there was n't that many cars about at the time . |
| 3 | Well A few cars about in the car park ! |
| 4 | ‘ Nothing too personal , I suppose , but he was throwing his weight about over the steps at the old people 's place . ’ |
| 5 | Trestles were being set up along both sides of the room , but only a few sombrely dressed ladies were seated , the rest of the company apparently preferring to mill about in the centre of the hall . |
| 6 | Nenna sat moving her feet about inside the spacious wellingtons . |
| 7 | And he had this huge cat about with the grace of erm Whiskers there with these great big waterproof trousers on and all this mud ! |
| 8 | He seems to think that it is fair that I should have first crack since I am the one who has carried the worms about for the last umpteen days . |
| 9 | But the only , I think the only course he 'll pass is mucking about course , let's see who can muck about for the next three years the most . |
| 10 | Indeed the way that things are going can already be seen in the way that the company is letting its largest customers muck about with the internals of its operation with its Concert network management system . |
| 11 | Auntie Kate , as they called the old wife , proved ‘ a dear old soul , and of course the old boy , he used to tell us all stories about over the sea . ’ |
| 12 | Interesting to have seen that young sneak thief about in the hotel , Lord Boddington switched thoughts , disturbed by memories of unhappier days . |
| 13 | Shadows and sunlight race about inside the confined cockpit while reflections of white and blue chase one another across the mirror-shiny canopy as we describe the laziest of barrel rolls . |
| 14 | As Tiguary announced the plan to the assembled chiefs , Dulé could see the scene in his mind 's eye : the fire licking up one mast , then leaping in the rigging to the other , snaking through the spars , then falling in sparks , and setting the decks to smouldering while sleepy men sloshed water about with the balers , yelling orders to one another , until , when the flames had lit up all the timbers and the ship blazed in a transparent lattice of spars and ribs , her defenders would fling themselves into the sea and the warriors would swoop out of the shallows and fall on them : it would be as easy as catching fish . |
| 15 | Like the ornithologist who has to reach an impossibly remote island by a certain day in the rainy season only to find it overflowing with ornithologists from all over the world choking the woodland tracks with cameras and tripods , trying to catch a fleeting glimpse of a small bird as it hops about in the dripping undergrowth . |
| 16 | Were all these studs about before the First Wor before the Second World War ? |
| 17 | ‘ But there were rather a lot of people about at the moorings this morning . |
| 18 | The procession filled all the space there was between buildings , so there were few people about in the street , except peering over shop-ledges or within doorways . |
| 19 | There were still a great many people about in the outer ward , but once they had passed through the archway to the inner ward the night world about them was quiet , troubled by only a few echoing footsteps . |
| 20 | Joan had taken a great liking to Alianor Woodville who , during the past restless weeks , had regaled her with colourful tales of the court in earlier days when Henry the Sixth and Edward the Fourth had played turn-and- turn about for the English crown . |
| 21 | However , the results — far from presenting a more ‘ acceptable ’ picture of English housing — bore out everything that housing experts had been warning the government about for the past few years of increasing housing cuts . |
| 22 | Not to mention the danger you put the members of the Mountain Rescue team in by expecting them to stagger about in the snow with sticks when they should be back home with their slippers on watching McGregor 's Scotland . |
| 23 | But the Guider and all the Pack learned later on about her meeting with the stranger on the seat , because at the next Pack Meeting the Guider read out a letter from Mr. Bishop , the estate agent , which said the Earl of Ferngrove had given special instructions that the Brownie Guide Pack could continue to use the Park whenever they wished , as he was quite satisfied , thanks to a chat he 'd had with one of them , that they were very careful not to leave litter about in the Park . |
| 24 | ‘ He waves his arms about at the office sometimes , ’ said Bob . |
| 25 | Pedrosa waves his arms about in the air furiously when asked if Mota could ever set a world record . |
| 26 | No birds about at the moment but they 've had a good feed of chicken , but |
| 27 | ‘ He was flashing all this money about in the Dragon . |
| 28 | T : two things to establish for the writer at the beginning of the story one the situation what is the situation * at the beginning of the story * anybody what 's the situation Douglas * have you read the story Douglas S : no sir T : ah that wo n't help then will it who 's read the story what is the situation at the beginning SS : ( laughter ) T : £ is it Michael S : Carl T : what 's the situation at the beginning simple detail situation what where what is the story about at the beginning * have you read it S : no sir T : right who 's read it * Sarah ( Walsh 1987 : 82 ) |
| 29 | Now it was in decay ; we shifted foot-baths about on the landing to catch drips from the roof , which we could get no one to repair . |
| 30 | For example , a lecturer may have irregular commitments outside the Course , or the institution , which are not easy to record in a computer ( unless complicated data structures are used ) and are even harder to gather accurate information about in the first place . |