Example sentences of "[vb pp] [coord] [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lay beside her uncle , her brother , and several near neighbours , the fresh earth of the recent interment scattered and scuffed about the leaf-strewn path of the Necropolis , city of the dead . |
| 2 | One had toppled over , and eight oranges had rolled and scattered about the small compartment . |
| 3 | ‘ One piece of advice was to think back on the big innings I have played and think about the positive parts of those innings — picking out the pieces I really enjoyed . |
| 4 | Both simultaneously revile and embody all that is crabbed and cankered about the shaggy fag end of English culture . |
| 5 | We were both tested and forgot about the whole thing till a few weeks later . |
| 6 | In sum , one could list certain properties of housework tasks , their context , or the housewife 's approach to them , which make recurrent appearances in answers given to the section of the interview dealing with what is liked and disliked about the six core housework tasks . |
| 7 | Dorothea wiped her eyes and blew her nose and looked around her , at the overcoated figures , huddled and sneezing about the table-tennis table under the Vestry lights . |