Example sentences of "about [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Sociology , Helen Roberts reported considerable changes both within the organisation of the discipline and within the structure of the profession , seeing these changes largely as the direct or indirect result of an increased level of awareness brought about through the women 's movement over the previous decade ( Roberts , 1981b ) . |
| 2 | And then when it finishes you 've got all the guys coming out shouting and screaming and running about through the flats , the music never bothered me , it was just the you know the guys coming out after that bothered you . |
| 3 | But changes in the home could also come about through the affairs of other family members . |
| 4 | civilization come about , and in this book he gives part of the answer , and concentrates on that , and part of the answer he gives is , that it comes about through the institutions of religion . |
| 5 | However , none of us should forget the relief of misery and the ending of conflict which have come about through the changes in Ethiopia , in Angola and in Cambodia , and we should not forget the changes in Vietnam , in Mozambique and in the western Sahara . |
| 6 | A more stylish and dramatic return to English tradition came about through the Arts and Crafts Movement , which stood for integrity and truthfulness and believed whole-heartedly in the use of local craftsmen and materials . |
| 7 | Rogers was thinking about a cricket match in which he had made a good score , reliving the running between the wickets as he bucketed about between the shell-bursts . |
| 8 | " Or it is possible that exaggerated stories have got about of the valuables in Moorlake . |
| 9 | Thinking that in years of spray-painting , of darting about near the police and taunting them with their nearness , they had been caught only when they wanted to be . |
| 10 | The interest of this curious bower is much enhanced by the manner in which it is decorated with the most gaily-coloured articles that can be collected , such as the blue tail-feathers of the Rose-hill and Pennantian Parrakeets , bleached bones , the shells of snails , & c some of the feathers are inserted among the twigs , while others with the bones and shells are strewn about near the entrances . |
| 11 | Sandy was a bit cheesed off because he could n't see whether it was a man or woman running about with no clothes on . |
| 12 | I 'm not messin' about with no glasses . |
| 13 | As Tiguary announced the plan to the assembled chiefs , Dulé could see the scene in his mind 's eye : the fire licking up one mast , then leaping in the rigging to the other , snaking through the spars , then falling in sparks , and setting the decks to smouldering while sleepy men sloshed water about with the balers , yelling orders to one another , until , when the flames had lit up all the timbers and the ship blazed in a transparent lattice of spars and ribs , her defenders would fling themselves into the sea and the warriors would swoop out of the shallows and fall on them : it would be as easy as catching fish . |
| 14 | I now decided it must be my messing about with the eggs that was causing the problem , even though John had told me this was the method he was using . |
| 15 | She laughed and jumped about with the Palernians , trying to burst the bubbles . |
| 16 | You only have to mention the word ‘ bottom ’ and at a certain age they fall about with the giggles . |
| 17 | Indeed the way that things are going can already be seen in the way that the company is letting its largest customers muck about with the internals of its operation with its Concert network management system . |
| 18 | When the sheep were calmer , Kalchu and Sigarup waded out among them , slapping rumps , pushing hard against firmly resistant flanks , piling the already packed bodies tighter together so there was more room to move about with the lukals . |
| 19 | Only when we get to the seventh paragraph of the story do we hear Benn 's statement to the court , which claims that the PC said : ‘ You black bastard , this will teach you to mess about with the police . ’ |
| 20 | At one of these the Bishop of Ostia recalled the highlights of the evening when ‘ fifty reputable whores , not common but the kind called courtesans , supped … and after supper they danced about with the servants and others in the place , first in their clothes and then nude … chestnuts were strewn about and naked courtesans on hands and feet gathered them up , wriggling in and out among the candelabra … |
| 21 | It was a pitiful sight to watch him scrabbling about under the frames with that horrible thing chewing at his leg like an iron bulldog . |
| 22 | Full of energy , she went up to the attic and to Philip , in his white overalls , a brave manikin moving about under the rafters . |
| 23 | Then she burst into a paroxysm of croaking laughter , spluttering wildly , her emaciated limbs rolling about under the covers . |
| 24 | They rushed about along the branches calling out , ‘ Come and see mine ! |
| 25 | A gambler by instinct , Chéron listened to the gossip and hung about in the artists ' cafés . |
| 26 | She poked about in the brambles and wagged her tail . |
| 27 | Billy and Mary were fooling and rolling about in the sunbeams on the edge of the clearing . |
| 28 | My husband likes to poke about in the woods . |
| 29 | There was no one about in the woods , so she 'd better hurry back to the town as fast as she could . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's a very nice waterfall , ’ she said defensively , adding , in case this ridiculous discussion should end in argument , ‘ I wonder who was creeping about in the woods ? ’ |