Example sentences of "be [v-ing] about for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 2 | ‘ But it is such a useful box , ’ she said , ‘ I have been looking about for one like it . |
| 3 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |
| 4 | You 've been mooning about for a few weeks , ’ she chuckled , ruefully . |
| 5 | But the point is what I 'm saying is if we could get that stuff there on Friday afternoon and get the the conveyor set to where you want 'em , because I do n't know what leads you want the lorry got there on Monday morning , wants unloading , and we 're flying about for damn leads , we we 're gon na be in trouble . |
| 6 | He recalls the efforts he made to acquire a p-38 : ‘ A Lightning that I had been pondering about for some time was owned by a chap called Merril Wayne , who ran an airline called Wayne Airlines up in Anchorage , Alaska . |
| 7 | The village is fascinating ; the sort of place the press have been raving about for the past four years when they talk about ‘ unspoilt Turkey ’ . |
| 8 | There will also be some kind of performance boost for DB2 — either more microcode or conceivably the dedicated DB2 processor that IBM has been speculating about for 10 years now . |
| 9 | We were hanging about for 19 hours altogether . ’ |
| 10 | Barclays Bank in Britain has been casting about for months for a chief executive . |
| 11 | And this gentleman in West Yorkshire would certainly have the blessing of many if he carried out his idea : ‘ Having taken early retirement , I am casting about for some way to supplement my pension . |
| 12 | De Craon is snuffling about for the juicier morsels , then it 's back to Paris and heigh ho for Rome and our Holy Father . ’ |
| 13 | There are also stressed forms , / / and / / , used when the word is emphasised or used by itself when the speaker is casting about for a substantive . |
| 14 | Mistakenly , he had agreed to let Brompton-Smiley travel with him in the Rolls and discuss the matter of some urgency he had been whining about for the last two days . |
| 15 | He thought I was lashing about for excuses . |
| 16 | As she was poking about for more loot I glanced back at Granny and saw that the sheet had moved again . |