Example sentences of "about [prep] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The gods have no imagination , ’ he said , stepping out of the tub on to the towels spread on the rugs before his glass , and turning himself about beneath Langholme 's ministering hands . |
| 2 | They should not play about with people 's livelihoods . |
| 3 | THERE 'S not much to sing about in Britain 's current economic climate — but you would never know it . |
| 4 | RED GUARD IT 'S hats off to Alex Ferguson as he gets out and about in Moscow 's Red Square |
| 5 | If there is anything to quibble about in Wilson 's thorough and engaging study which also relies on an extensive body of secondary material , as reflected in the footnotes and excellent up-to-date bibliography , it is in the section relating to the musical sources of the lauda in the 15th and early 16th centuries . |
| 6 | During the practice , Prost had been impressed by both the McLaren and the Williams and his worst fears were confirmed as Senna pulled inexorably away and the multi-coloured Williams of Nigel Mansell began to move about in Prost 's mirrors . |
| 7 | Words from the letters banged about in Thérèse 's head , just above her eyebrows she pictured them , as she dripped melted butter from the little saucepan on to the yellow puddle of egg yolks . |
| 8 | Sadly I have found very little else to get excited about in Pocket 's first year 's titles ( except another Virginia Andrews ™ in September ) . |
| 9 | Marnya was always about in Cley 's chambers as a silent presence . |
| 10 | They could hear Doctor McCann moving about in Una 's bedroom overhead . |
| 11 | This time Vidor wanted to take up the notion of co-operatives which he had read about in Reader 's Digest . |
| 12 | We then heard an exposition of what being a Sufi was about from Nazir 's own brother — and he suggested that this was no more and no less than what being a truly spiritual Muslim was about . |
| 13 | FROM the political activists to the ‘ do n't cares , do n't vote ’ the team from As It Happens are out and about on America 's streets . |
| 14 | She and Paula , who was in the sixth form , had struck up a close relationship ; when Louise was not occupied in tantalising and inflaming some poor young man she and Paula were always together , drinking endless cups of espresso coffee to the accompaniment of Elvis and Cliff and Tommy Steele on the juke-box in the Black Cat Coffee Bar , haring about on Louise 's smart little Lambretta scooter , or simply spending an evening painting one another 's toenails , plucking one another 's eyebrows and generally trying to make themselves even more fatally attractive to the opposite sex , which , without doubt , they already were . |
| 15 | Behind the gothic-arch pigeon hole , counting out change , she saw the man in boots , the man who had hung about at Faith 's funeral . |
| 16 | I noted last week , while I hung like the average orang-outang from a strap in a train on the London underground , gazing about at travellers ' knitteds , that many of them had cuffs rolled up . |
| 17 | His earlier refusal to play the party game had led the political establishment to ignore him , and their view was now reinforced by the problems for public order brought about by Mosley 's street-corner politics . |
| 18 | If , as seemed likely , one cause of unemployment was an excess of savings over investment , the equalisation of decisions to save and decisions to invest could be brought about by Labour 's plans for progressive taxation which would redistribute income to the poorer sections of society . |
| 19 | Yet this state of affairs has surely not been brought about by Wigner 's intervention . |
| 20 | Because the transformation of repentance is always brought about by God 's power , rather than our efforts , the images in these parables speak of God 's generous giving . |