Example sentences of "about on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for cutting it away , it was obvious that to wander about on the other side of the rampart was to invite certain death . |
| 2 | Hanging about on the other side of the open door , you wanted to screech then run . |
| 3 | And a similar state of affairs had meanwhile come about on the other side of the lines . |
| 4 | Corbett remained sitting for hours following various trains of thought whilst Ranulf , having seen his son , was bouncing about on the broad , silk-canopied bed of Mistress Semplar . |
| 5 | Their heads thrash about on the bloodied floor , gnashing their teeth and foaming at the mouth . |
| 6 | It became clear from their phrases that this was a boating group come to sail about on the nearby natural lake . |
| 7 | As their 35ft yacht , the Blue Doublet , bobbed about on the choppy waters , Commander Tim Laurence finally plucked up the courage to pop the question . |
| 8 | Once built , the nests are lined with tightly packed leaves which act as insulation and the hedgehogs are then ready to sleep the winter away , occasionally waking and wandering about on the off chance of finding a meal . |
| 9 | As he was n't friendly with anyone present he had no occasion to speak to others waiting about on the white gravel . |
| 10 | Behind her , in the shadows , she could hear Florence making odd , bad-tempered cow-noises as she shifted about on the hard floor . |
| 11 | The bird 's darting eye sought his frantically before it glazed ; he thought as it twitched about on the hard dry clods that he might break its neck to bring its death throes to an end . |
| 12 | Bearing in mind the narrowness of the border and the thickness of the paste , it is best to use a fairly small brush ( 25–50mm ) in one direction to prevent the border from sliding about on the pasting table . |
| 13 | Fortunately she had managed to read quickly through her own piece , which looked really professional , but she wondered what J.D. was thundering about on the editorial page . |
| 14 | There is a very basic hostel here , for serious , long-range walkers , and in summer you can hire horses or ponies to ride about on the surrounding , pine-covered hillsides . |
| 15 | Across the bridge in Aberfeldy more people than usual were standing about on the dried mud of the half-built streets . |