Example sentences of "[vb base] about in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men in the audience would fall in love with the beauty of these women who did little else but walk about in beautiful costumes . |
| 2 | Mrs Rae sat at the other side of the fireplace and Madge watched her small eyes dart about in silent appraisal . |
| 3 | Dickens regards the behaviour of Mr Guppy as ‘ usual ’ in people who go over houses : ‘ They straggle about in wrong places , look at wrong things , do n't care for the right things , gape when more rooms are opened , exhibit profound depression of the spirits , and are clearly knocked up . ’ |
| 4 | And men like my husband Bernard , full of love and trust , look up to heaven with adoring eyes , victims of the phenomena of positive transference which the tortured so easily develops for his torturer , and plunge about in female flesh crying , ‘ Only procreate and all will be well . ’ |
| 5 | " I do dislike them when all the petals turn brown and flap about in that untidy way . " |
| 6 | Handel is playing on the CD and candles are lit , and the most beautiful children I have ever seen scurry about in pink and cream pyjamas . |
| 7 | The animals are often very large , and they frequently go about in great herds . |
| 8 | Walking , for example , is an activity which as we go about in everyday life we have ceased to be aware of ; but when we dance the automatically performed gestures of walking are perceived anew . |
| 9 | Here is William Wheeler , the last great encyclopediast of ants ( 1910 ) , describing Amazon ants at home : they sit about in stolid idleness , or pass the long hours begging the slaves for food or cleaning themselves and burnishing their ruddy armour . |
| 10 | Gorillas move about in small parties usually containing one large adult ‘ grey-back ’ male . |
| 11 | All move about in huge foraging columns , but each species is active during a different period of the day or night an so they share out their environment over time . |
| 12 | Static welfare losses that arise from departures from competition in output markets are set against longer-run , dynamic gains which may arise from an increase in the supply of innovations that come about in less than perfectly competitive markets . |